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Here are one or two resources some of you might find useful and interesting.
Infragard and the Center for Information Security Awareness have a Security Awareness in the Workplace program that looks worth a closer look. It consists of 14 separate lessons addressing key information security issues "that can impact in the workplace". The free lessons are … Read More…

I really ought to be concentrating on some writing deadlines, but I couldn’t ignore this item, flagged by Graham Cluley, Sophos blogger-in-residence and karaoke star. (I have to say that because I was rather rude about his singing at Infosec last month.) Graham and I both live in the UK, so the state of health … Read More…

I’ve mentioned this before, but I’m still getting quite a lot of requests  to "follow" me on Twitter on an account that’s "protected". So I’m going to explain in a little more detail how this works. Or at least how it works for me…
At the beginning of the year, it was suggested that it would … Read More…

In previous blogs, I mentioned that some of the presentations from the CARO workshop a couple of weeks ago were likely to be made available publicly.
Unfortunately for non-attendees, most of the presentations are only available to people who were there: however, some can be downloaded by the public from here.
In case I didn’t mention … Read More…

Greetings, friends, fans and foes. I know it’s been a while, but I’ve been travelling, with intermittent connectivity: first the Infosecurity expo in London, then the CARO and AMTSO workshops in Budapest, then the EICAR conference in Berlin. This week I’ve been at the Channel Expo in Birmingham (the one in the UK, that is) … Read More…

San Diego is a great place to live in and visit. I grew up in San Diego and didn’t realize how good I had it until I moved to San Bernardino when I was 15.  What does this have to do with security? If you need an excuse for a trip to San Diego (or … Read More…

At the Interop show in Las Vegas I promised some people I would put the list of resources we included in out presentation on the ESET blog. These are great resources for education and cybercrime reporting. The first one is a new initiative form ESET. I’ll blog more extensively about Securing Our eCity tomorrow!

• Securing Our … Read More…

In the security community, the beginning of the summer is the time of the year when most conferences are held.  In the last couple of days, there has been the CARO workshop, the AMTSO meeting and the EICAR conference.  Numerous ESET employees have attended each of these gatherings.  In my opinion, the best event so … Read More…

After my last blog, I was asked what other EICAR papers would be of interest to people in the testing industry.
In fact, quite a few of this year’s papers were focused on anti-malware testing and/or detection, and the abstracts for the industry papers are available here, and that may give you a start on finding … Read More…

Yes, I’ve used that pun before, but I can’t resist using it again now that I’m back from the EICAR conference. I actually got back a couple of days ago, but I was sidetracked by some urgent administrivia and dental treatment. I’m having bacon and eggs for breakfast, my first pet’s name was Stuart Little … Read More…