tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37738444310608733702012-01-18T20:45:14.213+02:00Portal to information I've scattered around the Net.japihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033900935418571751noreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773844431060873370.post-14416092961047208632011-12-04T11:25:00.001+02:002011-12-04T13:29:59.828+02:00

Starting from November 2011 Finland has seen a few dataleaks, which have inspired many newspaper articles, radio & TV interviews, blogs and tweets. Read for example this and this to get a crasp of what's going on. Best way to dig further is to search twitterverse with #tietovuoto (#dataleak in Finnish) hashtag. That's enough about what's been happening - there's a good chance that the saga

japihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033900935418571751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773844431060873370.post-30865755892387019552011-08-01T21:01:00.001+03:002011-12-04T13:26:22.882+02:00

In my previous blog, security threats no-brainers 2011, I kind of promised continuation. I said that it would be more interesting to think what security opportunities mentioned changes would bring than falling straight into risk management mode. Yes - I know that some people say risk may be a positive thing. I don't buy that. In my thinking risk is always negative. You may achieve positive things

japihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033900935418571751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773844431060873370.post-70880393240068781042011-01-22T13:31:00.016+02:002011-01-23T13:28:37.917+02:00

As usual, there's been a flood of security predictions to start a new year. I found most of the predictions to be no-brainers, uninteresting and too much technology driven. Almost like security "fashion" we are expected to discuss this year. Worst predictions seem to be made for marketing purposes. To be fair, I've also seen some great insights of security trends/threats, but those are usually

japihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033900935418571751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773844431060873370.post-38256666260266799312010-10-17T19:53:00.008+03:002010-10-17T21:38:34.743+03:00

Social media is a good reality check for most organizations. If you need to block social media sites or update your security policies and guidelines, you know you've missed something before. Social media shouldn't bring anything new that good guidelines and controls wouldn't cover already.I've security colleagues, who have blocked social media sites in their organizations. Mostly the reason has

japihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033900935418571751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773844431060873370.post-11278795465888175492010-07-30T16:00:00.005+03:002010-07-30T16:05:40.643+03:00

Every summer I try to bike to work for couple of weeks. I have a great route from home to office and back. Here're few photos showing why. You can even follow the route from the map pic-by-pic.

japihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033900935418571751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773844431060873370.post-62405490452088652902010-07-18T12:23:00.007+03:002010-07-18T17:30:58.630+03:00

It's been great summer at Finland - almost too much sunshine for us Finns. Maybe it was the warm weather that messed my head, but I just *had* to get a new mountain bike. My old Wheeler 5900 is already a few years old and I thought it's time to add some fun to my exercise.I updated myself with latest technology and terms by buying a bunch of magazines. I wanted a good and trusted brand, maybe

japihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033900935418571751noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773844431060873370.post-20759163427345383182010-02-07T12:07:00.004+02:002010-02-08T18:44:19.807+02:00

The Net is full of top security threats for new year. Maybe I should create my own list - just for the fun of it? Let's see - I don't have any products to sell, so that won't narrow it down. Safe bets would be social media and cloud computing. It's always good to remind that it's not just criminals, but internal users are a threat also. Oh - and malware situation is getting worse every year of

japihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033900935418571751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773844431060873370.post-67429335701840979292010-01-04T20:10:00.008+02:002010-01-04T20:57:08.081+02:00

Back in 1996 I decided to put the list of books I've read on the web. I just wanted to have some regular updates on my site. I rate the books using simple color coding. Have about 400 titles listed now.When LinkedIn got Amazon Reading List application, I started to add my readings and short reviews in LinkedIn. Well - LinkedIn Reading List is available only for my LinkedIn connections. It doesn't

japihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033900935418571751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773844431060873370.post-50189946832536161442009-10-11T19:50:00.008+03:002009-10-11T21:00:48.541+03:00

Lost two hours of my life today when tried and failed to shop a new digicamera online. I found a reasonably priced camera from warehouseexpress.com to replace my fairly new, but broken Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ7. Display of TZ7 broke and I found out that it's not covered by warranty and replacing the display would cost nearly as much as a new camera. So, it made sense to cover the damage from home

japihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033900935418571751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773844431060873370.post-40101457282634156672009-08-15T11:42:00.008+03:002009-08-15T12:11:00.700+03:00

Played with Maltego. It's a powerful tool to dig out information from the net. Especially interesting is it's ability to find connections between objects. Below are couple of example graphs created, when I searched tweets with phrases "H1N1", "swineflu" and "sikainfluenssa" (swineflu in finnish). Tool shows for example which word is mentioned most, who's sending most tweets, what urls are

japihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033900935418571751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773844431060873370.post-28785428432880806662009-07-06T20:14:00.004+03:002009-07-07T16:14:51.288+03:00

Maybe I was too quick to close my Twitter feed. I think that tweets want to live free, so I opened my account again. I'll see for a while how much Twitter Spam (in form of sleazy followers) I'll start to get. Haven't really found any useful tweets yet. Twitter seems to work for fun, marketing and self-promoting mostly. I guess I have to dive in head first and start following couple of known

japihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033900935418571751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773844431060873370.post-5478545342146851632009-06-29T17:33:00.006+03:002009-07-04T12:16:18.283+03:00

I've played with Twitter a bit - just to get feel of it. I had a Twitter gadget on my homepage for a while, but had to remove it. Twitter has options to either allow anyone to follow you posts or require an approval. Gadget required to allow anyone to follow you. However, that option also attracted suspicious followers (read: porn tweets). I really don't want to show on any porn tweet timeline,

japihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033900935418571751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773844431060873370.post-37037960886844970142009-06-09T23:16:00.004+03:002009-06-09T23:36:35.236+03:00

I was worried about using term "homepage" already when I changed to blog-mode. It took just two weeks and Geek & Poke made fun about old-timers who still blog or - God forbid (note, I didn't use OMG) - have homepages. Great cartoon, by the way. I especially enjoy its trashing of SOA and Cloud Computing.

japihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17033900935418571751noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773844431060873370.post-5711791089043095882009-05-21T10:23:00.005+03:002009-05-22T08:51:18.072+03:00

I've had my web homepage since '95. I've made some facelifts to it during the years, but haven't had energy to do all HTML-coding required to keep it hip & hop.  So - I finally gave up and used an easy way out by creating this blog to be my "homepage". Why bother coding, when integrating ready-made components is enough?I probably won't blog a lot. Instead I use this page as a portal to my

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