Archive for 2011/09/10

Dutch media reporting: DigiNotar hack could have caused major black-out of government computer infrastructure. Authorities are still working to prevent that from happening

Posted: 2011/09/10 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy

A matter of quickly replacing the hacked DigiNotar certificates, avoiding any negative effects as a result of decisions by web browser makers and other online businesses to stop trusting those compromised certificates.

Dutch language news articles:
http://www.nu.nl/internet/2611981/black-out-overheidssystemen-afgewend-hack-diginotar-.html

and

http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2011/09/10/onderzoek-nrc-platgaan-computers-rijk-net-afgewend/ 

DigiNotar hack has rendered 60,000 certificates completely useless

Posted: 2011/09/10 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

Dutch language news article:
http://www.security.nl/artikel/38437/1/DigiNotar-hacker_maakt_60.000_certificaten_waardeloos.html

The FBI has only allowed the use of its Anti-Piracy Warning Seal by members of the Recording Industry Association of America, Business Software Alliance, Entertainment Software Association, Software & Information Industry Association, and of course the Motion Picture Association of America, which likes to make sure you can’t fast-forward through the DVD while the warning is displayed, thus driving you to download an MPEG from the Pirate Bay

Posted: 2011/09/10 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement

Bloggers rejoice! No longer will the recording, movie and software industries retain exclusive rights to the FBI’s familiar anti-piracy logo.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/09/fbi-antipiracy-logo/

Facebook has agreed to sign a voluntary code of conduct in Germany to protect users’ data. The social networking giant’s problems in the European country may finally be on the road to resolution

Posted: 2011/09/10 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-agrees-to-sign-voluntary-privacy-code-in-germany/3492

Enterprise leadership is often out of touch with innovation, collaborative processes and the levers for success

Posted: 2011/09/10 in Education / Awareness

‘It’s time to stop the the dominance of the number crunchers, living in their perfect, predictable, financially projected world  (who fail, time and time again) and give the reins to the product guys, those with vision and passion for the customers and their product or service’

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/collaboration/cult-of-leadership/2127

A new survey in the UK has found that Facebook ranked fifth on a list of things people say they can’t live without

Posted: 2011/09/10 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/brits-facebook-is-more-vital-than-a-mobile-phone-shower-toilet/3513

Ex-Microsoft employee Justin Angel decompiled the AVG program and found that it collects a range of information—including the phone’s unique ID, the network operator, the owner’s e-mail address—and then sends this information, along with the phone’s GPS location, to AVG’s servers

Posted: 2011/09/10 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Privacy / Data Protection, Stats / reports

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/09/privacy-violating-useless-avg-anti-virus-app-pulled-from-windows-phone-marketplace.ars

Outages are becoming a distressing fact of life for Microsoft’s cloud e-mail customers, and users of other cloud services such as Google Apps

Posted: 2011/09/10 in Education / Awareness, The Cloud

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/09/office-365-google-docs-go-down-again-could-give-pause-to-the-cloud-wary.ars

That Anonymous Cop Leak Was Much Worse than We Thought

Posted: 2011/09/10 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

•647 Social Security Numbers, of which 418 were unique;
•42 Credit Card and Bank Account Numbers, of which 26 were unique;
•174 Passwords;
•83 Driver License Numbers;
•6,182 Dates of Birth;
•78,869 Phone Numbers, of which 14,701 were unique;
•10,175 Personal Postal Addresses, of which 4,631 were unique; and
•325,596 e-mail addresses, of which 39,419 were unique.

http://gizmodo.com/5838816/that-anonymous-cop-leak-was-much-worse-than-we-thought

NFL Player Thinks Football Stadiums Are Too Quiet Because Everybody Is Playing with Their iPads

Posted: 2011/09/10 in Education / Awareness

http://gizmodo.com/5838915/nfl-player-thinks-football-stadiums-are-too-quiet-because-everybody-is-playing-with-their-ipads

If the MPAA was really concerned about filmmakers, it would help them embrace these new platforms that help them make money. Not line them up in a witchhunt for new Boston Stranglers

Posted: 2011/09/10 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Legislation

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110908/16234115852/mpaa-mocks-entrepreneurs-being-concerned-about-mpaas-efforts-to-stifle-innovation.shtml

Any company whose business model focuses on litigation is not contributing positively to society and innovation. There are times to file a lawsuit, but when that becomes central to your business model, something is broken

Posted: 2011/09/10 in Education / Awareness, Litigation

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110906/19274615832/if-your-business-strategy-relies-suing-others-youre-not-business-youre-leech-system.shtml

The Washington Declaration On Intellectual Property And The Public Interest… Which Politicians Will Ignore

Posted: 2011/09/10 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Public Policy
  • Valuing Openness and the Public Domain
  • Strengthening Limitations and Exceptions
  • Setting Public Interest Priorities for Patent Reform
  • Supporting Cultural Creativity
  • Checking Enforcement Excesses
  • Requiring Evidence-based Policy Making

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110909/02110315863/washington-declaration-intellectual-property-public-interest-which-politicians-will-ignore.shtml

An Indiana man was sentenced to 14 years in prison for selling counterfeit payment cards that caused more than $3 million in losses

Posted: 2011/09/10 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/09/carder_sentenced/

Update from #GlobalSign. Today we found evidence of a breach to the web server hosting the www website

Posted: 2011/09/10 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness

http://www.tweetdeck.com/twitter/globalsign/~UoiqB

With Flash Media Server 4.5, media publishers can extend their already broad mobile reach via Flash-enabled devices, with the new ability to deliver video content to Apple’s iPad and iPhone devices, enabling them to reach the widest audience possible

Posted: 2011/09/10 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech Evolution

http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20110907007466/en/Adobe/IBC/Flash-Media-Server

Mebromi, a bios-flashing trojan

Posted: 2011/09/10 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection

http://blogs.norman.com/2011/malware-detection-team/mebromi-a-bios-flashing-trojan

A European Union official told the press agency that “Although some countries are opposed, it seems likely that copyright protection will be extended to 70 years.”

Posted: 2011/09/10 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Legislation, Public Policy

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/home/blog-post/2011/09/10/eu-debate-on-extending-term-of-copyright-protection-may-benefit-artists.html

Dutch Minister of Justice Ivo Opstelten: Yes, American cloud providers are handing personal details of Dutch citizens to US authorities – even if the data is stored on European servers and in European datacenters – because they are required to do so by law if their headquarters are in the USA. They are also required to keep their mouths shut about it, so I do not know how often this is happening. As this is affecting all EU Member States, I leave it to the European Commission to deal with it

Posted: 2011/09/10 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, The Cloud

The Minister adds that he does not believe that this undermines EU data privacy regulations. He is not planning to investigate the matter because this is an issue that affects the entire EU, so the European Commission should be the one talking to the US government about this. He also is unable to have the Dutch Data Protection Authority investigate it because they supposedly are an independent organization and set their own agenda and priorities.

Dutch language news article:
http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/107879/minister-weet-niet-waar-nederlandse-data-blijft.html

Twitter hackers spread Ground Zero attack scare before account suspension – ‘Hacktivist’ group had hacked into NBC’s account and tweeted false news about plane crash at New York’s Ground Zero

Posted: 2011/09/10 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Network Security

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/10/twitter-hackers-ground-zero-scare