In one of my previous posts "A top level espionage case in Greece" I blogged about two cases of unlawful interception -- good old espionage practices in modern environment. What's also worth mentioning is the rush for lawful interception in the post 9/11 world, that is free spirits get detained for singing or being nerds, activities you can hardly datamine at the bottom line, and then again, so
Wednesday, 12 April 2006
"IM me" a strike order
Posted on 03:35 by Unknown
In my previous post "What's the potential of the IM security market? Symantec thinks big" I commented on various IM market security trends, namely Symantec's acquisition of IMLogic. It's also worth mentioning how a market leader security vendor was able to quickly capitalize on the growing IM market, and turn the acquisition into a valuable solution on the giant's portfolio of solutions. What's
Wednesday, 5 April 2006
Heading in the opposite direction
Posted on 10:51 by Unknown
Just one day before April 1st 2006 I came across this article :"German retail banker Postbank will begin using electronic signatures on e-mails to its customers to help protect them from phishing attacks."Catching up with the phishers seems to be a very worrisome future strategy. Electronic Signatures by themselves are rarely checked by anyone, and many more attack vectors are making the idea of
Securing political investments through censorship
Posted on 09:59 by Unknown
I try to extensively blog on various privacy and Internet censorship related issues affecting different parts of the world, or provide comments on the big picture they way I see it.Spending millions -- 6 million euro here, and I guess you also wouldn't let someone spread the word whether the cover is fancy enough for a vote or not -- on political campaigns to directly or indirectly influence the
Insider fined $870
Posted on 09:22 by Unknown
Insiders still remain an unresolved issue, where the biggest trade-off is the loss of productivity and trust in the organizational culture. According to the Sydney Morning Herald :"A court in Guangzhou, capital of the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, has upheld a lower court's guilty verdict against Yan Yifan for selling stolen passwords and virtual goods related to the online game "Da
The "threat" by Google Earth has just vanished in the air
Posted on 08:39 by Unknown
Or has it actually? In one of my previous posts "Security quotes : a FSB (successor to the KGB) analyst on Google Earth" I mentioned the usefulness of Google Earth by the general public, and the possibility to assist terrorists. The most popular argument on how useless the publicly available satellite imagery is that it doesn't provide a high-resolution images, and recent data as well -- that's
Monday, 3 April 2006
Wanna get yourself a portable Enigma encryption machine?
Posted on 04:12 by Unknown
Hurry up, you still have 5 hours to participate in the sale at Ebay as the BetaNews reported "eBay has long been a purveyor of the unusual and the unique, but it's not often an authentic piece of tech history captures as much attention as the Enigma 3 portable cipher machine that has racked up bids of almost 16,000 euros. The Enigma device was used extensively by Nazi Germany during World War II.
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