How-to: Cloning a (Laptop) Hard Drive using DD over the network

As hard drives are growing, dying or trying to evade us, the need for cloning disks are growing fast. There are many uses for cloning disks, including:

• forensics work — you need an exact copy of…

Startup hickups: Messing up my IBM X41

I have played with the idea of installing Linux on my X41 ThinkPad for quite a while now. One of the challenges to overcome is to get things installed in the first place. Not an easy one, it seems, as my X41 comes with no CD-player, no floppy, nothing but its…

Incompetence is a killer

I hate incompetence.

What is more, I hate when professionals are incompetent.

What is even more, I hate when experts in a field are incompetent. In their own field.

Why Information Security is Hard — an economic perspective

This is a great read for anyone even remotedly interested in Information Security and the principles that relates to attack vs. defense. Most security people seems to forget that security is merely (and sometimes marrily) parts…

Review: Airlock security software for Mac

I am a gadget lover. I have to admit that. And that usually mean that I only review…

Former Head of Security at Bank of England to Give Keynote at Scandinavian ISACA Conference

The former head of security at Bank of England, Joe Peachey, will give the keynote address at the Scandinavian ISACA Conference from 22–23 April at Hotel Hvide Hus, Aalborg…

Tweetergetter — a scam?

After my initial days of trying out Twitter, I can see how addictive it can be. I am up to 40 followers in two days, and obviously I am looking into growth strategies.

Thus, when I got this message from a trustworthy contact of mine: