Blog Posts Tagged with "internet"
China’s “Online Blue Army” Ready
January 19, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
Growing up I heard numerous times that the Soviet's needed so many missiles to protect it’s vast land mass from aggressors. Everyone knew that the large missile stockpile was more of a threat than a safety net. It seems that China may be trying to play the same card...
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Internet-Wide Protests Against the Blacklist Legislation
January 18, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
The SOPA and PIPA blacklist bills are dangerous: if made into law, they would hamper innovation, kill jobs, wreak havoc on Internet security, and undermine the free speech principles upon which our country was founded...
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FBI: Russians Face Charges for International Cyber Crimes
January 18, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Vladimir Zdorovenin and his son engaged in serial cyber crimes in Russia that targeted Americans and wrought havoc with their personal and financial information, using it to make phony purchases and to manipulate stock prices...
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Why I Won’t Teach You To Track Terrorists Online
January 17, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
This is an organic process. I learned by just doing it and in the process of “doing it” I had to learn A LOT of other things apart from technology issues like hacking/security/coding etc. Remember you are dealing with PEOPLE and you have to be adept and reading them...
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SOPA/PIPA: The Internet Goes to Washington on January 18
January 13, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Representative Darrell Issa, an outspoken SOPA critic and the author of alternative legislation called the OPEN Act, has announced that Congress will hold a hearing to hear from actual technical experts, technology job creators, Internet investors and legal scholars...
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Data Loss Prevention Step 4: Prevent Network Cross-Connect
January 11, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Preventing network cross-connect used to be simple as making sure your VPN client wasn't able to perform split-tunneling so malware couldn't bounce to your corporate office. If your corporate office is virtual all that stopped mattering...
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US vs The World - The Cyber Monroe Doctrine
January 10, 2012 Added by:Don Eijndhoven
Not unlike other testimonies on the subject of Cyber Warfare and Cyber Doctrine coming from the US, we see a very 'red-blooded American' attitude seeping through, and quite frankly that's not helping matters...
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ICS-CERT: Control System Internet Accessibility Advisory
January 09, 2012 Added by:Headlines
The use of readily available and generally free search tools significantly reduces time and resources required to identify Internet facing control systems. In turn, hackers can use these tools to easily identify exposed control systems, posing an increased risk of attack...
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Autumn Spring: A Philosophical Look at the Internet
December 28, 2011 Added by:Richard Thieme
Internet pioneers such as J. C. R. Licklider, saw what would happen when we plugged computers into one another: We will live in a human-computer symbiosis, a coupling of symbol-manipulating networks that will be much greater than the sum of its parts...
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Chrome Most Secure? Depends on Your Frame of Reference
December 21, 2011 Added by:Ed Moyle
Until recently Chrome supported SSL 2.0 by default (seems like a major no-no in my humble opinion) and the fact that Firefox is the only one of the big three to have OCSP checking enabled by default. This aspect of "browsing security" is a "score one" for Firefox in my estimation...
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Illegal Movie Upload Yields Federal Prison Sentence
December 21, 2011 Added by:Headlines
“The federal prison sentence handed down in this case sends a strong message of deterrence to would-be Internet pirates. The Justice Department will pursue and prosecute persons who seek to steal the intellectual property of this nation..."
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Plagiarism in IT Security - Walking a Fine Line
December 09, 2011 Added by:Rafal Los
At the end of the day, shouldn't we all be professionals? I know it's nice to think that everyone is honest - but as the infosec world expands and there is a massive influx of people trying to make a name for themselves - there will be dishonesty. This is where the community comes in...
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Is Al Qaeda’s Internet Strategy Working?
December 07, 2011 Added by:Stefano Mele
While almost all terrorist organizations have websites, al Qaeda is the first to fully exploit the Internet. This reflects al Qaeda’s unique characteristics. It regards itself as a global movement and therefore depends on a global communications network to reach its perceived constituents...
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Top Ten Most Easily Guessed Passwords
November 21, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Are you using the password “password” or “123456″? If so congratulations, you are using one of the top two worst and easiest to guess passwords on the internet. Splashdata creates an annual list of the worst passwords to use on the net, and here are the top 10 for 2011...
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Trust: A Rare Commodity Online
November 09, 2011 Added by:Robert Siciliano
Dishonesty poses a challenge to banks and retailers in the form of theft. Theft is a big problem on the Internet, and any online business knows that they can’t afford to trust you, regardless of how honest you may be. The FFIEC recently instructed retailers and banks to enhance their security...
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Balkanizing the Internet
November 01, 2011 Added by:Gabriel Bassett
The internet is really not one contiguous environment. Instead, due to the nature of service contracts and peering agreements, it's a mesh of interconnected information systems. These information systems are already undergoing a balkanization as we speak...
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