War on Error tag:blogs.techworld.com,2009-06-25:/war-on-error//24 2013-05-03T18:21:59Z One day they'll laugh at what we think is secure. Thankfully, we won't be there to hear them... Movable Type Enterprise 4.38 FinFisher: legitimate spy program or dubious commercial malware? tag:blogs.techworld.com,2013:/war-on-error//24.15791 2013-05-03T16:03:46Z 2013-05-03T18:21:59Z Is the FinFisher suite legitimate surveillance or software’s Dr Strangelove? The UK is a bulwark against cybercrime, noted the world over for its respect for the principles of law and order; except that is when a British-based firm is accused... John E. Dunn Is the FinFisher suite legitimate surveillance or software’s Dr Strangelove? The UK is a bulwark against cybercrime, noted the world over for its respect for... Scotland's Internet startups still firing on one cylinder tag:blogs.techworld.com,2013:/war-on-error//24.15787 2013-05-01T16:05:05Z 2013-05-02T09:00:55Z Now that Silicon Glen is a memory Scotland needs more than worthy aspirations Internet startups can look effortless. Google surfaced like an information leviathan from the genius factory of Stanford University, Facebook came out of a dorm room full... John E. Dunn Now that Silicon Glen is a memory Scotland needs more than worthy aspirations Internet startups can look effortless. Google surfaced like an information leviathan... Did a 300Gb/s DDoS really slow the Net? Only if you believe in Smurfs tag:blogs.techworld.com,2013:/war-on-error//24.15717 2013-03-28T18:09:26Z 2013-03-28T18:52:44Z Lock up your DNS - the little blue men are back.A day on from what was only yesterday being described as a DDoS attack so large it had slowed the Internet itself, the sceptics have rallied with a simple question:... John E. Dunn Lock up your DNS - the little blue men are back.A day on from what was only yesterday being described as a DDoS attack so... Will China's techies go near Canonical's 'Kylin' Linux? tag:blogs.techworld.com,2013:/war-on-error//24.15704 2013-03-25T18:18:24Z 2013-03-26T09:11:03Z Linux in China, Ubuntu styleRecent history is strewn with the corpses of national operating system projects and it is probably too early to tell whether Canonical's Ubuntu ‘Kylin’ collaboration with China’s Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (CSIP) will... John E. Dunn Linux in China, Ubuntu styleRecent history is strewn with the corpses of national operating system projects and it is probably too early to tell whether... SCADA's frighteningly exposed underbelly tag:blogs.techworld.com,2013:/war-on-error//24.15693 2013-03-21T16:35:49Z 2013-03-21T18:09:24Z Industrial control systems and SCADA are under attack but from who or what?According to a Trend Micro researcher who decided to find out by setting up an be Industrial Control Systems (ICS) SCADA honeypot that mimicked among other things an... John E. Dunn Industrial control systems and SCADA are under attack but from who or what?According to a Trend Micro researcher who decided to find out by setting... Google's Chromebook - from vanity project to stealthy Windows killer tag:blogs.techworld.com,2013:/war-on-error//24.15690 2013-03-20T17:36:15Z 2013-03-20T18:49:58Z How on earth did this happen? By its own high standards, Microsoft’s Windows 8 juggernaut is in a bit of a sales fix while a Google OS/Chromebook platform few consumers had even heard of six months ago is suddenly just... John E. Dunn How on earth did this happen? By its own high standards, Microsoft’s Windows 8 juggernaut is in a bit of a sales fix while a... Iran v USA - the world's first cyber-war has started tag:blogs.techworld.com,2013:/war-on-error//24.15542 2013-01-15T16:20:23Z 2013-01-16T09:48:44Z John E. Dunn ... ]]> New Year resolution 2013 - ditch Java tag:blogs.techworld.com,2013:/war-on-error//24.15510 2013-01-02T16:58:57Z 2013-01-15T17:21:03Z Not even Oracle’s recent security overhaul to Java Development Kit 7, Update 10 (JDK 7u10) deserves to save its seat on the average non-business PC, a slew of informed experts have argued. I'm not about to disagree.We’ve written about Java... John E. Dunn Not even Oracle’s recent security overhaul to Java Development Kit 7, Update 10 (JDK 7u10) deserves to save its seat on the average non-business PC,... 