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Internet Pioneer Speaks Out on Privacy, Governance, and Internet Tax

In an interesting addition to the everlasting debate about internet censorship – specifically on the idea of an 'Internet Tax' – one of the creators of the internet has spoken out about his views on how strange the notion is, and how the interference of governments in managing hi ...

Posted 11 February 2013 by Jean-Loup Richet

tags: Jean-Loup Richet, censorship, Internet tax, Privacy, Governance, Vint Cerf

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Mac AV Testing: How Useful Is It?

I commented recently (on an independent AV testing-related blog) on a blog article from Intego in which Lysa Myers commented not only on the infamous Imperva pseudo-test, but on a test report from Thomas' Tech Corner. On January 28, Thomas Reed returned to the fray with a further ro ...

Posted 29 January 2013 by David Harley

tags: David Harley, Mac malware, Mac AV, AV product testing, anti-malware testing

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Brace Yourselves, Europe: The Lawyers are Coming

Peter Fleischer, an American in Paris who is also Google’s Global Privacy Counsel, knows a bit about privacy and law. Writing in his own blog, he has warned Europe to expect a litigious explosion in a few years, with the new EC data protection regulation expected to come into force in 2015. S ...

Posted 23 January 2013 by Slack Alice

tags: data protection, European Commission

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Censorship in China: What is Really at Stake?

Recently, China has tightened its control over VPNs (virtual private networks), the systems that allowed many of its people to access banned sites. Basically, a VPN is a private network that sends and receives data through public systems. It remains private through a combination of dedicated co ...

Posted 21 January 2013 by Jean-Loup Richet

tags: Jean-Loup Richet, China, Censorship, Great Firewall, VPN

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RSA: The Light at the End of the Tunnel

I’m a great sufferer of the January blues and associate them with many negative connotations. However, the one bit of sunshine at the end of the tunnel every January is the imminent RSA Conference in San Francisco. It doesn’t take a genius to work out why the promise of a week in my fav ...

Posted 11 January 2013 by Eleanor Dallaway

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Pirates in the Cloud

The FBI takedown of Megaupload one year ago was a PR fiasco, and quite possibly, a practical disaster for law enforcement and rights holders. The image of armed police storming a private function and holding a pregnant woman (Dotcom’s partner) at gunpoint – and preventing her calling for ...

Posted 10 January 2013 by Slack Alice

tags: cloud computing, Megaupload, Pirate Bay, Kim Dotcom

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Jailbreaking: Not Just a Sport for iPhone Users

I just came across an interesting blog by Lysa Myers (for Intego) on jailbreaking: The Latest in Jailbreaking: Will Malware Follow? Ironically, while there are rumours of an imminent untethered jailbreak for iOS 6.0.2, the most recent high-profile jailbreak is for Windows RT, approximately equivale ...

Posted 09 January 2013 by David Harley

tags: David Harley, Intego, Codeproof, Lysa Myers, jailbreaking, iOS, tethered jailbreaking, untethered jailbreaking, Android, Windows RT

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The Western Machinery of Surveillance Weapons

On December 11 of this year, Reporters Without Borders and Human Rights Watch jointly released a press release calling for the EU to enact new controls on internet censorship and surveillance technologies that are regularly being built in Europe and shipped to authoritarian states all over t ...

Posted 21 December 2012 by Jean-Loup Richet

tags: censorship, Reporters Without Borders, Herdict, Human Rights Watch, surveillance technologies, content filtering, Wikileaks, OpenNet Initiative, Surveillance weapons

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1.5 Factor Authentication: Myth or Fact?

Last week, I met with Steven Hope, technical director at Winfrasoft, a multi-factor authentication company. As Hope was introducing me to the company and their suite of products, he listed everything they offer: “PINgrid, PINphrase and PINpass which deliver strong and affordable two-fac ...

Posted 20 December 2012 by Eleanor Dallaway

tags: Authentication , Winfrasoft , Two-factor , PINgrid

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False Positives and the Disposition Matrix

The bane of databases is the false positive – the inclusion of an entry that shouldn’t be there. For anti-malware databases, false positives are inconvenient: good software is blocked because it is believed to be bad. For human databases it can be equally inconvenient: a false positive i ...

