As most of this blog reader already know, in past years there was a lot of activities related to public research for GSM auditing and cracking. However when there was huge media coverage to GSM cracking research results, the tools to make the cracking was really early stage and still very inefficient. Now Frank Stevenson , norwegian [...]
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GSM cracking in penetration test methodologies (OSSTMM) ?
Published by July 23rd, 2010 in Privacy, intelligence, interception, security and technology. 2 Comments
Web2.0 privacy leak in Mobile apps
Published by July 17th, 2010 in Privacy, intelligence, security and technology. 0 CommentsYou know that web2.0 world it’s plenty of leak of any kind (profiling, profiling, profiling) related to Privacy and users starts being concerned about it. Users continuously download applications without knowing the details of what they do, for example iFart just because are cool, are fun and sometime are useful. On mobile phones users install [...]
Blackberry Security and Encryption: Devil or Angel?
Published by July 7th, 2010 in Privacy, business, intelligence, interception, security and technology. 1 CommentBlackberry have good and bad reputation regarding his security capability, depending from which angle you look at it. This post it’s a summarized set of information to let the reader the get picture, without taking much a position as RIM and Blackberry can be considered, depending on the point of view, an extremely secure platform or [...]
China Encryption Regulations
Published by June 16th, 2010 in Privacy, business, cyberwarfare, intelligence, security and technology. 0 CommentsHi all, i found this very interesting paper on China Encryption Import/Export/Domestic Regulations done by Baker&Mckenzie in the US. It’s strongly business and regulatory oriented giving a very well done view on how china regulations works and how it may behave in future. Read here Decrypting China Encryption’s Regulations (form Bakernet website) .
The (old) Crypto AG case and some thinking about it
Published by June 7th, 2010 in cyberwarfare, intelligence, interception and security. 0 CommentsIn the ‘90, closed source and proprietary cryptography was ruling the world. That’s before open source and scientifically approved encrypted technologies went out as a best practice to do crypto stuff. I would like to remind when, in 1992, USA along with Israel was, together with switzerland, providing backdoored (proprietary and secret) technologies to Iranian government to [...]
Missiles against cyber attacks?
Published by June 7th, 2010 in cyberwarfare, intelligence and security. 0 CommentsThe cyber conflicts are really reaching a point where war and cyberwar merge together. NATO countries have the right to use the force against attacks on computer networks.
Licensed by Israel Ministry of Defense? How things really works!
Published by January 29th, 2010 in Privacy, cyberwarfare, intelligence, interception and security. 0 CommentsYou should know that Israel is a country where if a company need to develop encryption product they must be authorized by the government. The government don’t want that companies doing cryptography can do anything bad to them and what they can do of good for the government, so they have to first be authorized. Companies providing [...]
Location Based Services: the big brother thanks you ;-)
Published by December 1st, 2009 in Privacy, intelligence, interception and technology. 0 CommentsDo you use your iphone, google phone, blackberry or nokia smartphone with cool built-in GPS? Well law enforcement can now know even better where you are, at any time, even with historical data and much better than BTS based location systems. Sprint has given 8 million times customer’s GPS information to law enforcement (sound something like a [...]
Gold-Lock Security Encryption Contest: be careful!
Published by November 25th, 2009 in Privacy, cyberwarfare, intelligence and interception. 0 CommentsThis post is to talk about the “unfair” marketing approach of Gold-Lock, an israeli company doing mobile voice encryption authorized by Israeli Ministry of Defence . Following an announcement seen on Linkedin “Information Security Community” group: GoldLock is offering US$ 100.000 and a job for an unencryption GoldLock, an israeli encryption and security company [...]
Disk encryption sometimes ‘works’
Published by November 9th, 2009 in Privacy and cybercrime. 0 CommentsI am one of the person convinced that a computer disk encryption system will not protect you from public authorities if they are convinced enough and the case is very important. There are a lot of way to convince a person to release a password. However there’s a case in Australia where not revealing the disk password [...]
Brazilian Electrical Blackout: preview of cyberwar
Published by November 7th, 2009 in cyberwarfare, intelligence and security. 0 CommentsIn 2005 and 2007 in Brazil million of people was targetted by a blackout. Initially it appeared like an accident. Now it’s known that was caused by a cyber attack against electricity control systems. That was just a preview of what a cyber attack in a cyberwar means. In near future we’ll probably see something like ‘virtual custom offices’ [...]
Political conflict in Turkey between Prosecutors and Wiretappers
Published by November 7th, 2009 in Privacy, intelligence and interception. 0 CommentsIt seems that in Turkey the Telecommunication Directorate (TIB), in charge of managing the wiretapping, intercepted the president of the Judge and Prosecutors Associations. Prosecutors and Judge usually does not like being tapped, and so the 1st High Criminal Court ordered an audit of all the recording done by the TIB since 2006. Read more here.
