In a pretty eventful halfweek, which saw the passage of the IPRED law in Sweden, a resulting drop in internet traffic to an increased demand for anonymizers, the Police have began raiding suspected fil sharers. This raid was reportedly a part of an international sting operation that involved raids in Britian, Belgium, Netherlands and Spain.
Following the passage of the IPRED law in Sweden a few days ago, there’s been an increased demand for anonymizing services. The Pirate Bay has for instance started its own anonymizing service called IPREDator (you get the drift). Other anonymizers are also offering IPRED protection.
The UK Prime Minister’s medical records have been breached in a series of high profile ‘data violations’ involving UK politicians and others, the Sunday mail reports. Last week UK cabinet minister Jack Straw’s hotmail account was pwned by criminals trying to hoodwink the minister’s ‘friends’ into sending them money.
For those who don’t already know, the March 2009 edition of Insecure magazine has been released.
I found these articles interesting:
Building a bootable BackTrack 4 thumb drive with persistent changes and Nessus
A framework for quantitative privacy measurement
Why fail? Secure your virtual assets
As you might have guessed, these are the only articles I have read.
When I posted the earlier article about cyber-snooping fears, I was wondering how one could use a potentially compromised OS more safely and came across Polippix.
Polippix is a bootable CD created in Denmark as protest for what the creators believed is a far-reaching government snoop in the guise of fight against terror.
Interested? Included on the [...]
Chinese authorities are reportedly mandating that a Chinese developed OS called Red Flag Linux be installed in Internet cafes in a city in southern China. The action is meant to crack down on piracy, though some are not buying it, suspecting it is part of a scheme to snoop on and stop undesirable activities - [...]
Keep your belt and shoes on, move swiftly through airport security carrying your hand luggage (carry-on cases) all in some 30 seconds!
That is the aim for a new so-called “paradigm shifting” security technology aimed at boosting airport security without the long waiting lines, CNN reports. But there is a price. You will be scanned for [...]
BlueProximity is an open source tool which uses bluetooth technology to detect your (mobile phone’s) presence near your computer. It can automatically lock your computer once you move away and unlock it when you come within a predetermined distance from the computer.
It achieves this by connecting to your mobile phone via bluetooth using the Received [...]
In its publication titled Technology-Induced Challenges in Privacy and Data Protection in Europe, ENISA (European Network And Information Security Agency) made 13 recommendations aimed at taking personal data protection more seriously than it has been in the past. I’m particularly interested in recommendations 5 and 9.
After many reported vulnerabilities and poor security practices on Obama’s web sites such as change.gov and barackobama.com, CNN reports that Obama’s phone records have also been improperly accessed by Verizon employees NOT authorised to do so.
The report quotes the President of Verizon Wireless saying “the personal wireless account of President-elect Barack Obama had been accessed [...]
