An essential guide for general and IT managers on IT security issues that affect the whole IT industry. We will cover: Security Current Security Technologies Security Awareness and User Education Social Engineering Security Best Practices Software Security ISA Server 2006 Date: 7 December, Time: 9am - 12pm, Location: …

Business Intelligence (BI) is not a product but a term that covers a wide range of products that allow a manager to make better business decisions. BI has changed over the years both in reach and formality - today a good BI system can present data on a wide variety of heterogeneous services in a robust and accessible …

Black Marble are proud to host the Northern leg of the 'Ed Gibson "On The Road"' Events tour which will take place mid-Septermber to mid-October 2006 at 5 venues around the country. The aim of the events are to raise awareness of the issues surrounding computer security, specifically Organised Crime and …

A while ago I posted about my Dell 5150 overheating. Well all the things I tried have helped a bit, but not really sorted the problem so in desperation I called Dell support (when all else fails etc. etc.) They suggested putting the latest bios on (A38), cleaning the heatsink with compressed air and making sure it was …

When installing Windows (any version) on a Virtual PC get the Virtual PC extensions installed as soon as possible. I have been installing a basic XP SP2 from an ISO image on a VPC and it has been hogging my P4HT processor, virtually melting my Dell 5150. After the basic installation I did a Windows update and this was …

First a bit of history, in .NET 1.1 any exceptions that were not handled in a background thread that generated them were just lost, you had to remember to handle them within the failing thread or never see them again. This 'feature' has been addressed in .NET 2.0 and now any unhandled exception in a background thread …

I have just watched the very interesting Ifeanyi Echeruo: Testing WPF - UI Fuzzing with InvokeStress. This gives a great discussion of the role of the tester within the development team, and no they don't 'just press buttons to see what happens'. They are there to drive quality and it is very much a development role. …

A while ago I posted on getting CruiseControl.NET working with MSTest. This has been working OK for us, but as with all things you learn a lot from living with it. So here are some tips and comments about our experiences: Watch your timeouts Many problems we have had have been due to steps in the build process taking …

I have just updated to the new release of CS2.1. All seemed straight forward, I unzipped the distribution, stopped my CS server, replaced the web home directory and then ran the cs_2.x_to_2.1_upgrade.sql script. This is all the readme said to do. However when I restarted the server and tried to login I got the error …

Following my visit to Nxtgen I have added regular expression functionality to GUITester as promised. The ClickTextTest attribute now has an optional extra boolean flag, this allows you to say if the text to match is a fixed string or a regular expression. The usage to check a textbox contains an email address: …