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Pole Position: Poland Attacked by Anti-ACTA Hackers

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by Sean

January 23, 2012

There's breaking news coming out of Poland. Hackers, reportedly associated with Anonymous, have been attacking Polish government websites to protest this week's scheduled signing of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).

ACTA is an intellectual property treaty. Poland announced on January 19 that it would sign the treaty on January 26, 2012. A Twitter account called @AnonymousWiki called for action against the Polish government. All of this follows on the heels of SOPA protests and Anonymous attacks against US government websites due to the FBI's takedown of Megaupload.

What the heck is SOPA?

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by Sean

January 18, 2012

We're sure that most of you have at least heard of SOPA. Major websites such as Wikipedia have blacked out sections of their content today to raise awareness.

In some locations, Google has blacked out its logo. The concern of many speech and privacy advocates is that SOPA, which stands for Stop Online Piracy Act, greatly expands the legal authority of US government agencies to seize control of foreign hosted websites, in the name of combating piracy.

Cheap Professional DDoS Service

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by Sean

January 5, 2012

Now here's something that you don't see everyday, a YouTube video in which a young woman advertises DDoS services, with a smile.

Do you think like a German or a Pole?

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by Sean

January 3, 2012

Today we've been reading through a 208 page European Commission report called: Special Eurobarometer 359, Attitudes on Data Protection and Electronic Identity in the European Union.

One thing is very clear. European attitudes on digital privacy and identity vary greatly by culture, and even adjoining countries have some interesting differences. Which country's views most reflects your own?

440,783 "Silent SMS" Used to Track German Suspects in 2010

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by Sean

December 29, 2011

The 28th Chaos Communication Congress (28C3) is currently underway in Berlin and on Tuesday, researcher Karsten Nohl gave a presentation called: Defending mobile phones. If you have an hour, it's worth watching.

Initial press reports focused on Nohl's revelation that hackers can potentially sniff numerous phone IDs and network authentications from an advantageous point, and because network authentications aren't frequently refreshed (depending on the network operator), an attacker could make expensive premium rate calls and bill them to other persons. GSM network specifications allow for every network action to be re-authenticated, but that requires serious investment in authentication servers. So operators may only do it every third call. Or tenth. Or perhaps only when the phone connects to the network.

Anonymous Anonymous Claims Anonymous is Not Anonymous

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by Sean

December 27, 2011

You've probably heard about the stratfor.com hack by now. Anonymous claimed responsibility. Then Anonymous denied being responsible.

But then today, "Anonymous" claimed that the earlier anonymously posted pastebin post wasn't Anonymous, but was really Stratfor employees claiming to be Anonymous.

Java Exploit on Amnesty International's UK Site

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by Sean

December 23, 2011

'Tis the season for giving. And anybody visiting Amnesty International's UK website could currently end up with the gift of a keylogger courtesy a Java exploit. Brian Krebs has written about it on his blog: Krebs on Security.

Dead Software Walking: Update Now!

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by Sean

December 21, 2011

Some of our legacy software is approaching its end-of-life (EOL).

F-Secure has a long history of protecting its customers, and as a result, we have some long established customer relationships. And some of our customers have been running our software for years and years. But, just like any other software vendor, we have to stop support for old legacy products at some point.

ChatSend Spam Campaign on Both Facebook and Twitter

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by Sean

December 20, 2011

We're seeing a rather suspicious social spam run on both Facebook and Twitter today.

The social spam uses a bit.ly short link with various numerical parameters. And in an interesting move, the spam posts two links. (Perhaps this helps evade anti-spam filters?)

Rumors of Facebook Timeline Troubles

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by Sean

December 19, 2011

Facebook has started rolling out its new Timeline profile and over the weekend, here in Finland, there were some reports that private messages are being posted to users' profiles.

We have seen no solid evidence of this. And given that Facebook's Finnish translation is far from perfect, the whole thing could just be a misunderstanding. Here's an example of one translation we read today... Timeline profiles now include a new type of story called "Life Events". In the "Health & Wellness" category, there's an option for "Got Contacts". In Finnish, the word used is for contact info, rather than contact lenses.

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