Topic: SECURITY - on June 14, 2012 at 11:03:00 AM CEST
The EU Telco Plan To Have The UN 'Tax & Track' Internet Usage Goes Against Fundamental Internet Principles
We've been talking for a few months about the nefarious plan by the UN's ITU (International Telecommunications Union) to try to begin regulating the internet, and just how dangerous that would be. This is especially true as totalitarian countries have pretty clear plans to use this process to come up with ways to lock down the internet -- and potentially balkanize it. In the last few weeks the issue has been getting a lot more attention, especially in the US, where there's widespread agreement that this is not something for the UN or ITU to be involved in.
Of course, a big part of the problem is just how secretive the entire process is. Not only does it lack transparency, it entirely lacks accountability. It's a system that is ripe for abuse -- and a combination of either gullible or crafty officials seem to have no problem helping enable that kind of abuse.
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 13, 2012 at 8:55:00 AM CEST
lol - MySQL 1 Liner Hack Gives Root Access Without Password
while [ 1 ];do mysql -u root --password=123; done
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 12, 2012 at 9:13:00 AM CEST
Some Flame code found in Stuxnet virus-experts
Two leading computer security firms have linked some of the software code in the powerful Flame virus to the Stuxnet cyber weapon, which was widely believed to have been used by the United States and Israel to attack Iran's nuclear program.
Eugene Kaspersky, chief executive of Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, which uncovered Flame last month, said at the Reuters Global Media and Technology Summit on Monday his researchers have since found that part of the Flame program code is nearly identical to code found in a 2009 version of Stuxnet.
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 10, 2012 at 12:50:00 PM CEST
Australian minister leaves phone and laptop in Hong Kong to avoid Chinese espionage
Stephen Smith, the Australian defence minister, has adopted extraordinary measures to try to foil Chinese espionage during his first ministerial visit, leaving his phone and laptop in Hong Kong before travelling to Beijing.
Despite heading to China for a trust-building visit, Mr Smith and his staff reportedly swapped their phones, laptops and other electronic devices for fresh equipment in mainland China.
"We all know China, that's standard advice," a source involved in arranging high-level visits told Fairfax media. "We know ministers are targets."
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 8, 2012 at 9:59:00 AM CEST
377 Schlüsselbegriffe des US Heimatschutzministeriums veröffentlicht
Seit geraumer Zeit besteht im US Heimatschutzministerium (Department of Homeland Security kurz DHS) eine eigene Abteilung zur Internetüberwachung. Die Social Networking/Media Capability (SNMC), wurde zuvor nur temporär für die Unterstützung des DHS während dem Erdbeben in Haiti und den Olympischen Winterspielen 2010 eingerichtet, gehört seit Juni 2011 zu den festen Abteilungen des DHS. Ihr Aufgabenbereich liest sich in der hauseigenen Privacy Compliance Review wie folgt:
Since then [...] SNMC analysts, monitored publicly available online forums, blogs, public websites, and message boards to collect information used in providing situational awareness and establishing a common operating picture.</p>
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Topic: SECURITY - on May 29, 2012 at 8:45:00 AM CEST
Selling Software That Kills
The government of Syria uses made-in-California technology from BlueCoat Systems to censor the Internet and spy on its pro-democracy activists (who are regularly arrested and tortured, not to mention slaughtered wholesale.) Amesys of France and FinFisher of the UK aided brutal dictators in Egypt and Libya. Sweden’s Teliasonera allegedly took up the same cudgel in Belarus, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Georgia and Kazakhstan. McAfee and Nokia Siemens have done the same in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
Meanwhile, back in the USSA, Bain Capital recently bought a Chinese video-surveillance company reportedly “used to intimidate and monitor political and religious dissidents,” and Cisco “has marketed its routers to China specifically as a tool of repression.” You can’t help but be impressed by how globalized the oppression-technology industry has become.
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Topic: SECURITY - on May 19, 2012 at 9:14:00 AM CEST
UK government staff caught snooping on citizen data
What a surprise: the U.K. government was forced to reveal under Freedom of Information laws more than 1,000 civil servants have ’snooped’ on British citizens’ private data.
Don’t worry about hackers illegally accessing government systems. It turns out government workers and civil servants who are trusted with private citizen data are more likely to access your data illegally.
The U.K. government is haemorrhaging data — private and confidential citizen data — from medical records to social security details, and even criminal records, according to figures obtained through Freedom of Information requests.
Just shy of 1,000 civil servants working at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), were disciplined for accessing personal social security records. The Department for Health (DoH), which operates the U.K.’s National Health Service and more importantly all U.K. medical records, saw more than 150 breaches occur over a 13-month period.
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Topic: SECURITY - on May 4, 2012 at 11:17:00 AM CEST
Religious sites 'riskier than porn for viruses'
Web wanderers are more likely to get a computer virus by visiting a religious website than by peering at porn, according to a study released on Tuesday.
"Drive-by attacks" in which hackers booby-trap legitimate websites with malicious code continue to be a bane, the US-based anti-virus vendor Symantec said in its Internet Security Threat Report.
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Topic: SECURITY - on May 2, 2012 at 12:53:00 PM CEST
Frontal 21 zur VDS
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Topic: SECURITY - on May 2, 2012 at 12:51:00 PM CEST
Überwachung Total - Ist unsere Demokratie in Gefahr?
Seit 1. April 2012 werden in Österreich private Daten gesammelt: Mit wem Sie wann, wo und wie lange telefonieren ist genauso nachvollziehbar wie Empfänger, Ort und Uhrzeit Ihrer E-Mails. All das kann jederzeit und ohne richterliche Genehmigung ausgeforscht werden. Wenn Sie nun denken, das sei alles halb so schlimm, weil Sie ja nichts zu verbergen haben, dann kennen Sie die Geschichte von Michael Renner nicht, bei dem plötzlich die Cobra in der Wohnung stand – wegen einer Verwechslung während einer Internetüberwachung, wie sich später herausstellte. Auftraggeber der Aktion war das Bundesministerium für Verfassungsschutz und Terrorismusbekämpfung.
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Topic: SECURITY - on May 2, 2012 at 8:28:00 AM CEST
Terror Genius Hid His Schemes in Porn Files
On May 16 last year, a 22-year-old Austrian named Maqsood Lodin was being questioned by police in Berlin. He had recently returned from Pakistan via Budapest, Hungary, and then traveled overland to Germany. His interrogators were surprised to find that hidden in his underpants were a digital storage device and memory cards.
Buried inside them was a pornographic video called "Kick Ass" -- and a file marked "Sexy Tanja."
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Topic: SECURITY - on April 30, 2012 at 7:43:00 AM CEST
Privacy for anyone anywhere - Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 0.11, is out.
Tails is a live DVD or live USB that aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to:
use the Internet anonymously almost anywhere you go and on any computer:
all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the Tor network;
leave no trace on the computer you're using unless you ask it explicitly;
use state-of-the-art cryptographic tools to encrypt your files, email and instant messaging.
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