Security

You know how important it is to keep your company data safe. Where is the best place to store your data? Company servers, or the cloud? Most company data is stored locally on unprotected computers. 1 in every 10 laptops is stolen in the first year. 66% of us lose USB keys. And 60% of […]


June 6, 2013 - 10:00 am
Read more
photo

Encryption can be really useful when transferring data between systems, especially when this information has to travel over the internet. There are a number of ways to encrypt things and a number of different protocols that you can use depending on your needs. It doesn’t seem to be terribly well documented out on the web, […]


October 17, 2007 - 7:49 am
Read more
photo

When using cfform don’t leave the action tag blank. This simple omission could you open to XSS/CSS Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities. Why would you do this? Well if you use an ordinary form tag and leave the action attribute blank the form defaults to submitting to the page in the URL – the browser fills […]


June 20, 2007 - 5:42 pm
Read more
photo

Last week a colleague at work was interrupted by Windows asking him to activate his copy and verify his license details. It looked real and was certainly very professionally done, however there was something not quite right about it. The first screen very carefully tells you that your copy of Windows XP has been activated […]


May 15, 2007 - 8:17 pm
Read more
photo

East Anglian Ambulance Service have launched a national “In case of Emergency (ICE)” campaign with the support of Falklands war hero Simon Weston and in association with Vodafone’s annual life savers award. The idea is that you store the word ” I C E ” in your mobile phone address book, and against it enter […]


July 15, 2005 - 6:50 pm
Read more
photo

At work recently we were getting clobbered by some nasty virus or other (there are so many I cant even remember the name), and all attempts at cleanup using Norton Anti Virus were not getting us very far. In a desperate attempt we tried a demo version of McAfee Virus Scan and came up with […]


May 19, 2005 - 6:36 pm
Read more
Login
Log in below to access your courses.
Log In With Google
Forgot Password
Enter your email address or username and we’ll send you instructions to reset your password.