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Incident Response – a Personal History

Tuesday, December 24, 2013 – 09:28 Andrew Cormack Next year Janet will be celebrating its thirtieth anniversary. This made me realise that it’ll also be twenty years since I was first involved in incident response, dealing with attacks against “my” web and email servers at Cardiff University. Over that time the purposes of incident response […]

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Defamation Act 2013 – in force 1st Jan 2014

The Government has recently announced that the Defamation Act 2013 will come into force in England and Wales on January 1st 2014. Section 5 of the Act addresses a couple of problems that have particularly affected Janet customers who operate websites. First, the concern that moderating postings from third parties might give rise to liability […]

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BYOD: Doing Security Together

Presenting at the Jisc’s Safer Internet Day event got me thinking a bit more about the shared interests between owners and organisations in a BYOD scheme, and the opportunity that might present. For many years I’ve liked the idea of helping users be safe in their personal Internet lives (where motivation should be a matter […]

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Defamation Bill – Commons Committee Report

The House of Commons has published a useful summary of progress on the Defamation Bill, which will return to Parliament next week. Clause 5 of the Bill proposes changes to the current regime for websites hosting allegedly defamatory postings from third parties. When it was last discussed in the House, before the summer, concerns were […]