Ben joined Virya Technologies back in 2009 as a freelance contractor, providing support to our IT clients around Suffolk and Essex.  He joined our team on a full-time basis in February 2012 and leads up the IT Support team.  Ben has also been key in moving our business processes towards a completely Open Source setup, and is a frequent contributor to several open source projects.

Most businesses will create and rely on hundreds if not thousands of documents every year. We all recognise the importance of retaining these documents until we can be sure they are no longer required, but what of the other resources we use?

 

The Internet is awash with speculation following allegations that the IPSEC cryptographic stack in OpenBSD was furnished with a backdoor at the behest of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

The allegations were made by Gregory Perry in an e-mail to one of the founders of NetBSD - Theo De Raadt – and were published on the BSD mailing lists so that a code audit can be undertaken by those with an interest in doing so.

If such a backdoor does exist, it could allow the FBI (and conceviably others) to decrypt communications between servers, whether those communications take place over a Virtual Private Network (VPN) or over a Secure Shell Connection (SSH).

This whitepaper will examine the precedents for this allegation as well as the potential impact that such a revelation could have on businesses around the world.

Homogenous -

1.	composed of similar or identical parts or elements
2.	of uniform nature

 

Management love homogeneous networks; they reduce the amount of training needed, the number of IT Technicians to offer support and, of course, offer an opportunity to obtain bulk discount through volume licensing.

But in pursuing lower capital and maintenance costs, are these same managers opening their networks to attack?

 

Many, many internet users maintain their own websites and blogs. For many, these represent an opportunity to share personal thoughts and opinions on a wide range of subjects. However, does maintaining such a site have implications for the authors ability to operate within a business?

In this paper, we’ll be examining the possible ramifications of maintaining a personal ‘blog’, this could be in the form of a standard website, a blog hosted on a variety of platforms or even use of social networks such as Twitter and FaceBook.

There are very few companies that can afford not to maintain an effective web presence, even the goliaths that could survive without the added custom usually have some form of web service available. Maintaining a website doesn't need to be hard work and can provide your customers with the added value that generates sales. Many users; business and private, now use search engines such as Google to locate companies offering a service they require. If you don't have a website and your competitors do, you stand to lose countless customers.

Password theft is a fast growing business, in the age of the internet a singular word or phrase is often all you need to verify your identity. Unfortunately this token is all that is needed for someone else to adopt your identity, and potentially commit fraud or criminal acts in your name.

Email, is it a useful utility or just another attack vector? This article aims to evaluate both the risks and the benefits of using e-mail for everyday tasks.