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.
In 1982 Johnson & Johnson the company making Tylenol had to contend with a major financial and image problem when contaminated Tylenol capsules caused the deaths of 7 people. Investigators discovered that someone had filled Tylenol capsules with solid cyanide compound and replaced the original Tylenol bottles with poisoned ones in some supermarkets and drug stores.
What did the company do and what lessons do we learn from it?
Oh great! Its now my account that has been compromised .. ouch! Interestingly this is the first time any service provider has sent me any such notification. This may be in part because I live in Europe where data breach notification is still being debated therefore many providers may remain silent until exposed.
This is a mail I received from Spotify this evening
UK Justice Secretary Jack Straw’s hotmail account was compromised and hundreds of mails sent to his contacts in a bold attempt to get unsuspecting recipients to send money to the fraudsters, BBC reports.
This is how the scheme works
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 [...]
SANS Internet Storm Center is currently developing a web honeypot project much like the Dshield project.
Volunteer researchers are needed for the next 3 months. Request is made for 70 hours per volunteer for the next 3 months.
Skills needed (up to 4 from the list is welcome):
PHP coding
SQL
Apache
Understanding of HTTP
IIS
Technical writing (documentation)
Experience with various open source [...]
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.
