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News Roundup: Infosec 2001 unfolds
News Infosec is the UK's biggest event for computer security experts, companies and enthusiasts. Infosec 2001 began in London this week and showed that, despite many technology companies exhibiting all the symptoms of economic downturn, fears about...
[April 25, 2001, 15:15]
Photos: Food for thought on the Infosec show floor
News Is Infosec the haunt of the clean-living? Security pros walk the aisles (and the perimeter) of the show floor at Infosecurity 2007 on Tuesday, 24 April. The Great Hall at London's Kensington Olympia is home to more than 330 exhibitors at the event...
[April 25, 2007, 12:30]
McKinnon to appear at Infosec
Blog Gary McKinnon has been confirmed to appear on the hackers' panel at Infosec. In a poll of Infosec attendees, 75 percent said he should not be extradicted to the US. McKinnon, who is likely to be extradicted to the US to face charges of hacking US...
[April 24, 2007, 18:03]
Going to InfoSec? Blog about it on ZDNet
Blog It'll be highlighted in our InfoSec special coverage, but it's a separate entity with a life of its own that will live on after the show has ended. Security pros are expected to head off tomorrow for Olympia in London for the Information Security...
[April 23, 2007, 9:45]
McKinnon to appear at Infosec
Blog Comment Well, I feel it's slightly more complex than that. McKinnon never claimed to have accessed NASA systems by accident -- yet most UK IT professionals seem to feel he still should not be extradicted. One of the issues is the non-reciprocal arrangement...
[April 27, 2007, 17:07]
McKinnon to appear at Infosec
Blog Comment I'm not sure of the whole story here. If it was an accident, he should not be extradited to the US. Hey, we all need to know what any government is holding back on UFOs. What's the big secret? Al www.cybercoaching.ca
[April 25, 2007, 3:38]
High-Tech Crime Unit snubs Infosec
News The British government's new force for combating computer hackers -- the National High-Tech Computer Crime Unit (NHTCU) -- has turned down the opportunity to represent itself at a roundtable held at the UK's top conference on computer security, to...
[April 25, 2001, 9:56]
Social networking: IT vs HR
Blog Social networking costs UK businesses £6.5bn a year, according to a poll conducted by Global Secure Systems and Infosec 2008. But here's the interesting thing: according to Infosec event organiser Claire Sellick, "it would appear that most CISO and...
[January 21, 2008, 10:44]
Why information assurance is like teenage sex
Blog A great quote from a document borrowed at Infosec from Dr J Philip Evans who runs the centre for research into information technology security at the University of Westminster: Searching Google here at Infosec brought up some suggestions that would...
[April 24, 2007, 15:32]
Automated Reporting Gives Microsoft IT Security Team Critical Data in Minutes
White Papers The IT Information Security (InfoSec) team at Microsoft is responsible for defending the software company's workstations from a variety of threats. In August 2006, the InfoSec team began deploying Microsoft Forefront Client Security on the company...
[June 20, 2007, 1:00]
Oracle to join Jericho forum
Blog ZDNet UK has heard a rumour at the Infosec conference -- apparently Oracle is just about to sign up to the Jericho forum. Oracle's identity management evangelist Des Powley is going to be speaking at the Jericho forum event at Infosec -- a sign...
[April 24, 2007, 12:35]
European information security specialists 'justifying existence'
Talkback If infosec professionals are having to justify their existence because management has finally noticed them, that's good news. Unfortunately, though, infosec professionals forget all too often about the latter - and being forced to justify their...
[October 18, 2005, 0:10]
Hacking threat goes mobile
News Experts at London's Infosec computer security conference are betting that wireless computing will provide the next hot spot for hackers, virus writers and computer criminals. At Infosec there are also companies specialising in securing access to...
[April 25, 2001, 14:37]
£35,000 hacking challenge cracked
News Argus Systems organised the competition -- to break into a Web server locked down using its security product called PitBull -- to promote its products and to coincide with the start of Infosec, the UK's premier computer security event.
[April 23, 2001, 14:44]
Playing the computer hacking game
News The idea is to get people to deal with a problem when they have a security related event," said Schwartau, speaking from the Infosec security conference in London. At the Infosec conference on Wednesday, Schwartau delivered a keynote speech in...
[April 26, 2001, 14:31]
Police told: Resign to join SOCA
Blog Word reaches us at Infosec of unrest among police about the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). To join SOCA, which effectively supplants the National High Tech Crime Unit, it appears that police have to resign and become civil servants working...
[April 24, 2007, 15:12]
Department of Homeland Security wisdom
Blog From the Department of Useful Lists at Infosec comes a short anecdote originating in Washington State, where 64 national monuments and icons are listed as being potential targets to be blown up by terrorists.
[April 24, 2007, 15:24]
Social networking and portability
Blog One of the more interesting speakers at Infosec's "Locking Down Social Networking Vulnerabilities" event today - itself locked down by a power cut just as Facebook's Max Kelly was cutting to the nub of his gist - was Giles Hogben of the European...
[April 22, 2008, 16:39]
Businesses urged to plan for Digital Britain
Blog Nigel Brown, the lead for resilient telecommunications strategy at the Cabinet Office, told ZDNet UK at the Infosec 2009 conference on Tuesday that businesses should perform risk assessments to think through possible threats and opportunities...
[April 28, 2009, 17:05]
E-minister warns UK business of hacker threat
News The Government's e-minister Patricia Hewitt stated just how important fighting the forces of cyber-crime is to the government's vision of a digitally rejuvenated Britain at the Infosec conference in Olympia Tuesday.
[April 12, 2000, 9:15]
