Society
Facebook “joins” Tor – good-bye, privacy!
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2014-11-03
- Society, activity, anonymous, commercial, cost, disclosure, Facebook, identity, interest, network, privacy, protection, society, Tor
Multiple publications are touting the announcement by Facebook of a Tor-enabled version of the social networking website as nothing short of a breakthrough for anonymous access from “repressed nations”. They think that the people around the world who wish their identity and activity online to remain hidden will now have a great time of using ...
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Dark alleys of cybersecurity
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2014-09-01
- Society, assessment, awareness, cybersecurity, cyberspace, danger, dark alley, internet, security, situation
The security of the so-called “cyberspace” has deteriorated beyond belief. Some people tell me that my stories are far-fetched and that I view the security and computer industry with some sort of a depressing negativism. I disagree. The problem is, I am trying to stay positive and optimistic. My tales rarely go to the full ...
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Strategy towards more IT security: the road paved with misconceptions
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2014-07-23
- Society, component, conference, future, government, ignorance, internet, IT, management, manufacturing, misconception, network, restrict, secure, security, software, strategy, system
The strategy towards more IT security in the “Internet of Things” is based a little more than entirely on misconceptions and ignorance. The policy makers simply reinforce each other’s “ideas” without any awareness of where the road they follow is leading. As I listened on in the K-ITS 2014 conference, it became painfully obvious that ...
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TrueCrypt disappears
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2014-06-02
- Society, audit, container, disk encryption, encryption, security, society, suspicious, Tools, truecrypt
Quite abruptly, the TrueCrypt disk encryption tool is no more. The announcement says that the tool is no longer secure and should not be used. The website provides a heavily modified version of TrueCrypt (7.2) that allows one to decrypt the data and export it from a TrueCrypt volume. Many questions are asked around what ...
Read MoreFraud Botnet Controls Sales Terminals
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2013-12-05
- Society, botnet, credit card, Dexter, fraud, malware, point of sales, POS, security, StarDust
Ah, the humanity. ArsTechnica reports that researchers came across a proper botnet that controls 31 Point Of Sales (POS) servers with an unknown number of actual sales terminals connected to them. The botnet is operational, i.e., it is running and collecting the credit card data. The data is transmitted during idle times in an encrypted ...
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Can I interest you in more security, sir?
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2013-11-12
- Society, business, companies, hypocrisy, idealistic principles, internet, less security, more security, NSA, privacy, social
The last week’s meeting of the IETF discussed security of the Internet and the recent revelations that the NSA turned the Internet into a giant surveillance machine. While the sentiment was clear that the Internet should not allow itself to such abuse, there is little evidence that anything at all could be done about it. ...
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Dump anti-virus and move to secure-by-design?
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2013-10-15
- Society, antivirus, economics, externalities, infection, malware, mobile, ROI, secure by design, security investment, virus
I stumbled across an article this morning that analyses the threat to the mobile devices from malware and comes to the conclusion that it is not likely a good idea to have an anti-virus on your mobile. The premises are that only a very few of the mobile devices are currently infected, so the conclusion ...
Read MoreUser Data Manifesto
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2013-09-20
- Society, cloud, control access, general, initiative, manifesto, own data, philosophy, privacy, private data, storage, transparency
Having a confirmation that the governments spy on people on the Internet and have access to the private data they should not sparked some interesting initiatives. One of such interesting initiatives is the User Data Manifesto: 1. Own the data The data that someone directly or indirectly creates belongs to the person who created it. ...
Read MoreIn the news
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2013-09-12
- Society, BlackBerry, give up privacy, Google, internet, mobile phone control, moral obligation, news, NSA, privacy, protection, Vint Cerf
I do not often want to comment the news so today is a special day. The first piece is an article on the popular subject of NSA Web Surveillance quoting some well-known people starts off on a good direction but gets derailed somehow into recommending obscurity for security. Strange as it is we really should ...
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Nokia is gone. So is mobile security.
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2013-09-06
- Society, Apple, Google, inevitability, Microsoft, mobile, Nokia, NSA, orchestrated takeover, privacy, surveillance
The recent acquisition of Nokia by Microsoft stirred up investors and Nokia fans. But, the question goes, what does it have to do with security? (Not) Surprisingly, a lot. Working in security makes people slightly paranoid over time, that is a fact. On the one hand, without being suspicious of everything and checking all strangeness ...
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Albert Zenkoff
Managing corporate security in both technical and business sense in the context of long-term business strategy and sustainability.
For security consulting, training, certification and audit mail albert@aruberusan.com.
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About the author
Albert Zenkoff
Managing corporate security in both technical and business sense in the context of long-term business strategy and sustainability.
For security consulting, training, certification and audit mail albert@aruberusan.com.