Posted 20 December 2012 by Slack Alice

tags: disposition matrix, terrorism

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CipherCloud: Expansion into Europe, Investment, and The Cost of a Data Breach

The week that CipherCloud announced it had received $30 million in new funding from Andreessen Horowitz, a leading venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, I sat down to lunch with their CEO, Pravin Kothari, Richard Olver, Regional Director of EMEA, and Dev Ghoshal, Senior Vice President, ...

Posted 20 December 2012 by Eleanor Dallaway

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Commercial Anti-virus vs. Microsoft

It’s often the case when I set out and write a news feature that I typically end up with far more copy than space allotted in our print edition. My most recent feature on Windows 8 security is no exception. Thank goodness for this blog, and its ability to serve as a venue for all those unused ...

Posted 19 December 2012 by Drew Amorosi

tags: Microsoft, anti-virus, Windows 8, Windows Defender

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Mayan Hangover

It’s not often that having a background in both archeology and technology seems useful, but when you’re facing the end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it, then it’s surprising what becomes relevant. On Dec 21st, the 13th b'ak'tun in the Mayan calendar comes to an end and the following day ...

Posted 18 December 2012 by Geoff Webb

tags: Security, 12-21-12, Mayan Calendar

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2013: The Year for Privacy?

As we approach the end of the year it is only natural that people start looking forward to what may happen in the upcoming New Year. My inbox, like everyone else’s, has been flooded with messages from vendors predicting the threats that we will face in 2013, and by some strange twist of fate o ...

Posted 18 December 2012 by Brian Honan

tags: Privacy, Security, Predictions

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Send in the Clones

The longer you stay in this game, the more obsolete information you have cluttering up your memory cells. Technology moves quickly, and in the tug o’ war o’ attrition between malware and anti-malware, the effective lifetime of a specific malicious binary is often very short indee ...

Posted 17 December 2012 by David Harley

tags: David Harley, John Leyden, Mikko Hypponen, Michelangelo, Elk Cloner, Brain, viruses, malware, Apple II

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An Interview with Jamie Pearce, WatchGuard Technologies

During a lovely lunch at Kettners with WatchGuard’s UK & Ireland regional sales manager, Jamie Pearce, we talked UTM performance issues, 2013 threats, and the advantages of an industry rich in M&A… UTM (Unified Threat Management), says Pearce, is “having a resurgence&rdqu ...

Posted 14 December 2012 by Eleanor Dallaway

tags: WatchGuard, UTM, Infosecurity

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Cybersecurity’s “Fiscal Cliff”

Regardless of how the profession has evolved, or what the specific challenges are facing your sector, one thing has remained constant in the information security field for some time: the demand for qualified professionals has generated nearly full employment for the industry. This comes at a time wh ...

Posted 13 December 2012 by Drew Amorosi

tags: cybersecurity, fiscal cliff, US government, sequestration

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An Interview with Aidan Simister, Netwrix

I recently met with Aidan Simister, country manager, UK & Ireland, NetWrix, at the W hotel in Leicester Square. You may not be familiar with NetWrix if you are UK-based, which Simister blames on the fact that they are “terrible at telling people what we do, but brilliant at writing tools& ...

Posted 12 December 2012 by Eleanor Dallaway

tags: Auditing, NetWrix, Compliance

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It’s a Man’s Man’s World

So, I should probably begin with a disclaimer. I am a woman working in the infosecurity industry, which arguably makes me biased, but certainly puts me in a position to comment on this much-debated topic: the lack of women in information security. At the RSA Europe conference in October 2012, ...

Posted 10 December 2012 by Eleanor Dallaway

tags: information, security, woman, industry

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OSX/Flashback isn't Necessarily the Newsflash

As the pseudonymous Old Mac Bloggit – my colleague at Mac Virus – has already noted, there’s some interesting Mac-related content included in the Sophos Security Threat Report 2012 (some of it already summarized in an Infosecurity article here: Malware set to take a big bit ...

Posted 07 December 2012 by David Harley

tags: David Harley, OSX/Flashback, Mac Virus, Sophos, Apple, mac malware, Forrester, OSX/FkCodec-A, WildList, INF/Autorun

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