Monday, 06 October 2025

Last weeks successful attack against Code Spaces, an up and coming IaaS provider for the DEVOPS community, is yet another example to all of us about the importance of securing our environments as we move workloads to the cloud. As I read the stark account of what happened I had an overwhelming sense of empathy for the folks at Code Spaces.  While you can argue that they should have taken more care to protect their environment it is still unfortunate to see a company taken down by an attack. I can’t imagine how awful that day must have been, but maybe it went something like this…

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SHELTON, Conn.: NXT-ID, Inc., a biometric authentication company focused on the growing m-commerce market has appointed Daniel Sharkey as an independent director of the firm, effective immediately. Mr. Sharkey's appointment expands the Board to 4 directors, 3 of whom are independent directors. As a financial expert, Mr. Sharkey will chair the Company's Audit committee and become a member of the Compensation and Nominating committees.

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Summary: Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and IT managers may be too confident in their capabilities to ensure their organisations security and defences against a data breach, suggests new UK research commissioned by Courion and conducted by OnePoll.

UK IT Managers Increasingly Aware of Insider Access Threats but Uncertain if Risks Can Be Spotted

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The statement by David Cameron that the UK is under threat from returning jihadists will come as no surprise to hard pressed Counter Terrorist and Border Force officers working at our airports.

Here former Special Branch border control officer Chris Hobbs shows how ‘chocolate teapot’ border controls have allowed thousands of trained British based  jihadists to pose a real danger to UK security and articulates concerns held by armed police units that they may not be able to meet the threat

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