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Internet Censorship

2008-04-07 05:00:32 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...countries -- mainly in the Middle East, North Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the former Soviet Union -- selectively block their citizens' Internet access. Even more countries legislate to control what can and cannot be said, downloaded or linked to. "You have no sovereignty where we gather," said Barlow. Oh yes we do, the governments of the...
 
Tags: internet censorship, censorship, internet censorship measures, enable internet censorship, internet, prevent anonymous internet, internet access, global internet, net interprets censorship
 
 
 
 
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U.S. Arms Dealer Tests Legal Bounds in Middle East Arms Bazaar

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2008-07-03 22:00:00 by Sharon Weinberger in Wired Security
...countries to the Middle East and Afghanistan Ex-Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Penn., is helping broker deals between Russian weapons suppliers and the Iraqi and Libyan governments through his company, Defense Solutions Photo: H. Rumph Jr/AP The Russians want to sell weapons to Iraq directly, but "must go slow on Iraq because of political reasons" and...
 
Tags: arms brokers, brokers, infamous arms brokers, defense, firm defense solutions, arms, arms trade, international arms trade, russian weapons suppliers
 
 
 
 
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NSA Backdoors in Crypto AG Ciphering Machines

2008-01-11 06:51:20 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...countries the encryption machines their officials rely upon to exchange their most sensitive economic, diplomatic and military messages. Crypto AG was founded in 1952 by the legendary (Russian born) Swedish cryptographer Boris Hagelin. During World War II, Hagelin sold 140,000 of his machine to the US Army In the meantime, the Crypto AG has...
 
Tags: crypto, machines, company, swiss company, company web site, century, 20th century version, military messages, countries
 
 
 
 
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Loads.cc's DDoS for Hire Service

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2008-03-11 21:35:53 by HASH0x8b581c0 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...countries on specified individual prices Loaded only those countries which are specified in the problem The country is determined to maxmind geoip When it ALL loaded all countries and the price of downloads is calculated separately for each country that is DE for the download you pay for a $ 0.2 PE 0.03 Prices for downloads can sometimes...
 
Tags: ddos, service, malware, services, hire services, web based malware, undercover ddos, loads, country
 
 
 
 
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Web Server Software and Malware

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2007-06-05 09:30:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
...countries. The figure on the right shows the distribution, by country, of webserver software of servers either distributing malware or hosting browser exploits. It is very interesting to see that in China and South Korea, a malicious server is much more likely to be running IIS than Apache We suspect that the causes for IIS featuring more...
 
Tags: servers serve malware, servers, apache servers, malicious servers, web server software, server software, web servers, microsoft iis, microsoft iis features
 
 
 
 
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Cashing in on employee theft, or honest whistleblower?

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2008-02-25 14:03:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...countries that are interested in the information allegedly stolen by Mr. Kieber include the United Kingdom (U.K.), the United States (U.S.), Australia and others. Mr. Kieber now has a new identity (possibly as part of the arrangement with Germany) and his whereabouts are unknown Reference URL LGT Group Media Communique dated 2/24/08 Evan]...
 
Tags: confidential, confidential data, kieber, named heinrich kieber, lgt, lgt trust, data, confidential information, information
 
 
 
 
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Malware activities rise in Asia

2008-03-27 15:46:50 by Chenxi Wang in Security & Risk Management
 
...countries such as China. This is especially interesting because it points to the fact that hackers from those countries are compromising high traffic Websites in the US and Europe to help distribute malware (the difference between malware distribution and hosting site is that the former typically contains a link or a small amount of code that...
 
Tags: malware, malware distribution sites, malware distribution, distribute malware, highlight recent malware, internet threat report, internet threat, threat report, malware producers
 
 
 
 
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The DDoS Attack Against CNN.com

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2008-04-22 19:30:53 by HASH0x8b2d1ec in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...countries, take these countries as China for instance. If it were a botnet used, the diversity of the infected hosts would have required more efforts into dealing with the attack, then again from another perspective regular web traffic compared to network flood is sometimes harder to detect as a DDoS attack hackerhf.com/cnn.html...
 
Tags: ddos, ddos-ing cnn, cnn, ddos people, warfare, information warfare attack, attack, ddos attack, chinese script kiddies
 
 
 
 
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Why Is ISO2700x Hot in UK, but Not in US?

2008-05-16 11:36:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...countries: UK, Japan, Russia (where it is a basis for a set national standards), many others. But not in the US I have long been puzzled about this. What's the story The most likely explanation is that every security manager worth his salt read ISO17799 documents and then used the ideas and material in his own policies, procedures, etc. On...
 
Tags: iso17799 documents, security, security management, iso17799, security manager worth, set national standards, ideas, opposite true, countries