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Two London, UK councils fined $100,000+ each for lost laptops..

Reported by Julien Weston of WIREDvc today, two London councils, Ealing Council and Hounslow Council, were fined over $100,000 each for failure to properly protect personal information of a total of...

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Improving Security On Solid State Drives

This post originally placed on my McAfee Blog - http://blogs.mcafee.com/corporate/cto/improving-security-on-solid-state-drives Well, One week into the Intel/McAfee relationship and I am pleased to say...

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ToastCache for EEPC/EEM v5

I finally got around to posting ToastCache to my CTOGoneWild site. This is a simple script which  uses a couple of tricks, and a kludge to force the EEM v5 Name index to rebuild on demand. The EEM Name...

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Underground Economies – The rise of Intellectual Capital Theft.

By now I hope readers have seen the latest latest report from McAfee that I was involved in – “Underground Economies” where McAfee and SAIC collaborated to investigate perceptions around intellectual...

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Mobile Device or Not? That is the question…

For the last couple of weeks I’ve been presenting around the U.S. at events such as Secure360 in St. Paul, and the McAfee Executive Summits in Boston and New York. One question I was asked at every...

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AutoDomain 5.60…

NOTE – Production-ready version 5.63 (as far as I am aware) is now available on  CTOGoneWild This version is a real departure from the 5.2 and before series, as I got rid of the dependence on IE for...

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Take Two Of These Pills And Call Support In The Morning…

“McAfee launches a range of pharmaceutical anti-viral medications to thwart the growing problem of Biological computer viral attacks” Sounds far fetched? Maybe not given that researches at Caltech have...

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Piggybacking WiFi at 60mph

I was in Madrid speaking at a conference a couple of months ago, and arriving after one of my favorite trans-Atlantic flights (you know the ones, where the ratio of screaming children to adults is not...

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Speaking at ASIS International Orlando, 20th September

For those in the Orlando area, you’ll find me presenting at ASIS International on the 20th – I’m talking about mobile security and consumerization, a topic close to most IT leaders hearts. If you’re...

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Evil Twitter… Finding malware amongst the maelstrom..

Would it surprise you to know that yesterday, more than 5000 tweets were posted with URLS which would have dropped you on sites which distribute malware? It was only a small portion of the total number...

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