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Where's my tinfoil hat?

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OK. This column may make me sound like I'm about to make a hat out of tinfoil but bear with me because my paranoia is completely justified. I know the truth and it's not "out there" as in "The X-Files," it's right here and it's a harsh reality that people really don't want to admit to: The reality is that there is no real privacy any more.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 21, 2011

The Usability of Passwords

Security companies and IT people constantly tells us that we should use complex and difficult passwords. This is bad advice, because you can actually make usable, easy to remember and highly secure passwords. In fact, usable passwords are often far better than complex ones.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 18, 2011

Wrap Firefox in a Cocoon of privacy

Web browsers are ground zero for Internet security threats, and the debate over responsibility for preventing those threats has resulted in a Gordian knot. The people behind the new add-on for Firefox called Cocoon (download) want to cut through debate by serving the entire Web to you via proxy. (Cocoon is also available at GetCocoon.com.)

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 06, 2011

SSH tunneling for secure web surfing

Mindlessly surfing from an insecure location such as a coffee shop, a hotel room or even your workplace? Sure you are and we can understand the need -and often times the urge- to be online. Hopefully, there

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 05, 2011

Attacking and Defending the Tor Network

The Tor Project has become a vital mechanism for privacy advocates, human rights activists, journalists and others in sensitive positions to evade online censorship and persecution. And while the governments interested in limiting user access to the Internet and controlling content have had some recent success in preventing the use of the anonymity network, Tor members have been working on new methods for circumventing those restrictions.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 29, 2011

Does RSA SecurID have a US gov't-authorized back door?

Does the RSA SecurID two-token authentication system include a back door that was built in at the request of the U.S. government in exchange for letting RSA export SecurID?

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 23, 2011

WikiLeaks' founder takes on Indian Prime Minister

WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange told an Indian TV channel that the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was engaged in a deliberate attempt to mislead the public by suggesting that the veracity of cables between the U.S. government and its embassy and consulates in India cannot be established.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 22, 2011

Chief Spy Says U.S. Too Secret About Cyber Threats

A former CIA Director says the U.S. Government is being too secretive about cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Retired four-star General and former CIA Director, Michael Hayden writes in a recent article that Uncle Sam is too quick to classify intelligence about software security holes, preventing the government and public sector from learning about them.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 15, 2011

Lessons Learned From WikiLeaks: Not So Much

IT and security professionals routinely use USBs, smartphones, and tablets to move and back up confidential files, yet their organizations haven't made changes in the wake of the WikiLeaks leaks.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 09, 2011

SSDs Prove Tough To Erase

Solid state drives (SSDs) have a small security problem: they're tough to erase. That warning comes from researchers at the University of California at San Diego. "Sanitization is well-understood for traditional magnetic storage, such as hard drives and tapes," said the researchers' in their study summary.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 22, 2011

Eben Moglen promotes Freedom in a box

In a recent interview with The H, Eben Moglen professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, and the founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center, spoke about his ideas for using simple hardware to free individuals from the tyranny of the client/server model imposed by current web services.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 18, 2011

Report: Privacy worries many Facebook, Google users

A considerable number of Facebook and Google users worry about privacy and malware when using the social networking site and search engine, according to a survey from Gallup Poll and USA Today.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 11, 2011

Did Sony add a rootkit to PS3 firmware update?

Gamers on a forum accuse Sony of adding a rootkit to its latest version of PlayStation 3 firmware. Rootkits, in general, have a bad reputation. Security watchers often associate them with malware. In this case specifically, though, the alleged rootkit would allow Sony to peer into users' system files without their knowledge.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 02, 2011

Apple hit with another suit alleging privacy violations

The class-action suit says that Apple allows for the tracking of iPhone and iPad users' browsing habits, without user consent. Apple has been hit with another lawsuit accusing it of privacy violations for the way it shares information collected from iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users with advertisers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 01, 2011

PirateBox: an "artistic provocation" in lunchbox form

When NYU art professor David Darts shows people his lunchbox, "a smile just starts creeping up on their face." Painted black with a white skull-and-crossbones, the metal box doesn't hold a pastrami on rye; instead, it's stuffed with networking equipment and batteries, and it hosts a Debian Linux install running a barebones Python-powered Web server.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 31, 2011

Smart Cards No Match for Online Spies

The U.S. government has been stepping up its use of smart cards to help lock down its computer networks, but hackers have found ways around them.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 27, 2011

GOP pushing for ISPs to record user data

The House Republicans' first major technology initiative is about to be unveiled: a push to force Internet companies to keep track of what their users are doing.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 25, 2011

WikiLeaks accused of tapping P2P for secret docs

As much as half of the secret documents posted by WikiLeaks may have been siphoned from peer-to-peer users who incorrectly configured their file-sharing software, according to evidence gathered by a security firm.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 24, 2011

Casinos cautioned to restrict access to player card information

Casino companies may not be the only ones keeping track of how many points you have on your player card.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 19, 2011

Tor project releases update to close critical hole

The developers of the Tor (The Onion Routing project) anonymisation solution has released version 0.2.1.29 to close a hole that can be remotely exploited. According to the developers, the problem is caused by a heap overflow. Version 0.2.1.28, which was released in late December, had already fixed another heap overflow in Tor. This flaw could be exploited to remotely crash Tor and the developers didn't rule out that it could also have been exploited to inject and execute arbitrary code.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 17, 2011

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