Security Awareness Posters

Security is all about awareness at the bottom line. The better you understand it, the higher your chance of "survival", and hopefully progress!
 

Enjoy the following collections of witty and amusing security awareness posters :

1, 2, 3 (you may also be interested in going through my talk on security policies and awareness with K Rudolph from Native Intelligence as well), 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

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security, information security, security training, security education

Hacktivism tensions

It was about time the freedom of the press and the democratic nature of joking with politicians takes its hit. But why with spiritual leaders? The contradictive Muhammad cartoons sparkled a lot of anger, and with the recent tentions in France all we needed was a hacktivism activity from angry muslims. Remember how the China vs U.S cyberwar was sparkled due to the death of a Chinese pilot crashing into an AWACS that was sort of "keeping it quiet"?

Zone-H is reporting on massive defacements of Danish sites, and if you take the time to go through the reported reasons you'll find out that :

"political reasons"

"just for fun"

"I just want to be the best defacer"

"revenge against that web site"

"patriotism"

tend to dominate. As far as defacements as concerned, in one of my previous posts "FBI's 2005 Computer Crime Survey - what's to consider?" you can see that according to the report, organizations lost approximately $10,395M due to web site defacements. Moreover, in some of my previous research on Cyberterrorism I've indicated the use of script kiddies for PSYOPS and how such defacements have a favorable psychologic effect on future initiatives.

And while they have the motivation to deface, I wonder would someone strike back and under what justification?

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security, information security, defacement, Zone-H, hacktivism, cyberterrorism, Muhammad cartoons, hacking, Denmark