http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/judge-orders-laptop-decryption/

Encryption != Protection is a post written by John Lawren James from Wildunknown.

Data Privacy Day 2012 is on January 28th.

There are numerous events being hosted across Canada and the US to make people more aware of data privacy issues.  You can find a list of events here, or if you are in Halifax, attend this one.

The Privacy Commissioner of Canada has also released a calendar that you can share with your teams.

Data Privacy Day 2012 is a post written by John Lawren James from Wildunknown.

There is an easy work around for Domino, add the following parameter in your notes.ini file.

SSL_DISABLE_RENEGOTIATE=1

Reference:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3555

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21430331

Fixing CVE-2009-3555 in Lotus Domino is a post written by John Lawren James from Wildunknown.

Every month they publish a newsletter directed at the typical web user.  Not those of us with a heightened awareness of security, but people like your office manger, mail room clerk or your parents.

This month’s newletter deals with how to securely set up a wireless network.

I encourage you to take a look, and disseminate it to your staff.   In fact, they even encourage you to do that.

http://www.securingthehuman.org/resources/newsletters/ouch

It is available in English, French, Arabic, Italian, Korean, Malaysian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and both Simple and Traditional Chinese.

You can now follow Securing the Human on Facebook and Twitter too.

http://www.facebook.com/securethehuman
http://www.twitter.com/securethehuman

SANS Ouch! – January 2012 is a post written by John Lawren James from Wildunknown.

The party used youhavedownloaded.com a site that scrapes torrent sites for IP addresses to find addresses owned by the House of Commons.

When you work in such a high profile, public place, even if your network administrators turn a blind eye to what you do, chances are that someone out there won’t.   Smarten up people.

Further reading can be found here:

Canadian Officials Downloading Illegal Content – SC Magazine

Copyright Infringement in Canadian Parliament – Pirate Party of Canada

Piracy in the House of Commons – Pirate Party of Canada

Canadian House of Commons Employees Downloading Illegal Content is a post written by John Lawren James from Wildunknown.

1. Achieve my CISSP certification.
2. Finish the renovations to the basement.
3. Find time to start running again.

As a ways to an end, I have joined a CISSP study group, loaded some study resources on my iPod and ebook reader, and will take the bus one day a week in order to allow myself the time during the 2 hour commute to study.

Renovations are under way in the basement.   I have the drywall up, and have started with the mud process.

Running will involve the completion of one of the other two goals I’m afraid.

Starting the New Year is a post written by John Lawren James from Wildunknown.

One of the things they are removing from the emergency rooms is the paper that lays across the examination tables.

An emergency room doctor explained that the paper doesn’t really contribute to the infection control program at the hospital, it’s only really there for patient peace of mind.   You know, so it looks clean and fresh, and through its use, convinces us that the room is clean.

Sounds a lot like security theatre.

Security Theatre in the Hospital is a post written by John Lawren James from Wildunknown.

(Even though they didn’t wish me one on my thanksgiving.)

Happy Thanksgiving! is a post written by John Lawren James from Wildunknown.

Usually, the performance bottleneck I run into is disk access.   Today, I’m trying some new hardware to see if we can eliminate that bottleneck.

Here are my first results:

This spike was the result of starting a compact -C on a database with a size of 1.6GB and 150,000 documents.  It took 2 minutes to complete.

I’ll let you know how performance continues.

Domino Disk Performance is a post written by John Lawren James from Wildunknown.

Is that what happened?   Was it a process issue, or a policy issue?

I wonder if we’ll ever know?

RCMP Camera Gaffe and Security Policies is a post written by John Lawren James from Wildunknown.