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Bruce Schneier is a security legend, and posts like this one go a long way to proving just why. In this Wired commentary Schneier gives the best explanation I have seen as to why the ‘transparent society’ argument is a myth, why it is not better than privacy but rather equates to no privacy at...
Read More | Mar 10th, 2008
The Trend Micro TrendLabs Malware Blog is reporting that the volume of totally free do it yourself phishing kits available in the wild on the web had moved past the 400 mark. Ironically, some are even used by phishers to phish other phishers…
Read More | Mar 10th, 2008
According to a YouGov survey published today by VeriSign the average UK consumer is worth £10,077 ($20,000) online in terms of banking, gaming and shopping accounts. The pan-European survey on consumer attitudes to online security concludes that UK Internet users are putting as much as £361...
Read More | Mar 6th, 2008
A hearty slap on the back must go to authorities in South Korea who have arrested and charged the 41 year old ex-CEO of an antivirus software company with distributing fake security scareware. Lee Shin-ja was formerly CEO with security outfit Media Port, and stands accused of distributing the...
Read More | Mar 4th, 2008 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Mar 4th, 2008
Unified threat management specialists Fortinet has announced the most reported high-risk threats during the course of the last month, and it makes interesting reading. According to Fortinet it proves that birds of a feather do flock together as the most definable malware trend was most definitely...
Read More | Mar 3rd, 2008
McAfee Avert Labs has warned that the number of spammers which use the 'out of office' functionality of web-based email systems to distribute junk mail is on the increase. The particular technique in question, which involves spammers setting up web-based email accounts which are configured to...
Read More | Feb 28th, 2008
The Cult of the Dead Cow, the infamous hacking collective, has released a Google hacking utility called Goolag Scan that brings the ability to search the information engine for web-based data that is normally hidden to anyone wannabe with a web browser and half a brain. It does this by implementing...
Read More | Feb 27th, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Feb 27th, 2008
According to the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) while the blocking of the YouTube website over the weekend in Pakistan was intended the worldwide outage that saw the popular video streaming service become unavailable to huge swathes of the planet was accidental. Anyway, PTA spokesman...
Read More | Feb 27th, 2008
Last year I exposed a security breach involving the online collection of applications for visa documents allowing Indian citizens to visit the UK, an expose that ended up with the UK government itself being found guilty of breaking the Data Protection Act and which kick-started something of a sea...
Read More | Feb 24th, 2008
It is not often that a drunken discussion provides anything more than a hangover the following morning, but recently a bunch of IT security experts got talking while the beer was flowing and someone asked the question: what is the biggest threat on the IT landscape today? Everything from 'the user'...
Read More | Feb 22nd, 2008
