The following article on preventing voicemail hacking was originally published on the BCS website: “Voicemail hacking is not new. The two main methods are guessing PINs or using spoofing to bypass caller ID-based access control. For convenient remote access to voicemail, e.g. where caller ID is not available or when the user is calling from [...]

The following brief opinion piece was originally published as an Opinion piece in Computing, on the topic of the recent large-scale Sony hacks, including of the PlayStation Network (PSN): “Over the past few weeks there has been a lot of complaint and speculation about the significant compromises of the Sony PlayStation Network (PSN), Qriosity and [...]

I provided a response to the Computer Weekly Think Tank question ‘What should corporate IT managers do to ensure data protection?’: Hacks of Google and at least 20 other companies in December prove that sophisticated cyber espionage attacks are a real and present danger. But in the light of the fact that most commercial security [...]