Samsung warnt: Bitte achten Sie darauf, nichts Privates vor unseren SmartTVs zu erzählen
via netzpolitik.org.
Category: Security & Privacy
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Samsung warnt.
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GnuPG funded.
Since Werner Koch announced he’s running out ouf money yesterday, GnuPG collected 60k$ from the Linux Foundation, another 50k$ for the next year from each Facebook and Stripe, and a total of 150k$ from the community. Development should be safe for the next time. The news of the past days shows that security, while heavily discussed, needs proper funding.
via Slashdot.
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Data and Goliath
Data and Goliath Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Bruce Schneier wrote a book about Big Data, mass surveilance and the Internet of Things. Schneier talks about how this effects society and what to do about the increasing datarization of everything we’re doing.
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Why monitoring is hard
(and why your vendor will only sell you tools, not solutions)
Intro
Monitoring infrastructure in a meaningful way is important to any IT operations, yet it is hard to realize. Many vendors adress this problem and promise a silver bullet.
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DDoS attacks are getting easier
Search CloudSecurity writes DDoS Attacks are becoming easier, cheaper, more frequent and more varied.
Hybrid DDoS prevention emerges to counter variety of DDoS attacks.
via
DDoS attacks are getting easier to perform, leading to larger, more frequent, costly attacks against enterprises http://t.co/wxjExVHcIg
— IEEE Cybersecurity (@ieeecybsi) February 2, 2015
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Plenumstreffen Sicherheitsnetzwerk München
Plenumstreffen 2015
Des Sicherheitsnetzwerkes München.
Am 22. Januar traf sich das Plenum des Sicherheitsnetzwerkes München.
Agenda der Veranstaltung, die von Peter Möhring, Leiter der Geschäftsstelle, und Dr Kathrin Jaenicke, geleitet wurde, beinhaltete im wesentlichen den Rückblick auf das vergangene Jahr wie auch die Perspektive auf das kommende Jahr.
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XSS with a book.
In Safari Books.
https://twitter.com/fmavituna/status/555769470321688576
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Virtual Crime in Numbers
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Januar 10, 2015
Internet-related crime stats “Sueddeutsche Zeitung” has an infographic on Internet related crimes. The numbers displayed are about services targeted by phishing, which is unsurprisingly lead by email, the number of malware circulating, monetary value of damages through criminal activity, most hacked passwords and finally origin of attacks. Source for these numbers are quoted on the bottom right: Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, Bundeskriminalamt, Kaspersky Lab and Deutsche Telekom.
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Top Influencers in Security
Tripwire has a recommendation of Security Influencers to follow in 2015, along with their Twitter handle. While I second all of the recommendations, it is particularily notable that 3 out of these 15 names work – or have worked – for Akamai. These guys are @BillBrenner70, @gattaca and @JOSHCORMAN. Every individual on the list had the opportunity to answer, which infosec-related superpower he would unlock, which makes the list a bit of an entertaining read, too.Top Influencers in Security You Should Be Following in 2015.
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