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In-flight entertainment

By moosteri

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April 30, 2012
Categories : Social Web

While writing this blog, I am at 11 km up in the air, travelling at 816 km/h. Sitting in a comfortable seat and realising I am surrounded bij ICT systems I am glad none of them offer me connectivity to the world below that is passing by on the...
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Does the news define your cyber security policy?

By moosteri

October 20, 2011
Categories : Security

Recent incidents around cyber security have taught us a few things: Stuxnet and its recent offspring called Duqu show how advanced modern cyber threats have become. Apparently, cyber threats can reach out to places were bombs can’t go and do...
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l'histoire se répète

By moosteri

June 13, 2011
Categories : Web

On Twitter, Mikko Hypponen wonders about Lulzsec’s motive for doing what they are doing these days. There is little money to be made from their activities and as opposed to Anonymous Lulzsec doesn't seem to be about hacktivism.I guess this goes...
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Information Security, a long way to maturity

By moosteri

June 8, 2011
Categories : Security

As an information security professional, I do my best in making things as secure yet user-friendly as possible. I would say the ultimate goal of security professionals should be to make use of IT intrinsically secure: users should be protected...
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Responsibility and responsible disclosure

By moosteri

March 20, 2011
Categories : Security Web

Earlier this month a story went round that the GCHQ (responsible for Britain’s SIGINT activities) wants to monitor Britain’s most vital private networks for unusual network traffic. Prime Minister David Cameron invited a number of large companies...
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The G-factor

By moosteri

February 16, 2011
Categories : Security Web

Last week, Google introduced two-factor authentication to the masses. In short, this means that you can have your Gmail account protected by something you know (a password) and something you posses (e.g. a phone). With the continuous threat of...
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Taking things for granted

By moosteri

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February 7, 2011
Categories : Security

Apple is often criticised on how they try to control what happens to their products. But one company has been strictly controlling what happens to its products for much longer: Microsoft. Microsoft keeps very strict control on what gets delivered via...
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