The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2019

A couple of high-profile distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks will surely go down in history as watershed events – each for different reasons. This attacker easily located IoT devices that used the manufacturers’ default security setting. Related: IoT botnets now available for economical DDoS blasts.

IoT 263

IoT Mining Manufacturing Security 263

IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. The year started with the revelation of Spectre and Meltdown – major security flaws affecting processors manufactured by Intel, ARM and AMD.

Data breaches 71

Data breaches Personal data Access GDPR 71

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

So I kind of invested about 25 years into designing and hardening Active Directory solutions, and somewhere around 2013 or 2014, I was really invested in Azure, or cloud-based solutions. So if you both enter the room at the same time, it depends on the sequence of events whether the light is ultimately on or off. Hacking away.

Communications 40

Communications IT Security Mining 40

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

So I kind of invested about 25 years into designing and hardening Active Directory solutions, and somewhere around 2013 or 2014, I was really invested in Azure, or cloud-based solutions. So if you both enter the room at the same time, it depends on the sequence of events whether the light is ultimately on or off. Hacking away.

Communications 40

Communications IT Security Mining 40

ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

So I kind of invested about 25 years into designing and hardening Active Directory solutions, and somewhere around 2013 or 2014, I was really invested in Azure, or cloud-based solutions. So if you both enter the room at the same time, it depends on the sequence of events whether the light is ultimately on or off. Hacking away.

Communications 40

Communications IT Security Mining 40

Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Number 1 is "Mining, Resources & Energy" which had a local boom here but is now rapidly declining (down 14% on the previous year). Take mining out of the picture and the top industry ("Consulting & Strategy"), pays only 5% more than tech. Money gave us that choice.

Education 111

Education Marketing IT Insurance 111