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Yesterday, I received the e-mail below, forwarded by a friend. Usually, I don’t react on such e-mails (who do not receive daily PowerPoint files, jokes or funny messages in his mailbox?). But this time, it was quite realistic.
This is  a letter sent by a Grandma to her bank. There are so realistic facts about the [...]

The White House published a review regarding the last Christmas attempted terrorist attack.
I briefly read the document and noticed some interesting facts:

“The thorough analysis of large volumes of information has enabled a variety of departments and agencies to take action to prevent attacks.“
“Yet, as the amount of information continues to grow, the challenge to bring [...]

The principle of full-disclosure is to publish all the details of a discovered security problem (a software vulnerability). By doing this, the security researchers try to fight against the other principle of “Security by Obscurity”. Once a vulnerability has been found, the “normal” way of working should be to contact the developers of the affected [...]

In these times of crisis, many companies have launched plans to optimize their costs. Unfortunately, the management decisions often directly affect the people: staff reduction, higher pressure, increase of production rates, etc.
If no agreement is reached between the management and unions, strikes may affect some services. To strike is a right for all workers but, [...]

It is never too early to give some security recommendations! My first daughter became a fan of a book series called “Max & Lili”. Those comics books (only available in French if I’m not wrong) are written by Serge Bloch and Dominique de Saint-Mars.
Each volume focuses on a specific theme (around school, friends, family, social [...]

A few days ago, an article was posted on the (ISC)2 blog about the idea of a new CBK to cover “human factors” in security?
(ISC)2 means (take a deep breath) “International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium“. This is a not-for-profit organization which maintains, amongst others, the CISSP certification.The current certification program is based on [...]

“Swine Flu”, what a hot topic! The disease continues to progress and infects more and more people every day. Medical experts estimate an exponential number of new cases due to the summer period: We travel more across countries for holidays and meet more people, increasing the risk to catch the virus and bring it [...]

Security awareness messages must target the right persons. But they need to target them using the right words! Be sure to adapt your messages to keep them understandable by all your audience.

A security awareness is mandatory but can become quickly boring! Sometimes, a good picture is worth a thousand words. During a Google Image search, I found this one excellent!
(Source: Minnesota States Colleges and Universities)

I’m back from a local event organized in my village: “Ce qu’il faut savoir pour surfer sans risque” what can be translated by “How to use the Internet in a safe way“. I heard about this conference via the local newspaper and found interesting to attend. Not to learn new things, I hope to be [...]