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Enterprise Security Tips

24 February 2010

PC World, 23 Feb 10: Whether your business is a big fish or a small-fry home office, you can get hacked just the same, and the stakes are higher than a few canceled credit cards. Here are a few tips to protect your users and your networks–steps that even enterprise-class security specialists may slip up [...]

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Four Signs of an Easy Victim on Social Networks

16 February 2010

CSO, 15 Feb 10: Earlier this month, CSO reported that cybercrime attacks on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn have exploded, according to a recent survey conducted by security firm Sophos(See: Facebook, Twitter, Social Network Attacks Tripled in 2009).
Reports of malware and spam rose 70 percent on social networks in the last 12 months and 57 percent [...]

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The spycatcher who broke UK enemies the old British way – with charm, country walks and custard creams

12 February 2010

Daily Mail, 12 Feb 10: He was, in many ways, the perfect spook. Tall, thin, moustachioed and pipe-smoking, with a polite, unassuming demeanour, William ‘Jim’ Skardon was one of the crowd. He blended in. You couldn’t mistake him for anything but an old-school gent in a raincoat and a trilby hat.
And if he came calling, [...]

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How The Hackers Took Google: A Theory

8 February 2010

The Atlantic, 6 Feb 10: Fred Chang has a theory about how hackers affiliated with the Chinese government hacked into Google and at least two dozen other major American companies. Chang is a professor of computer science at the University of Texas — so we should listen to him. But he is also the former [...]

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Social engineering was key to Google hack

26 January 2010

Financial Times, 25 Jan 10: Personal friends of employees at Google, Adobe and other companies were targeted by hackers in a string of recently disclosed cyberattacks, raising privacy concerns and pointing to a highly sophisticated operation, security experts said. Cybersecurity experts analysing the attacks said the hackers spied on individuals and used other sophisticated techniques, [...]

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Interviewing Kim Philby and drinking with the KGB

22 December 2009

The Tribune, 22 Dec 09: . . . . I had feelers out everywhere, and eventually got a call from somebody who said he represented something called the Soviet Copyright Agency.
We met in a bar and he told me that an interview was “not impossible” to arrange, subject to a few rules. First, the interview, [...]

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Sex, Spies, and Audiotape: What to Watch Out For on Your Official Trip to China

3 December 2009

Epoch Times, 2 Dec 09: Ian Clement said he should have known better when he travelled to the Beijing Olympics in 2008 as London’s deputy mayor. He had been briefed by Britain’s intelligence service, but he didn’t listen.
“They told me about honeytraps and warned me that the Chinese secret service often use women to entice [...]

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