Seeing what stuxnet…
November 19, 2011 1 Comment
… was capable of, it was just a matter of time until someone take a jab to the instalations of an utility company.
More on Cyberwar
April 7, 2011 Leave a comment
Short Video from PJTV featuring an interview with Paul Rosenzweig.
Securing the Human
March 17, 2011 3 Comments
SANS Institute set up an excellent resource for those interested in computer security issues (who is not these days?).
OUCH! and other newsletters carry current information on the security issues and they are published now in several languages. I’ve put a permanent link with the badge in the right column.
Good News for InterNet Freedom
March 12, 2011 2 Comments
As reported by the National Post
Canada’s telecom regulator said Friday it will not expand its probe into Internet pricing to look at the billing practices of retail Internet services because market forces are working just fine for consumers.
A related editorial, explains why this is the right approach.
A “Free” internet does not mean that users should not be paying market prices for connectivity or services.
See my previous post.
It didn’t take very long… [UPDATED]
February 21, 2011 3 Comments
for my prediction to become a reality.
PC world reported on Feb 18 that a bunch of websites, only 84,000, were taken down “accidentally” by the ICE.
I have zero sympathy for people who uses the web to steal or commit morally reprehensible acts, however, if I can anticipate the heavy damage that a government agency with the power to shut down internet domains can unleash on hardworking and honest people,you cannot convince me that the legislators cannot figure this was bound to happen. Obviously they don’t care about the consequences of their grandstanding have for the rest of us mortals. And at the end of the day, shutting down websites doesn’t stop the traffic of child pornography or stolen intellectual property, it is just a nuisance for the bad guys that now need to go and setup another channel.
The danger for the rest of us is this, if we trust the government, any government, with the switch to the Internet, how long before the shutting down of domains is used as a way to silence dissent?
Oh wait! It did already happened? That was another prediction that turned to be right!
UPDATE
Check this Hall of Shame page at the EFF
Cyber war or hacking as usual?
February 18, 2011 Leave a comment
The Government of Canada was hit by a phishing attack from servers outside the country.
This attack follows the trend described here by RSA.
Was it in retaliation for this?
2011 at its Prime
January 5, 2011 Leave a comment
The fact that 2011 is a prime number didn’t escape the mathematical inclined minds. Moreover, as tweeted @mathematicsprof 2011 can be expressed as the sum of the 11 consecutive primes 157+163+167+173+179+181+191+193+197+199+211.
This already sets the stage for a year that, I will dare to predict, will not be easily forgotten. A confluence of processes already in motion may result in drastic changes for the world and in particular the Internet. To wit:
- Cyber-attacks can get ‘physical’ as the stuxnet virus proved,
- There is a struggle to control the internet at all levels,
- Privacy and mobile computers have compatiblility issues,
- All this against the backdrop of economical and political turmoil.
As the Chinese say “May you live in interesting times” ….
Now we are really secure….
December 7, 2010 2 Comments
That is a good idea, take your source code and give it to some guy bent on getting all your secrets to increase the security of your data:
Security Nightmare: Chinese Government Has Microsoft Windows Source Codes.
The world is REALLY in the hands of crazy people
If you think we have problems now….
November 23, 2010 2 Comments
wait until we have a smart grid powered by MS and Google and scores of hackers designing the replacement for Stuxnet.
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