Monday, January 23, 2006

Visualization, Intelligence and the Starlight project

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Today, I came across a stunning collection of complex networks visualizations, that reminded of how we must first learn to visualize and t...

Homebrew Hacking, bring your Nintendo DS!

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Yesterday, Engadget reported about a "WiFi sniffer" that turns your Nintendo DS , into a wardriving tool and while it lacks cer...

Still worry about your search history and BigBrother?

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The Patriot Search, recently started "helping" any government by making your search activity "public". Its search synt...

Cyberterrorism - recent developments

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I've once blogged about why you shouldn't stereotype when it comes to Cyberterrorism, and going through the most recent and well r...

2006 = 1984?

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I recently came across great, and very informative slides on current, and future trends of surveillance technologies that simply stick ...
Thursday, January 19, 2006

Why relying on virus signatures simply doesn't work anymore?

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As a fan of VirusTotal and Norman's Sandbox being always handy when making analyses or conclusions, and me looking for metrics and ...

FBI's 2005 Computer Crime Survey - what's to consider?

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Yesterday, the FBI has released their Annual 2005 Computer Crime Survey , and while I bet many other comments will also follow, I have dec...
Tuesday, January 17, 2006

China - the biggest black spot on the Internet’s map

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Chinese Internet users have the potential to outpace the number of the U.S Internet population, yet, the majority of them still remain b...

What are botnet herds up to?

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Johannes B. Ullrich , with whom I had a chat once, did a great post providing us with real-life botnet herds "know how" or the...
Monday, January 16, 2006

Anonymity or Privacy on the Internet?

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Last week, Bruce Schneier wrote a great comment on Anonymity, how it won’t kill the Internet, and that it has to do with accountability mo...

To report, or not to report?

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Computerworld is running a story that, “ Three more U.S states add laws on data breaches ”, but what would be the consequences of this ac...

Future Trends of Malware

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Great news, that I greatly anticipated, my " Malware - Future Trends " research got Slashdotted . The strange thing is how my ...
Thursday, January 12, 2006

Insecure Irony

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What’s the worst thing that could happen to BigBrother and any of its puppets? – Have their confidential info exposed due to the neglige...

Security threats to consider when doing E-Banking

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E-banking, and mobile commerce are inevitable part of our daily lifes, and would continue to get more popular.  The bad thing is, t...
Wednesday, January 11, 2006

The hidden internet economy

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How much does phishing, spam and spyware for instance cost on businesses? Should we measure in cash, or hardly quantified long-term affec...
Tuesday, January 10, 2006

The never-ending "cookie debate"

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On the 6th of January, CNET reported that the web sites of 23 U.S senators use persistent cookies (usually expiring around 2035), and se...

Why we cannot measure the real cost of cybercrime?

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At the end of 2005, a rather contradictive statement was made, namely, that the costs of cybercrime have surpassed those of drug smuggl...

Would we ever witness the end of plain text communications?

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Last week, a report released by the research firm In-Sat estimated that revenues for IP VPNs will double between 2004 and 2009 to $658 mill...

Watch out your wallets!

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The irony of today's, obviously not working loan system, has left a 22 years old Chicago student in debt of $412,000 . A very scary ev...
Monday, January 09, 2006

Malware - future trends

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I'm very excited to let you know that, I have finally managed to release my "Malware - future trends" publication. Basicall...