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Clueless about the Internet

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UK Prime Minister David Cameron is in the US trying to get President Barack Obama to help him stop people being beastly on the Internet. And he’s also using the opportunity to prove to the world, once and for all, that he hasn’t even the faintest idea how the Internet works. Cameron wants to ban messaging apps that use end-to-end… Read more »

Inching ahead in the cyber crime war

In the popular American Football movie ‘Any Given Sunday’, a near burnt-out coach played by Al Pacino somehow digs out an inspirational half-time speech in a crucial game that turns his team’s fortunes and his own life around. His theme is that, in sport and in life, the gap between success and failure is measured in inches and you have… Read more »

The US cyberwar on China

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If you’re the type of person prone to conspiracy theories, you might conclude that the US administration is currently doing the cyberspace equivalent of sailing a gunboat up the Yangtze and firing off some warning shots. We’ve just seen a report submitted to Congress by the Department of Defense (DoD) directly naming (for the first time at this level) China… Read more »

Profiting from our vulnerability

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Security is a business and those of us who make a living from it, in some form or other, effectively profit from the fact that vulnerabilities get exploited by bad people. But is there a moral or ethical limit to how you turn insecurity into money? ReVuln, a security company based in Malta, claims to have found nine zero-day vulnerabilities… Read more »