Thursday, February 22, 2007

Image Blocking in Email Clients and Web Services

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Handy graphs and best practices on the state of default remote image loading in desktop and online email clients -- a problematic issue fro...

Korean Zombies Behind the Root Servers Attack

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More details on the recent DDoS attacks on the DNS root servers emerge, seems like the attacks originated from Sourth Korean infected PC s, ...
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

The Phishing Ecosystem

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Phishing is the efficient case of online social engineering . With the ease of sending phishing emails thanks to malware infected PCs -- sp...
Monday, February 19, 2007

Cuba's Internet Dictatorship

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And you thought people in China suffer from the lack of free speech expression . Here's the cheap version of the great firewall of China...
Sunday, February 18, 2007

Profiling Sergey Brin

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Great weekend reading : " Stepping through the sliding glass door into their office is like walking into a playroom for tech-savvy adu...

Beyond Traditional Advertising Packages

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Differentiate your value proposition or cease to exist. And hey, that's on Madison Avenue : " As a startup carrier that hadn't...

My Feed is on Fire, My Feed is on Fire!

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I've never had so many people connected to me , perhaps it's the consequence of Feedburner detecting Google Readers as of this wee...
Friday, February 16, 2007

Delicious Information Warfare - Friday 16th

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Here are some articles and blog posts worth reading plus the related comments. Previous summaries as well . Islamic Terrorism from Cleargu...

Terrorism and Encryption

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Jihadist themed encryption tool -- using "infidel" algorithms : " The program`s `portability` as an application (not requirin...
Thursday, February 15, 2007

The Electronic Frontier Foundation in Europe

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Couldn't get any better : " The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) opened a new office in Brussels today to work with various in...

RFID Tracking Miniaturization

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First it was RFID tracking ink , now with the introduction of the new generation Hitachi mu-chips, miniaturization proves for yet another ti...
Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Censorship in China - An Open Letter

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An open letter to Google's Founders regarding the censorship of search results in China : " During the National Day holiday week i...

She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not

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I'm in love, with myself at the first place, and while Saint Valentine's meant to reboot a relationship so to speak, every day shoul...
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Emerging DDoS Attack Trends

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In a previous post I emphasized on the long-term trend of how DoS attacks have the potential to cause as much damage as a full-scale DDoS a...

Gender Based Censorship in the News Media

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Great perspective . The author Dr. Agnes Callamard even got the data to prove it. Limiting the freedom of expression for the sake of securin...

Forensic Examination of Terrorists' Hard Drives

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During the last year I presented my point of view on the topic in numerous posts, in order to debunk the common misunderstanding of Cyber...
Monday, February 12, 2007

Overachieving Technology Companies

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Great dataset by Forbes - The 25 Fastest-Growing Tech Companies : " Our selection process: We require at least $25 million in sales, 1...
Thursday, February 08, 2007

Receiving Everyone's Financial Statements

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Bank institutions around the world - stay tuned for wannabe identity thieves requesting their statements while hoping you'll forward th...

Automated Detection for Patterns of Insecurities

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While there're lots of pros and cons to consider when it comes to automated source code scanning, Fortify's pricey automated sou...
Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Interactivity by Default

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Proud to be operating in a Web 2.0 world, I'm continuing to integrate features to make the reading of this blog more interactive, less t...