Hi 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) .
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China Encryption Regulations
Published by June 16th, 2010 in Privacy, business, cyberwarfare, intelligence, security and technology. 0 Comments
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 [...]
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 [...]
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’ [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
