protection of teens is a parental issue while protecting your home computer is your responsibility But the education of teens, their parents and home users to the growing information security AND privacy problem will require an educational effort that involves schools, social networking organizations, and government agencies. On top, regulation with teeth is required The [...]
Entries from December 2007
CyTRAP Labs global security forecast 2008 – biggest obstacles against a safer Internet are …
December 27th, 2007 · 5 Comments
Tags: advertiser · advertisers · adware · dollar · forecast · herders · intermediaries · opta
Russian cyber criminals give CyTRAP Labs’ news service ’stamp of approval’ resulting in massive denial of service attack
December 21st, 2007 · No Comments
This story is a bit tongue and cheek but remember our posting last weekend about ecrime drop in Russia In that story we talked about the Russian Business Network. We also pointed out that masterhost.ru is a provider that does not seem to discharge with its legal responsibilities following best practice. In fact, the above [...]
Tags: 0100 · 200704 · ecrime · masterhost · nerve · originating · russia · shelter
CyTRAP Labs global security forecast 2008 – users take care – silliness is everywhere
December 20th, 2007 · 4 Comments
Once again, it is the time of the year when vendors and experts are supposed to gaze into the crystal ball and provide their security forecasts for next year. So what have our illustrous experts in store for you this time…. read on and get it first hand. December 2006 we ventured to predict what [...]
Tags: 2008 · cybercriminals · dkdkdkd · forecasts · increasingly · silly · targetting · theme
validation of e-voting systems reveals critical security failures: don’t throw the baby out with the bath water
December 17th, 2007 · No Comments
what is it about? Ohio uses five voting systems manufacturered by three firms: – Elections Systems and Software (ES&S) – 3 systems namely Unity EMS, iVotronic DRE, and M100/M650-based optical scan voting systems; – Premier Election Solutions, formerly Diebold; and – Hart InterCivic. The study reports that voting machines and central servers made by these [...]
Tags: ballot · ballots · brunner · elections · eliminating · ohio · precincts · voting
Comcast prevents customers from using BitTorrent and Gnutella
December 16th, 2007 · No Comments
who is Comcast? a) 2nd largest Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the United States. b) largest cable TV and cable Internet network provider in the United States, c) duopoly or monopoly provider of residential broadband Internet access. what is Comcast doing? – Comcast is forging traffic packet forgery – stopping BitTorrent by injecting reset data [...]
Tags: cable · cdkdkdk · comcast · duopoly · largest · provider · residential · united
Windows Vista SP1 includes more than 300 hot fixes
December 15th, 2007 · No Comments
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 – expected 1st Quarter 2008 Microsoft explains that Windoes Vista Service Pack 1 will not resolve compatability issues.“Applications that have compatibility issues with Windows Vista today will most likely continue to have the same issues with Windows Vista with SP1.” Microsoft officials have said they were not not planning to [...]
Tags: applications · candidate · concedes · enhance · kiss · upside · vista · whitepaper
1 research methodology – ecrime drop in Russia
December 13th, 2007 · 6 Comments
In the past we have pointed you in the direction of good research, such as: research that matters – identity theft We have also pointed out why some findings can be misconstrued or not tell us the whole story in other places, such as work conduced by PWC here: 3 ENISA – awareness raising study [...]
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CyTRAP Labs checklist – risk exposure – data protection and data security
December 9th, 2007 · No Comments
Related stories – risk assessment and risk management – Scandinavian Airlines fails to use the six-step process – SMEs and security metrics – where should one start? Today, legal and regulatory compliance issues are a major focus for businesses. The threat of being found personally liable by the government, or industry governing bodies, is a [...]
Tags: declining · documented · exposure · initiatives · investments · outbreak · susceptible · worm
Macs attacked – no Virginia, Santa Claus is making a joke
December 6th, 2007 · No Comments
In the past we have pointed you in the direction of good reasearch, such as: research that matters – identity theft We have also pointed out why some findings can be misconstrued or not tell us the whole story in other places, such as work conduced by PWC here: 3 ENISA – PWC awareness raising [...]
Tags: conjoint · cream · crunching · effect · methodoligical · stick · tasters · variable