This year’s Hack-in-the-Box Netherlands security conference takes place next week at the Okura Hotel in Amsterdam, and will be the first ever week-long HITB event. A new iOS jailbreak is expected.
Banks and cybercriminals are engaged in a “war of escalation”, warned Peter Tapling, Authentify president and chief executive officer.
Yesterday we reported that the German Pirate Party had been ‘accidentally’ blocked by an automatic content filtering system used by many German schools. And yesterday the Open Rights Group and the LSE Media Policy Unit published a new report: Mobile Internet censorship: What’s happening and what we can do about it.
In its 2012 Disaster Preparedness survey, Symantec finds a link between the three great movers of contemporary computing: virtualization, cloud computing and mobility. That link, surprisingly, is security – or more specifically, it is the need for adequate disaster recovery capabilities.
Last month, Ars Technica asked the question, ‘Can Apple give police a key to your encrypted iPhone data?’ It concluded that it probably could not for the data on the device; but probably could for data stored in iCloud. Now the question has less relevance, with the latest version of ElcomSoft’s EPPB and the increasing use of iCloud.