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Does this bother anyone, or is it just the cost of flying these days? How do you think the government could misuse this information? Here

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 07, 2010

Q&A: Researcher Karsten Nohl on mobile eavesdropping

This week brought some bad news for mobile phone users. German security expert Karsten Nohl showed how easy it is to eavesdrop on GSM-based (Global System for Mobile Communications) cell phones, including those used by AT&T and T-Mobile customers in the U.S. to make tools available for people to verify its insecurities.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 05, 2010

Schneier: Steps to combat file-sharing are misguided

Leading security expert Bruce Schneier was in London this week on a whirlwind lecture tour. ZDNet UK caught up with the ex-NSA man, who is now BT's chief security technology officer, at lectures in parliament and at University College London.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 09, 2009

The IPS Goes Virtual

Intrusion protection system (IPS) technology is gradually adapting to virtual computing, as IPS vendors add to their product lines actual virtual IPSes as well as IPSes that protect virtual machines. Sourcefire's recent release of VMware-based virtual appliances was the latest arrival to the market of IPSes that work with virtual machines. IBM ISS also offers a virtual IPS, and TippingPoint has plans to roll out a virtual IPS offering as well.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 08, 2009

Installing OpenVPN on Linux and Unix Systems: Part 1

Installing OpenVPN is easy and platform independent. Modern Linux systems, such as SuSE, Red Hat, Debian, or Ubuntu, provide sophisticated installation and package management systems, and still offer other ways to install the software. In this two-part article by Markus Feilner, we will install it on different Linux versions and FreeBSD.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 05, 2009

EFF sues feds for info on social-network surveillance

The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the CIA, the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Justice, and three other government agencies on Tuesday for allegedly refusing to release information about how they are using social networks in surveillance and investigations.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 02, 2009

Fingerprint checks to begin at UK border controls

Fingerprint checks on foreigners at border controls will begin at the end of November, says the UK Border Agency. In addition to usual checks at UK border controls, from 30 November, 2009 overseas nationals arriving in the country will have their fingerprints scanned.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 30, 2009

New technology can monitor illegal file sharing

Technology consultancy Detica today announced a new technology which could help internet service providers (ISPs) monitor illegal file sharing over the internet, but the firm was quick to point out that the system does not identify individual offenders.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 27, 2009

Redirecting DNS requests can harm the Internet, says ICANN

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers on Tuesday condemned the practice of redirecting Internet users to a third-party Web site or portal when they misspell a Web address and type a domain name that does not exist.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 26, 2009

Freenet Lets You Browse the Web Freely

Large swaths of the world are subject to censorship, or else track their citizens' use of the Internet. Free program Freenet lets you anonymously browse the Web, share files, chat on forums, and more--no matter where you are. Download and run the software, and you become part of a decentralized P2P network that uses encryption and other tools to keep you hidden and anonymous. As you browse, your data is encrypted and sent through a series of Freenet nodes, making it very difficult to track you.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 26, 2009

Who's Talking About Me?

Popular videos and articles get reposted or discussed on dozens or hundreds of sites. But Web experts are now thinking about how to keep track of online conversation in real time, even when it's scattered all over the Web. A new crop of protocols aim to do just that.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 18, 2009

How to DDOS a federal wiretap

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania say they've discovered a way to circumvent the networking technology used by law enforcement to tap phone lines in the U.S. The flaws they've found "represent a serious threat to the accuracy and completeness of wiretap records used for both criminal investigation and as evidence in trial," the researchers say in their paper, set to be presented Thursday at a computer security conference in Chicago.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 12, 2009

Summit: Test case exposes murky world of government data trawling

A test case fought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has shown the extent to which the US government is willing to bend the law in its quest for data it wants. Indymedia is a news aggregator for left-wing and libertarian writers and on 30 January one of its volunteer administrators Kristina Clair received a grand jury subpoena from the Southern District of Indiana federal court.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 11, 2009

Dashboard shows what Google knows about you

Ever wonder exactly what Google knows about you? Google today took a step to help answer that question with the unveiling of Google Dashboard, which is designed to let users see and control the copious amounts of data that Google has stored in its servers about them.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 09, 2009

Google privacy controls: Most people won't care

Google's biggest threat is no longer Microsoft. It is itself. As the company harvests copious quantities of personal data, it becomes dramatically better at serving customer needs... ...and at freaking them out over privacy concerns.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 06, 2009

OpenVPN Is Too Slow? Time to Consider IPSEC

Often we need to secure communication channels, not for remote workers, but for server-to-server communication. Backups, for example, come to mind. It may be fine to use SSH or stunnel to ship data securely, but when performance is required and encryption cannot slow down communication, something else is necessary. OpenVPN is easy to configure, but it may not be sufficient.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 22, 2009

Test for compromised email accounts

Users who fear that the access credentials of their email accounts have appeared on the recently published list can now run a test to check. On Serversniff, Thomas Springer has set up a page that checks whether an email address appears on the known lists. To run the test, users simply enter the part of their email address before the "@" and the system will display any matching entries. However, only the first and last letter of the password will appear.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 15, 2009

6 Ways We Gave Up Our Privacy

Privacy has long been seen as a basic, sacred right. But in the Web 2.0 world, where the average user is addicted to Google apps, GPS devices, their BlackBerry or iPhone, and such social networking sites as Facebook and Twitter, that right is slowly and willingly being chipped away. In fact, some security experts believe it's gone already.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 12, 2009

Social networking sites leaking personal information to third parties, study warns

Many major social networking sites are leaking information that allows third party advertising and tracking companies to associate the Web browsing habits of users with a specific person, researchers warn.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 24, 2009

New iPhone Anti-Phishing Feature Fails

The new Apple iPhone OS 3.1 software comes with a new anti-phishing feature for the Mobile Safari browser, but researchers say the filter doesn't work.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 14, 2009

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