'Eurograbber' SMS attack shows Android's vulnerability tag:blogs.techworld.com,2012:/war-on-error//24.15491 2012-12-14T11:08:57Z 2012-12-14T15:01:40Z We end 2012 with the alarming knowledge that the SMS two-factor authentication systems used to secure online banking have suffered their first major security failure and left a clutch of banks down to the tune of €36 million (£30 million).Between... John E. Dunn We end 2012 with the alarming knowledge that the SMS two-factor authentication systems used to secure online banking have suffered their first major security failure... Did Windows 8's Metro interface cost Steven Sinofsky his job? tag:blogs.techworld.com,2012:/war-on-error//24.15397 2012-11-13T09:52:56Z 2012-11-13T12:21:00Z Barley two weeks after the launch of Windows 8, the operating system’s chief architect and long-serving employee Steven Sinofsky is leaving Microsoft, it has been confirmed.Let's be frank. This is a huge shock no matter how Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer... John E. Dunn Barley two weeks after the launch of Windows 8, the operating system’s chief architect and long-serving employee Steven Sinofsky is leaving Microsoft, it has been... Flame is good, too good. Is Cyberwar now in the hands of Dr Strangelove? tag:blogs.techworld.com,2012:/war-on-error//24.14977 2012-06-11T12:45:06Z 2012-06-12T13:57:22Z Surely the security experts and vendors should be delighted by the sudden and shocking outing of Stuxnet as part of a US Government malware programme?Long suspected of having been developed by a well-resourced state full of old-school Highway 101 programmers... John E. Dunn Surely the security experts and vendors should be delighted by the sudden and shocking outing of Stuxnet as part of a US Government malware programme?Long... Why Apple and Amazon should pay more tax tag:blogs.techworld.com,2012:/war-on-error//24.14788 2012-04-10T17:57:42Z 2012-04-11T16:49:34Z Image via CrunchBase Last week Amazon was publically named as talented avoider of UK Corporation tax and this week it’s Apple’s turn. According to The Daily Mail, the US giant that generated sales approaching $10 billion in the UK last... John E. Dunn Image via CrunchBase Last week Amazon was publically named as talented avoider of UK Corporation tax and this week it’s Apple’s turn. According to The... Hackers spam Ticketweb users after email breach tag:blogs.techworld.com,2012:/war-on-error//24.14585 2012-02-13T14:50:07Z 2012-02-13T14:52:28Z Customers of the Ticketweb online ticketing site have been receiving fake emails after hackers broke into the company’s servers at the weekend, the company has admitted.In an email sent to its customer database the following day, the Ticketmaster subsidiary said... John E. Dunn Customers of the Ticketweb online ticketing site have been receiving fake emails after hackers broke into the company’s servers at the weekend, the company has... Microsoft offers access to anti-botnet system tag:blogs.techworld.com,2012:/war-on-error//24.14459 2012-01-12T16:51:10Z 2012-01-12T17:02:48Z At last the world’s most effective but ignored digital police force, Microsoft, has said it plans to give third-parties including CERTs, ISPs and even foreign governments automated access to its formidable botnet intelligence feeds through an API.As an article written... John E. Dunn At last the world’s most effective but ignored digital police force, Microsoft, has said it plans to give third-parties including CERTs, ISPs and even foreign... Comet has some explaining to do but so does Microsoft tag:blogs.techworld.com,2012:/war-on-error//24.14438 2012-01-05T17:30:34Z 2012-01-05T17:46:40Z The irony of Microsoft launching a legal action over illegal operating system recovery disks against UK retail chain Comet in the very week it announced a feature in Windows 8 that will render them largely obsolete deserves special mention. The... John E. Dunn The irony of Microsoft launching a legal action over illegal operating system recovery disks against UK retail chain Comet in the very week it announced...