Guest Blog Post
Want your privacy back? Try disappearing
September 2, 2010
Danger and money. Those are the two reasons people choose to disappear, says professional skip-tracer Frank M. Ahearn. Think witness protection program. Or faking your death as part of a life insurance scam.
Ahearn helps find people for a living. He says he helps them vanish, too. He says he helped identify Monica Lewinsky as the intern dallying with President Bill Clinton. And he says he helped locate — and hide …More
A call for tech suppliers to embrace privacy principles
September 1, 2010
Fran Maier, president of TRUSTe, a San Francisco-based firm that certifies Web sites using privacy best-practices, recently lost her digital camera on a trip to Germany. In this LastWatchdog guest post, Maier describes how the use of her camera by the strangers who ended up with it underscores new privacy risks facing us all.
By …More
What companies should know about complying with data security rules
August 24, 2010
The need to comply with industry and federal regulations for keeping data secure drives a good part of what many big organizations spend on security. In this LastWatchdog guest blog post,Tim Harvey, CEO of Perimeter E-Securitym, outlines the basic considerations. Perimeter supplies compliance, security and messaging services.
By Tim Harvey
A need for renewed focus on risk …More
A call for de-escalating cyber espionage
August 17, 2010
Earlier this month, Sophos published its mid-year 2010 Security Threat Report, revealing some alarming attitudes in support of escalating cyber espionage. In this LastWatchdog guest post, Chet Wisniewski, Sophos senior security advisor, expresses his concerns about such attitudes.
By Chester Wisniewski
In the first half of 2010 two notable incidents raised awareness of cyber-war and …More
Why the challenges to stopping cybercrime remain daunting
August 16, 2010
It was encouraging to see many new security solutions and hear about new public-private partnerships, such as the drive to implement DNSSEC, at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas last month. In this LastWatchdog guest post, Tom Kellermann, Vice President of Security Awareness at Core Security, makes the case that the bad guys, however, remain far ahead.
Will Apple’s patch be in time to stem iPhone, iPad malicious attacks?
August 7, 2010
LastWatchdog has confirmed that Apple has now completed a patch for a milestone security flaw that makes it possible to remotely hack —or jailbreak — iOS, the operating system for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch.
But company spokeswoman Natalie Kerris told LW late Friday that she could give no hints about when the patch would go into wide public release.
“With regard to what you’re asking about, we’re aware …More
Noisy worms replaced by stealthy, targeted attacks
August 5, 2010
Marc Maiffret could have easily turned to the dark side as a youthful hacker. Instead, he became a leading vulnerability researcher and co-founder of eEye. He is credited with the 2001 discovery of Code Red, a primal worm, as recounted in this chapter of my book, Zero Day Threat. In this LastWatchdog guest post Maiffret reflects on how simple the threat landscape was back then …More