By Richard Cooper, Principal Technical Consultant for Platform Security, Her Majesty’s Government Communications Centre
Unsurprisingly for an organisation that deals with national security, we are passionate about information security at HMGCC. Communication is at the heart of the UK economy and the ability to be able …
Experientia’s Putting People First Blog has highlighted an article by Khoi Vinh on the problem with passwords:
Please enter your password, again and again
Khoi Vinh reflects on the fact (and the user experience) that almost everything on all of his computers and all of his mobile devices …
The brilliant XKCD cartoon (A webcomic of romance,sarcasm, math, and language.) has a whole riff on the lunacy of our current approach to passwords.
I’ll let the cartoons speak for themselves:
Over The Air’s David Rogers has been advising Carphone Warehouse in preparation for their Mobile Security Week which is happening at the moment. Head over to Carphone Warehouse’s dedicated security page to see their advice and David’s tips on keeping yourself secure whilst using your mobile. As developers, …
Wondering about the modern state of data encryption and the security level of mobile traffic? If you’re thinking that attention has been lagging in this area, even with the recent voice-mail hacking scandal, you wouldn’t be wrong… Check out this recent piece of news about …
Bletchley Park is renowned for its mathematics work in breaking encryption during the second world war. It is also the home of the world’s first programmable digital computer: Colossus and the National Museum of Computing. Where better to hold a security stream for Over the …
The Shaping Cloud blog has an interesting post arguing that the horde of Cloud-service-provider security experts beavering away at keeping security tight will ultimately enhance Corporate IT security efforts and speed up the adoption of Cloud services:
“Internet security will always be a valid concern and …
On his Mobile Phone Security blog, David Rogers has written a really informative article about the whole News of the World scandal, and the real nature of the hacking that went on.
Below is a synopsis, although I highly recommend that you read the full post:
Voicemail …
Given our location at Bletchley Park this year and it’s major role in the history of Cryptology, we’ll be developing a bit of a theme around modern-day security and encryption. It’s doubly a hot topic thanks to the implosion of the News of the World …
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