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ISPs raise the stakes on DDoS attacks
News Director of incident response for Cable and Wireless Richard Starnes agreed that customers should pay for DDoS protection. We get put into this position that ISPs should do more to promote anti-spam and antivirus," said Starnes.
[November 30, 2004, 11:45]
Clarke joins latest cyberterror debate
News Last year, the UK president of the Information Systems Security Association Richard Starnes said that cyberterror was not yet a reality. Cyberterrorism is a word that the press loves because it gets people to read stories," Starnes said.
[February 11, 2005, 13:25]
Online protection rackets target clearing houses
News According to Richard Starnes, director of incident response for Cable and Wireless, hackers will start taking down the Web sites of these companies unless they pay a ransom. These attacks are only launched at companies that rely 80 or 90 percent on...
[October 21, 2004, 16:10]
Security experts give charities a hand
News Let's give something back to the community," said Richard Starnes, ISSA's UK president. Starnes added that the security body is setting up a mentoring programme for school and university leavers who want to work in security.
[September 22, 2004, 17:50]
Court case shines light on security ethics
News This is a controversial subject," said Richard Starnes, president of the Information Systems Security Association UK. Patches can be difficult to develop and often take between three and six months to perfect, Starnes said.
[January 13, 2005, 12:45]
Microsoft UK turns to FBI for security advisor
News Gibson's appointment was welcomed by Richard Starnes, president of Information Systems Security Association UK. He's well respected with a good international reputation," said Starnes. After a six-month search Microsoft UK has chosen a new security...
[May 23, 2005, 12:30]
MPs slam UK ID card proposal
News If identity verification is a "subsidiary issue", there will be doubts about the validity of the card, according to Richard Starnes, president of security industry group ISSA UK. It bypasses the primary purpose of the scheme," said Starnes.
[July 30, 2004, 13:15]
Super-Asbos planned for cybercriminals
News It would be a good piece in the law-enforcement arsenal, if judiciously used," said Richard Starnes, president of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA). The judicial process is there for a reason — to prevent the State from abusing...
[July 18, 2006, 14:00]
Police to give cybercrime-fighting courses
News This way they might lose half the people they're looking to get, but the initiative is something I applaud.Richard Starnes, UK president of the Information Systems Security Association, was critical of the Metropolitan Police for not funding the...
[January 19, 2005, 12:20]
ISS slammed for 'selling' security patches
Talkback Richard Starnes apparently hasn't heard of much, if he's never heard of this practice before. For example, Checkpoint has been doing this for as long as I can remember, going back to the service packs for Firewall-1 3.0b.
[March 31, 2004, 16:10]
Security organisation's Web site hacked
News In mid-December we switched to a different server and upgraded the software," said Richard Starnes, president of the ISSA UK. The ISSA UK Web site, which is sponsored by security companies Sophos, (ISC)2 and Websense, was hacked on January 7th...
[January 24, 2005, 14:20]
TippingPoint goes public with Zero Day flaws
News Vulnerabilties can be publicly disclosed by researchers if they get impatient about the time taken between vulnerabilties being disclosed to the vendor, and patches being made available," said Richard Starnes, president of the Information Systems...
[September 1, 2006, 15:45]
Why security is an information problem
News Also speaking in the panel discussion around the issue of hacking was Richard Starnes, Cable & Wireless director of incident response. Speaking at the ZDNet UK IT Priorities Conference held in the Park Lane Hotel, London, Simon Perry, VP security...
[September 28, 2004, 17:45]
Cyberterrorism a reality 'in two years'
News Yesterday at the conference, director of incident response for Cable & Wireless Richard Starnes said that cyberterrorism was an over-used term. Cyberterrorism could become a reality in 2006, a leading UK information security expert has said.
[October 21, 2004, 13:45]
Microsoft stands firm on SP2 downloads
News My concern is that firms will see this as an operating system upgrade rather than a patch," said Richard Starnes, president of the Information Systems Security Association, UK. Microsoft has reinforced its prediction that it will distribute 100...
[September 27, 2004, 17:30]
419 spammers use Holocaust to boost credibility
News Thievery is bad enough, but doing it under the cloak of helping Holocaust victims, I really don't have the words for," said Richard Starnes, president of the Information Systems Security Association UK.
[October 1, 2004, 17:40]
Home Office 'wrong' over criminalisation of IT pros
News Everyone I've talked to in the Infosecurity community has agreed — you just can't enforce it from a practical standpoint," said Richard Starnes, president of the Information Systems Security Association.
[July 19, 2006, 16:45]
NASA hacker debate rages on
News Richard Starnes, UK president of the Information Systems Security Association, believes that the US Government wanted to prosecute McKinnon in the US as "the UK has a long history of giving lenient sentences for computer crimes".
[July 14, 2006, 12:50]
Security contractors urged to take out personal indemnity insurance
News Richard Starnes, vice president of the UK chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), believes personal indemnity insurance for most security professionals will become inevitable. I don't see why that wouldn't apply to the info...
[June 2, 2004, 15:30]
Code for MSBlast variant posted online
News Richard Starnes, director of incident response at Cable & Wireless, told ZDNet UK that the code appears to work: "We ran [the compiled code] against an unpatched XP and Windows 2000 SP3 system and it took both systems down.
[February 17, 2004, 11:20]
