Blog Posts Tagged with "Monitoring"
The FBI, Content Monitoring, Backdoors and Going Dark
May 09, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The FBI is working to obtain a backdoor for major social networks like Facebook and also for some of the most used communications platforms such as Skype and Instant Messaging for government surveillance, and is collaborating with companies like Microsoft, Google and Yahoo...
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Wait, What? Someone Has to Look at Those Logs?
April 27, 2012 Added by:Jack Daniel
Monitoring the performance of your MSSP is cheap insurance- the last thing you want to face is a failure of your service and the need to rebuild an in-house program. You thought getting all that data pushed out to the MSSP was a pain- just imagine trying to get it back...
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EFF Opposes CISPA at Hackers and Founders Panel
April 23, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
The fundamental problems with the bill are numerous. The language of the bill is too broad, and it's hard to know what information will actually be shared by private entities as a result of the bill, or what “cybersecurity systems” will do once they are enabled...
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Counter Terrorism Guidelines Give Authorities Vast Access to Info
April 17, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Attorney General Holder recently signed expansive guidelines for terrorism analysts, allowing the NCTC to mirror federal databases containing personal information and hold onto the it for an extended period even if the person is not suspected of involvement in terrorism...
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Webinar: Reducing Visibility Costs with Unified Security Management
April 17, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Webinar: Thursday, April 19, 2012 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST - Beyond improving your basic defenses, understand how unifying security management can maintain compliance and provide visibility into your infrastructure at a lower cost than traditional approaches...
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Understanding DevOps vs NoOps
April 15, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
DevOps represents a fundamental shift in how applications are being delivered to the new 'web' via cloud, mobile and other channels. NoOps, as some understand it, effectively spells the end of the formal silos built around development, operations and quality testing teams...
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Governments and Gaming Platforms: It's Time for Warfare
April 10, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The U.S. Navy has reported that scope of the project is to hack into consoles to access to sensitive information exchanged through their messaging services. They have offered guarantees that the spying technology will be used only on nations overseas...
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UK Proposes Monitoring Every Email, Call, and Text Message
April 10, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Law enforcement would have access to IP addresses, email addresses, when you send an email, and corresponding data for phone calls and text messages. The government has claimed this is needed to fight terrorism, but it would be available to law enforcement for all purposes...
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NSA Denies Warrantless Wiretaps Despite Evidence
March 27, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
The NSA claims it only has access to emails and phone calls of non-U.S. citizens overseas, but many previous reports that the program targets US based email records. In the 11 years since 9/11, Binney estimates 15 to 20 trillion transactions have been collected and stored by the NSA...
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Digital Posse Comitatus: Generals Obfuscate and Inveigle Congress
March 21, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
9/11 opened the floodgates to the world of warrantless wiretaps and surveillance culture we now have and diminished the lines between military and civilian agencies collection and alleged sharing of data. In the case of the NSA though, the abilities were always there...
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CIA and the Intelligence Components of Security
March 16, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
We must approach with care the diffusion of technology, and correctly size up the potential threats. As there has been increased media attention on vulnerabilities within critical structures, the same approach must be followed to manage issues with commonly used devices...
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IBM Got it Wrong: It’s Not about Adding Another Data Source
March 14, 2012 Added by:John Linkous
For the majority of organizations, information security is more post mortem than critical care. Regardless of how many billions you spend on security tools, until you fix this inherent problem in traditional SIEM tools, large organizations will continue to be breached...
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To the Cloud: Cloud Powering an Enterprise
March 11, 2012 Added by:Ben Rothke
Moving services to a public cloud means increasing your exposure to malicious attacks. This is not a potential increase, rather a definite increase. It is important to determine how well a cloud provider handles both technical and security requirements...
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Google Circumvents Browser Privacy - Why We Need Do Not Track
February 27, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
One way that Google can prove itself as a good actor is by providing meaningful ways for users to limit what data is collected. It’s time Google's third-party web servers start respecting Do Not Track requests, and time for Google to offer a built-in Do Not Track option...
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Social Media Monitoring: A Rubric for Control
February 21, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
We have become a watched commodity via all means of communication. Programs have been put together with the veneer of protecting us from another 9/11 and perhaps some of them were made with the best of intentions, but this idea of monitoring social media is half baked...
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Researchers Demonstrate Cell Phone Tracking Vulnerability
February 20, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Researchers at the University of Minnesota’s College of Science and Engineering have revealed a technique that could allow an unauthorized third-party to track the location of a cell phone using data available from cellular networks...
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