The Blacklist Alternative
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As we have seen from previous blogs, blacklists are becoming more and more ineffective against an ever increasing malware and increasingly innovative criminal minds. A key point of Cisco’s John Stewart’s speech was his Data Analytics Is The Future slide. Essentially data analytics is a method of examining all logged data to create your normalised pattern and when this pattern changes have your systems locked down due to a suspected...
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Anonymous civil war as AnonOps sites are hacked
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Sony gives up on PS3 hacking lawsuit
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Sony said it reached a settlement with PS3 hacker George Hotz over his posting of the console's private key. In a post on the PlayStation blog, Sony Computer Entertainment America said: "The parties reached an agreement in...
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Anonymous issues call to arms for global protest
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Hacking law doesn't protect mail once it's read
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EFF Publishes Apple Apps Developer Document
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News Mobile & Telco
Employees continue to discuss sensitive business issues on mobile phones despite the fact that mobile phone encryption was cracked in recent weeks. A survey by voice encryption firm Cellcrypt found that fewer than 20% of people...
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Someone at Vodafone has been sacked after apparently mistaking his own personal Twitter or Facebook status with that of the biggest mobile networking company in the UK. Nearly 9,000 followers on Vodafone's twitter account...
Foreign Hackers Stole Climategate Emails Says Ex-Chief Scientist
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Unclear Wi-Fi Laws Damage UK Economy And Social Inclusion, Says Academic
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McKinnon renews appeal for UK trial
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The website which was hosting the infamous project, “The Pirates of the Amazon”, a Firefox extension that allows users to illicitly download games, TV shows, movies, and songs from Amazon.com, has been taken down,...

