In the wake of the highly publicised “highly sophisticated and targeted” attacks on Google, at least three major governments have issued advisories urging their citizens to switch browsers away from Microsoft Internet Explorer. A well-known security company has redesigned their web sites to include a large ominous “Operation Aurora” graphic (that links to [...]
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It seems to be the season for defacements and hacktivity. The week began with the Cross Site Scripting attack on the Spanish EU website and the defacement hack of Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s Official site and it closes with a high profile hack of the Pakistani National Response Center for Cyber Crimes, part of the [...] 2009 has been a notable year for malware and malicious online activity for a number of reasons and several of them relate to what is known as botnets. A zombie, or a bot, is a PC infected by malware that brings it under the remote control of a criminal. Criminals run networks that [...] On the 1st of January this year German employers became subject to a new legal requirement, one that has their own Data Protection Authorities, Trade Unions and Civil Rights groups appalled. From the beginning of 2010 every German employer must now submit detailed information on a monthly basis to the so-called ELENA database, ELENA is [...] UPDATE: At the suggestion of Dan Raywood from SC Magazine I am now offering up a prize to the first person to mail me all the fish I have (kind of) hidden in the blog entry. You can win my splendid USB fridge to keep your prize catch cool. UPDATE 2: This competition has now [...] |
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