Monthly Archives: February 2008
New York’s Total Snoop Grid Moving Forward
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2007/241207_snoop.htm The article describes the “mission creep” going on in our war on terrorism. While the purported reason for installing thousands of cameras in Manhattan is to protect us from terrorism, Manhattan seems an odd place to be spending to … Continue reading
Google Privacy Policy: 2007 in Review
Google has posted a video recap of 2007’s privacy policies. In the heart of “don’t be evil”, Google Global Privacy Counsel member Peter Fleischer covers Google’s position on some of the toughest privacy topics of our time.
Our Nation’s Borders
The security of our nation’s borders is a topic of great importance. The importance of border security, like most forms of security, can only be truly appreciated when it fails. Some forms of border security failure can have devastating consequences … Continue reading
Security Review: Automated Teller Machine
Summary: Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) have been around since the late 1930s. Nowadays they can be found all over the place. The common and accepted use of these machines is to draw money from your bank account in a convenient … Continue reading
Bank teller arrested for $3.2M theft
A Romanian bank teller was arrested for illegally transferring $3.2M into two bank accounts by using his director’s password. There is no detail in the article to describe how the teller acquired the director’s password but this could have been … Continue reading
Four Undersea Cables Cut In Middle East In Less Than a Week
As many of you may have heard, two undersea cables were cut on January 31st severing internet to millions of users in the middle east. At first it was reported that these cables were severed by a ship’s anchor, but … Continue reading
Electronic voting?: How about OpenSource?
A recent article posted on slashdot (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/03/173241) talks about the possibility of software on electronic voting machines being open source. One claimed benefit is that open source will provide transparency and lessen the distrust that the public have for e-voting. … Continue reading
Website Defacing Example
A while ago I wrote a post about having stumbled across a site on the uwnews domain that had been attacked. Yoshi reported the problem after determining it to be genuine and uwnews fixed the problem promptly. At the time, … Continue reading
Bush Order Expands Network Monitoring
The article is about the recent directive that was signed by President Bush to expand the intelligence community’s involvement to monitor against computer attacks on government systems. The reason for this intiative is because the increasing attacks to government sytems, … Continue reading
Taking Down the Internet
Recently I read an article about how undersea cables were cut, causing internet outages around the middle east. This has revealed how physically fragile the network is. Since so much of the traffic is routed through so few cables, it … Continue reading