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Feds use keylogger to thwart PGP, Hushmail
January 19th, 2010 | Author: Haider al-Khateeb
by Declan McCullagh
“A recent court case provides a rare glimpse into how some federal agents deal with encryption: by breaking into a suspect’s home or office, implanting keystroke-logging software, and spying on what happens from afar.
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IT security pros don’t use passwords on their business smartphones
January 13th, 2010 | Author: Haider al-Khateeb
IT security professionals are only marginally more likely to use passwords than standard users, according to a new survey.
A concerning 35 per cent said that they just don’t get around to using a password on their business smartphones, compared to 40 per cent of the general population. Read the rest of this entry »
Statistics from 10,000 leaked Hotmail passwords
January 13th, 2010 | Author: Haider al-Khateeb
by Bogdan Calin
An anonymous user posted usernames and passwords of over 10,000 Windows Live Hotmail accounts to a web site called PasteBin. PasteBin is currently down for maintenance but I managed to get a copy of the list, and quickly generated some statistics from these passwords. Read the rest of this entry »
ICANN Approves Arabic, Chinese and other languages to be used in Domain Names
January 13th, 2010 | Author: Haider al-Khateeb
Seoul: The first Internet addresses containing non-Latin characters from start to finish will soon be online thanks to today’s approval of the new Internationalized Domain Name Fast Track Process by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers board. Read the rest of this entry »
UK can now demand data decryption on penalty of jail time
January 8th, 2010 | Author: Haider al-Khateeb
“A controversial provision in the UK’s Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) allows investigators to demand access to cryptographic keys or fully decrypted data. Failure to comply leads to jail time”
