LoyaltyBuild: Brian Honan Explains the Security Issues [Audio]
Information security expert Brian Honan joins Conn Ó Muíneacháin to disccuss the issues surrounding the revelation this week that the full, unencrypted credit card details of 500,000 people have been stolen from LoyaltyBuild in Co. Clare. Brian Honan runs BH Consulting and is a founder of IRISS-CERT, the Irish Reporting and Information Security Service. IRISS-CERT is a voluntary […]
ePubDirect is All about the Books [Video]
Here’s another video from the IEDR Net Visionary Awards in September. It’s a quick chat (less than a minute!) with Gareth Cuddy of ePubDirect, winners of the “Speed of Light Award” for the Fastest Growing One to Watch. Loading the player … There have been so many events in the past couple of months that […]
Data Commisioner Confirms Credit Card Data Was Not Encrypted
The Irish Times is reporting that the Data Protection Commisioner, Billy Hawkes, has confirmed that the compromised credit card data at LoyaltyBuild had been stored in an unencrypted form – together with the 3-digit CVV number from the backs of the cards. When first reporting the breach last week, the company had claimed that all […]
Cosaint Sonraí: Na Rialacha
Tá go leor ceisteanna inniu faoin sárú slándála ag an gcomhlacht LoyaltyBuild, inar goideadh sonraí na gcártaí creidmheasa le leathmhilliún duine ar fud na hEorpa. Tá fiosrúcháin ar bun ag na Gárdaí agus ag An Coimisinéir Cosanta Sonraí. Níl heol dúinn an scéal iomlán go fóill, ach tá beidh fiosrúchán an Choimisinéara dírithe go speisialta ar […]
500,000 Credit Cards Compromised at Irish Firm
The Data Protection Commisioner, Billy Hawkes, has sent inspectors to the offices of LoyaltyBuild in Ennis, Co. Clare, after it was revealed that the credit card data of 500,000 users in Ireland and elsewhere in Europe had been stolen. Speaking on Newstalk this morning, Mr Hawkes told Pat Kenny that the criminals obtained “full credit […]
Congregation in Cong [Video]
I met Eoin Kennedy at the Realex Fire Irish Web Awards and he told me all about CongRegation – the social media unconference he’s organising in Cong, Co. Mayo on 30 November. “You can’t get tickets for this”, he warned. “You have to blog your way in.” Sounds like a novel approach. The basic idea […]
Simple Answers
Today’s xkcd cartoon is a good one, providing some simple answers to simplistic questions about technology. Related articles Go Art: xkcd’s latest A Chrome Extension for XKCD Substitutions Lego Minifigs Will Outnumber Humanity By 2019
Mystery Malware is an Airborne Infection?
Security experts have spent the past week discussing the extraordinary claims by researcher Dragos Ruiu that he has discovered a sophisticated malware that infects BIOS, operates across multiple OSs, persists despite efforts to remove it, covers its tracks and – most surprisingly – uses ultrasonic audio signalling to overcome air gaps. It’s the stuff of […]
“If Passed, Freedom of Information is Dead”
Gavin Sheridan is a pioneer of Irish blogging, journalism and Freedom of Information. He co-founded TheStory.ie which is … dedicated to sharing documents, combing and combining data and promoting transparency in public life: An experiment in journalism and crowdsourcing hoping to shed light on the government. If you’re spending the Irish taxpayers’ money, you’re on the […]
Enda’s Slick YouTube Video
MerrionStreet.ie, the Irish Government’s news service, has just released a slick and funky video of a day in the life of the Taoiseach. What gives it a further technology ‘edge’ is the fact that they picked 30 October, which included Enda’s visit to day one of the Web Summit, where he rang the NASDAQ opening […]