Conventionality is not morality.
Published by August 6th, 2009 in business, cybercrime and security. 0 CommentsDuring my daily RSS OCD reading I had to deal with this article: it has been written by a “senior anti-virus researcher at Kaspersky Lab’s“. Talk about personal interest. I wont comment on the practical implications of useless signature based AV’s and how cyber criminals will never need amateur-ish projects to carry on their malicious tactics. But what [...]
This is big business, this is the American way
Published by July 31st, 2009 in cybercrime, security and technology. 0 Comments43 years old “UFO eccentric” hacker Gary McKinnon just loses appeal against his extradition to the States for computer crimes he committed 7 years ago. If you’ve lived under a rock during the last few years what this dude did was basically break into .gov computers looking for UFO related material. Probably the last case of recreational [...]
Russia: the best worldwide place for cybercrime business
Published by July 30th, 2009 in cybercrime, cyberwarfare and intelligence. 0 CommentsRussia is a very beautiful place for any committed cybercrime business owner. FBI and Mcafee are trying to do something, do they will ever succeed? I don’t think so, it’s a political issue as russia is not going to extradite any cybercriminal and is not going to provide strong international cooperations. Always remember that in Russia Business Network [...]
chinese espionage: the worst and more silent threat for western countries
Published by July 27th, 2009 in business, cybercrime, cyberwarfare and management. 0 CommentsHi all, in the past few years i saw an incredible increase in the amount of “public” news about espionage against different western countries and usually coming from far-east, typically china. China want to be the largest economic power within 2020 and it’s following a grow rate of 8% per year. Their “controlled” capitalism without the inefficiency [...]
Criminal business model: Somali pirate case study
Published by July 27th, 2009 in business and cybercrime. 0 CommentsHi all, this blog post is to have a nice economical point of view on somali pirates business model, something nice as also crime is a business and need it’s business evaluation: An economic Analysis of Somali Pirates Business Model It sounds much like a great deal, check it out the details: The attack model and costs The negotiation phase [...]
1st august 2009: Switzerland start realtime internet interception
Published by July 21st, 2009 in cyberwarfare, intelligence, interception and security. 0 CommentsThe intelligence strength is increasing everywhere… also in Switzerland that had a well known privacy protection approach! Read the WikiLeaks Article
UAE government placing backdoors into Blackberry devices
Published by July 21st, 2009 in Privacy, cyberwarfare, intelligence, interception and security. 0 CommentsNice attempt to place backdoors inside Blackberry devices. It seems that UAE government wanted to do something nasty placing backdoors trough software upgrades in Etilsat (local mobile operator) blackberry devices, obviously with the cooperation of the mobile operator itself. Fortunately, the power of the security community discovered and unveiled the facts. Check it out. Etisat patch designed for [...]
Chinese Spying NSA/USA buying Cryptographic Equipment on Ebay
Published by July 12th, 2009 in cyberwarfare and intelligence. 1 CommentIt’s amazing. A chinese guy has been engaged within an espionage activity for the People’s Republic of China buying and exporting cryptographic equipments, radio and other secure hardware on eBay. It’s unbelivable, read there, Chi Tong Kuok found on eBay: 1 software for a VDC-300 airborne data controller, used for secure satellite communications from the American [...]
Voice encryption in government sectors
Published by July 6th, 2009 in Privacy, business, cyberwarfare, intelligence, interception and security. 0 CommentsI will make some in depth articles about how voice encryption really works in government environments. The open standards and open source still have to reach the military and government environments for what’s related to secure speech. To give you an idea of the complexity and kind of particular issues that exists, look at the USA 3G [...]
Women as agents of future geopolitical changes
Published by July 6th, 2009 in intelligence. 0 CommentsNice to read about Global Trends 2025 from United States National Intelligence Council.
Hackers hired from UK Office of Cyber Security
Published by July 6th, 2009 in cybercrime, cyberwarfare and intelligence. 0 CommentsIt seems that in UK the management became illuminated, they discovered that the most efficient way to fight a cyber war is to hire soldier that play in the battlefield everyday, only for passion. U.K. Employs ‘Naughty Boys’ to Battle Other Hackers U.K. Employs ‘Naughty Boys’ to Battle Other Hackers
Voice Security and Privacy slides
Published by July 6th, 2009 in Privacy, intelligence and technology. 0 CommentsBelow my slides on voice security and privacy from Security Summit 2009. mmm, yes i am working in this area from 2005, will write again about it. 2009: Voice Security And Privacy (Security Summit – Milan) [...]
