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.
On April 1 Sweden passed the EU directive called IPRED (Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive) into law. That same day, internet traffic dropped by 30% according The Local, an online newspaper. The law will allow courts to order ISPs to hand over information that identify suspected illegal file sharers. The belief is that commercial infractions of intellectual property law within the EU will eventually be criminalised.
A woman from Gothenburg, Sweden logs into her internet bank to pay some bills only to find more than $1 BILLION (yes you read right) in her account - a local news website reports.
F-Secure has published the IT Security Threat summary for the second half of 2008.
Summary:
Growth in amounts of malicious software
Growth in infections
Growth in the number of botnets
Growth in criminal profits
Call for growth in punishment
Highlights:
On Botnets infections
During 2008 our Response Lab conducted a small research project focusing on approximately 60 orphaned botnets. Listening to the communication attempts [...]
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 [...]
TrendMicro reports having found what could be a rootkit in an enterprise infosecurity software. The rootkit-churning vendor is the same one that published Sony MicroVault USM-F fingerprint reader discovered last year. What other products has this vendor shipped?
Many are the articles suggesting ways by which departments can make the most of shrinking budgets in these hard times. If you are a small company, allocating funds for all the security resources you need can prove very challenging. You need to be smart about security spending. Therefore security tools that just do the work for as little as possible is a ‘must consider’.
