Posts Tagged ‘security’

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By Ryan Paul | Published: November 19, 2008 - 10:30AM CT
The European Commission (EC) has called for public comment on network infrastructure security as part of an effort to shape new policies that will strengthen the European Union against cyber-attacks and related threats.
The EU established the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) [...]

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By Glenn Fleishman | Published: November 06, 2008 - 07:25PM CT
Finding a slim vector

Academic researchers have found an exploitable hole in a popular form of wireless networking encryption. The hole is in a part of 802.11i that forms the basis of WiFi Protected Access (WPA), so it could affect routers worldwide. German [...]

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By THOMAS FULLER
Published: November 7, 2008
BANGKOK — In what lawyers described as a landmark ruling, a court in Malaysia on Friday ordered the release of one of the country’s best known bloggers, ruling that the government acted beyond its authority in invoking a threat to national security.
The blogger, Raja Petra [...]

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By Jon Stokes | Published: November 05, 2008 - 07:00AM CT
With identity theft and online banking fraud on the rise, users are understandably nervous about which computers and networks they use to check their bank accounts or carry out money transfers. IBM’s Zurich lab has come up with one possible way of attacking [...]

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By John Biggs
October 26th, 2008
A report by US Army Intelligence points to Twitter, GPS devices, and voice changing software as potential “terrorist tools.” Friend of CG, Noah Shachtman, posted the report on Danger Room noting that intelligence services have said that everything from MMORPGs to garage door openers could be potentially dangerous to [...]

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By David Chartier | Published: October 22, 2008 - 10:29PM CT

The Identity Theft Task Force that President Bush created in May 2006 has just issued a 70-page report on its work over the past two years. Detailed in the tome is the Task Force’s progress on initiatives like data protection, public education, and [...]

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By Julian Sanchez | Published: October 21, 2008 - 06:18AM CT
The government agency that birthed the Internet is developing a sophisticated search engine for video, and when complete will allow intelligence analysts to sift through live footage from spy drones, as well as thousands of hours worth of archived recordings, in order to [...]

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By Julian Sanchez | Published: October 15, 2008 - 10:10AM CT

POCA KIDSPA may sound like some sort of disturbing NAMBLA resort, but those are actually two pieces of legislation recently signed by President Bush—the Protect Our Children Act and theKeeping the Internet Devoid of Sexual Predators Act—that actually aim to frustrate Internet Uncle Ernies. Online watchdog groups, [...]

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October 16, 2008 - 4:47 am PDT - by Stan Schroeder

The Communications Data Bill, suggested by UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, proposes that all UK residents’ mobile and Web communication should be stored by the ISPs and MSPs in a giant database for 12 months. Actual content of conversations would not be stored, just times and [...]

Via Second life research
21 July, 2007
According to PHYSORG.com, “[...] police in Canada are turning to an unusual candidate pool for crime fighters: the virtual world of Second Life.
“Policing has to reflect society, and as technology becomes more pervasive in society, we have to make sure that officers we hire are familiar with the technology,” said Inspector [...]