This runs as a java applet on your side and also analyses traffic on the university of Berkely servers, giving you a good view of connection problems from both inside and outside of your network. It takes a few minutes to run though. ICSI Netalyzr.

It sends your personal information, can be commanded from remote servers and comes packaged with legal software in certain compromised Chinese Android marketplaces… The Official Lookout Blog | Security Alert: Geinimi, Sophisticated New Android Trojan Found in Wild.

So basically the huge investment into backscatter porno scanners was a huge waste of money (as we all knew). The threat was (once again) thwarted through the use of good old fashioned investigative work. Yemen Cargo Bombs Designed to Thwart DHS Detectors – Blog.

He’s also pissed off with all the technology being put into airports and the ignoring of human intelligence. Marijn Ornstein, the manager of security policy at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, said: “If you look at all the recent terrorist incidents, the bombs were detected because of human intelligence not because of screening … If even [...]

The system is not open enough and basically only offers the illusion of extra security. Don’t do it say the government advisors. Regeringsadviseur hekelt Nederland om vingerafdruk – UPDATE | Webwereld.

BLADE is a new Windows immunization system that prevents surreptitious drive-by download exploits from infecting vulnerable Windows hosts. BLADE is implemented as a series of kernel extensions, which interrupt the covert binary installation phase of current malware drive-by exploits. Ie. it checks if you authorised the download and execution of a file. via BLADE – [...]

The AIVD, the Dutch internal security police, have issued a warning that Dutch government and businesses are being spied on at an unprecedented rate, usually by trying to install trojans activated by email attachments. The spies are often foreign governments and China is being fingered specifically as a culprit. AIVD: Nederland steeds vaker digitaal bespioneerd [...]

We now have approximately 4,000 in the Federal Air Marshals Service, yet they have made an average of just 4.2 arrests a year since 2001. This comes out to an average of about one arrest a year per 1,000 employees.Now, let me make that clear. Their thousands of employees are not making one arrest per [...]

Well, they have tested the full body scanner on TV and the guy carrying bomb parts wasn’t stopped. And it’s not like he tried really hard to hide them either – they weren’t particularly small bomb parts and the only cavity he used was his mouth. Basically they’re just a huge invasion of privacy, an [...]

Don’t know if this will work in Europe, but in the US, a starter gun is considered a weapon. You simply declare you are carrying a weapon at baggage check in, they issue a little label you sign and they stick on the bag, and the bag doesn’t get rifled or checked, because the TSA [...]

It turns out that administering low-intensity shockwaves to the penis can help men with blood flow problems get over their difficulties getting a hard on. Viagra and Cialis help, but they need to keep taking the pills every time. This is a more permanent solution, because the shocks encourage the growth of new blood vessels [...]

Turns out that there is malware out there that downloads kiddie porn to your PC without you knowing – until the police pay you a friendly visit. Fortunately the download rate is something like 40 sites per minute, which is humanly impossible, but try explaining that away! AP IMPACT: Framed for child porn — by [...]

the way radio signals vary in a wireless network can reveal the movement of people behind closed doors. Joey Wilson and Neal Patwari have developed a technique called variance-based radio tomographic imaging which processes the signals to reveal signs of movement. They’ve even tested the idea with a 34-node wireless network using the IEEE 802.15.4 [...]

We should all know by now that the fingerprint biometric is a bad one: not only can you duplicate it fairly easily using just gummy bears, or increase the risk of having your finger cut off for you, they also give too many false negatives; some people will never be able to use fingerprint scanners. [...]

Because we all know how safe centralised government databases are, the Dutch are now preparing to store all fingerprints the get. At first this will happen per region and later all the databases will be linked and centralised. Dutch privacy organisations have protested at the EU, but they have declined the protest as the European [...]

The odds of a coin coming down heads or tails are not 50/50: they’re actually 51/49! A great precis of an article explaining why, and how to leverage it. The Coin Flip: A Fundamentally Unfair Proposition? – Coding the Wheel.

If you get breathalised, make sure the cop isn’t covering the exit port for the air when you blow, or the purported alcohol consumption will go up! Breath tests – Bing Video.

Even though they keep supporting Internet Explorer 6, they’re not going to support XP? Microsoft had stated the reason for continuing support for IE6 was that it came with Windows XP and so they had to keep supporting it. Now it turns out that they’re not supporting XP either. Not exactly their road map, but [...]

Using SQL injection and the recent IIS faults, a grey hat hacker called Unu from Romania has hacked 4 large banks and a UK government website. He’s on a roll, and MS has no fix for their IIS holes… Hacker ‘Unu’ valt Europese banken aan | Webwereld.

True to the Labour Governments’ form, yet ANOTHER serious data breach has been executed by government agencies. What’s surprising this time, is that it was done by a trained MI6 operative, who lost all the details about covert anti-drug operations in Columbia! Yes, that would be contact names, agent names and adresses and other details, [...]

If the government isn’t handing out your personal data on USB sticks, laptops or just through their unsecure own networks, they’ll dump computers containing your hospital and patient data unencrypted on the streets for you to take home with you. They can’t give it away fast enough! Now, let’s make a database with all the [...]

Not only does the UK seem to have an uncanny way of losing their huge centralised databases unencrypted, they also have a hand in losing the physical cards the data is supposed to go on. Which means that it won’t be a problem to fake ID’s in the UK, no matter what biometrics and clever [...]

Debian comes installed standard without much in the way of active security (such as a firewall, a file state checker, disk encryption, etc) but has got the packages to implement an actively secure environment. Given a little work you can securify Debian with existing packages quite nicely. This article has a nice list of the [...]

Researchers are allready looking into the security of quantum computers. Basically they throw up a castle of fake data and take the computer off the network for a loooooong time compared to normal computers. This is necessary due to the inherent fragility of the states of the qubits, but surprisingly doesn’t really contribute to slower [...]

Christopher Soghoian set up a site that allowed you to print your own boarding passes, exploiting a big hole in US domestic flight security, which allows anyone to board domestic flights without showing IDs if they allready have a boarding pass.