Did the hacker who shared internal Occupy Wall Street emails violate CEH ethics
Gawker has run a very interesting expose on a Certified Ethical Hacker who infiltrated Occupy Wall Street (OWS) as a private citizen, and shared internal OWS e-mails with Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government page. The question that he did it is fairly well established with his own writing on the Big Government page, and the Gawker [...]
And I get a takedown Notice from Aiplex in India
About a year ago (to be exact, September 20th 2010) members of 4chan started an attack against low yield targets against the MPAA, RIAA and Aiplex. That article was picked up by Cloud Avenue and was an article that flew under the wire, few if any paid attention, and like all events this one was [...]
Porn sites start using Facebook Connect
With a sense of humor because when Mashable’s Pete Cashmore wrote that Facebook users should be beware that the new timeline feature could embarrass a user, I just had to see what the porn industry was doing. Porn has been trying to get involved in social media, but for a multi-billion dollar industry we tend [...]
Twitter Malware loose tonight 9-18-2011
I have been getting a lot of twitter malware links tonight that uses a pretty simple browser based exploit that is easily caught by just about any anti-virus. But tonight malware links are making the rounds, and unfortunately they are going everywhere. So far have about 3 accounts I follow in the comic book community [...]
Homomorphic Encryption for Cloud Computing
Those boffins over at Microsoft have shown that homomorphic encryption can go beyond theory and have developed a couple of limited proofs of concept. This is the cool part, this kind of encryption goes well beyond what we are thinking of privacy for personal data, if you can processed encrypted data, then over time [...]
One Firewall for a United Europe
Does Europe need a firewall much like the famous Great Firewall of China? As we continue to struggle with the ideas of the internet, censorship, and illegal activity, Torrent Freak is reporting about a movement for the “Great Firewall of Europe”. …
New Gmail Scam making the rounds
Again with the warnings: do not click on that link or reply to that email a new Gmail scam is making the rounds today. Don’t give out your e-mail information, including user name and password. The e-mail contains this text: We are shutting down some accounts due to congestion in our database system and your [...]
PRCCDC 2011 it is that time of year for all Student Cyber Defenders to face down hackers
If you are not aware of the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, this is a good place to start. If you are aware, then you might know that the regional competitions are underway, and this year I have been very involved with one awesome team from Highline Community College with a huge assist from CityU of [...]
Spammers have been busy but I like the new twist
Spammers are always busy trying to get their message to you, for what ever it is they are plugging, but I have noticed a new spammer that is doing keyword tagging along the way, making it much easier to find weak websites with no filtering for comments, making it a spammer’s paradise. We always [...]
RSA Chief – Cloud Security Is Real And Virtualization Is The Silver Lining
RSA 2011 conference is going on in San Francisco at this point of time and Cloud Computing is a hot topic again this year. In his keynote address, RSA executive chairman, Art Coviello, told the audience that Cloud Security is real and he argued that virtualization is the path to better cloud security and control. [...]
Art Of Defence Goes Open Source
Art of Defence (see previous CloudAve coverage), originally founded in Germany with offices at San Francisco, announced during the ongoing RSA conference that they are open sourcing the core of their distributed web application firewall (dWAF). The project called openWAF will help protect the web based applications in this cloud era. This is an interesting [...]
Your Twitter security is an egg, not an onion
Hard to come up with a more fuzzy title really. Let me cut through the usual Twitter conversation show and pick only one: .@CoCreatr @VenessaMiemis @dsearls Twitter DMs can be seen by 3rd parties http://bit.ly/auSmBL < what part of “access” did u not understand? That was a rather short version of the original tweet, including [...]
Symplified Closes Series B Round As It Gets Ready For The Enterprise Cloud Boom
Image via CrunchBase Symplified, the Boulder based cloud security company, today announced that they have raised a Series B round of $9 Million funding. Symplified offers a comprehensive identity management suite consisting of Access Manager, Identity Manager and Single Sign-On. Also, their SinglePoint PaaS offering is suitable for enterprises to have a virtual identity infrastructure [...]
Foxmarks, Xmarks, LastPass, Xpass, LastX, X%^&% Quick Rant
Warning: I think I’m becoming a curmudgeon – except that title has until now been reserved for somebody else . But I still have doubts about the recent transaction: LastPass acquired Xmarks. I really liked Xmarks – when it was Foxmarks. A simple bookmark synchronization service that would keep your Firefox up-to-date no matter where [...]
ThreatMetrix Approach: Prevent Fraud While Protecting Customer Privacy
ThreatMetrix (see previous CloudAve coverage), Los Altos, CA based vendor offering online fraud protection, today announced a new release that helps businesses prevent online fraud while protecting the customer privacy without the use of cookies or cookie equivalents like local stored objects. With this move, ThreatMetrix is clearly sending a message to companies that using [...]
