The Book of Ecclesiastes reads, “Using a dull ax requires great strength, so sharpen the blade. That's the value of wisdom; it helps you succeed.” (10:10) And it may as well work for information security as InfoSec seems to have many areas of practice where we’re busy cutting down trees with dull axes.
It’s all too familiar, another day another breach. And this time, it's computer manufacturer Acer which will pay the costs...
In our daily lives, we all commit our souls signing a contract of employment. Whether an employee or a contractor, similar rules apply when it comes to respecting company data and the associated data policies.
A few weeks ago, Google’s employee details were leaked by a third party company. Although this was an innocent error, it’s worth considering how much worse it could so easily have been?
We live in an age in which many if not most crimes involve a computer at some point, but we still know very little about cyber criminals and what makes them tick.
