http://securityinnovator.com/ en-us Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:01:24 -0500 editor@technologyinnovator.com http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16530&sectionID=25 For soldiers, smart phones have already begun to unleash torrents of ingenuity, with some designing new soldier-friendly applications, such as links to the video feed of the base security camera.... Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:02:48 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16531&sectionID=25 A great posting by Adam Elkus on his fascinating Rethinking Security blog; here are the first couple of propositions... 1. Most of what is described as cyberwar is not “war”... Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:26:58 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16329&sectionID=43 Editor's note: Samir Khan, the American-born jihadist and editor of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's (AQAP's) Inspire magazine, was killed on September 30 in the U.S. drone-attack on his... Sat, 01 Oct 2011 11:28:02 -0400 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16330&sectionID=43 Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical cleric and senior AQAP operative who was both a leading editorial voice and active contributor to Inspire magazine, was killed on September 30th in a CIA... Sat, 01 Oct 2011 06:13:05 -0400 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16333&sectionID=25 After speaking with IT administrators responsible for migrating physical servers to virtualized servers, I've noticed that this migration is just the stepping stone for enabling the broader move toward cloud... Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:11:35 -0400 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16326&sectionID=25 The modern data center is in transformation. Driven by industry trends in virtualization, cloud computing and green IT, data centers are now called upon to store, process and secure more... Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:13:19 -0400 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16324&sectionID=25 So now that you have an idea of how to use virtual banking and use it safely, it is time to move on to your phone! For this one, it... Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:07:27 -0400 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16323&sectionID=25 Continuing where I left off … McAfee recently released an online guide for Safe Virtual Banking to help users of all technical levels get the tips they need to use virtual... Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:46:39 -0400 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16322&sectionID=25 Visit any news site on the Web, and undoubtedly you’ll come across a barrage of articles publicizing the details of yet another data breach. With the prominence of SQL injection... Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:29:43 -0400 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16325&sectionID=25 As I mentioned last week, McAfee recently released an online guide for Safe Virtual Banking to help users of all technical levels get the tips they need to use virtual banking... Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:12:05 -0400 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16259&sectionID=25 Enterprises are not taking the threat of cyber espionage seriously enough, and many have not taken adequate steps to prevent an attack, according to Ovum. In a new study, the... Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:56:05 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16033&sectionID=29 The joint U.S.-Israel Arrow Weapon System successfully intercepted a ballistic target missile during a flight test conducted today. This test is part of the Arrow System Improvement Program (ASIP) and... Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:26:34 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16029&sectionID=25 This white paper examines the Night Dragon attacks, a series of coordinated covert and targeted cyberattacks that are being conducted against global oil, energy, and petrochemical companies. These attacks involve... Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:16:51 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16012&sectionID=43 Gene Sharp, an 83-year-old East Boston resident, has struck fear into some of the world’s worst dictatorships. The former professor’s writings on nonviolent protests found their way to the young... Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:01:23 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16024&sectionID=43 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT PROTEST AND PERSUASION Formal Statements 1. Public Speeches 2. Letters of opposition or support 3. Declarations by organizations and institutions 4.... Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:57:17 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16017&sectionID=43 The writings of Gene Sharp, an 83-year-old former Harvard researcher, include the widely distributed and translated how-to manual "From Dictatorship to Democracy" and have been used to promote nonviolent resistance... Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:21:08 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16016&sectionID=43 Srdja Popovic has a dream: a world where political change comes through nonviolent struggle. He started out as a pro-democracy activist in his native Serbia by founding the group "Otpor" (Resistance),... Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:18:27 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16013&sectionID=43 Gene Sharp is the world's foremost expert on non-violent revolution. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages, his books slipped across borders and hidden from secret policemen... Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:10:09 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16008&sectionID=43 When historians in future years grapple with the significance of the overthrow of the Mubarak regime in Egypt 10 days ago, coming as it did in the wake of the... Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:46:37 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16007&sectionID=43 Dressed in black, they stood in silence on the banks of the Nile River with their backs turned to Egypt. They had watched their homeland become a place of torture and... Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:42:58 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16004&sectionID=27 Just a few short weeks after publication of AQAP's second edition of Inspire magazine—the English-language jihadist publication providing the world with a fascinating and authentic insider's view from the jihadist... Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:53:54 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16015&sectionID=43 Many of the protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square say they found inspiration in the writings of 83-year-old US political theorist Gene Sharp. His works on non-violent revolution including From Dictatorship to... Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:15:04 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16002&sectionID=43 An unexpected wave of people-powered insurgencies, waged bravely by unarmed protesters against the many mightily-armed secular and theocratic dictatorships that span the Middle East and North Africa, has shaken the... Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:39:28 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16014&sectionID=43 The growing demands for political change in the Middle East are focusing new attention on Gene Sharp, a scholar in Boston, Massachusetts, who has spent his life researching non-violent protest... Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:12:52 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16023&sectionID=43 This article (NY Times login required) about Gene Sharp, already included in today's SWJ Roundup, probably warrants a special look  by our community.  It provides a brief intro to his body of work... Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:53:46 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16022&sectionID=43 For those who think that books can’t change the world, there’s a wonderfulpiece in yesterday’s Times about Gene Sharp, the eighty-three-year-old “shy intellectual” whose writings on nonviolent revolution have played... Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:46:08 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16020&sectionID=43 Already, movement analysts are exploring the extent to which Egypt’s 18-day epic was sheerly spontaneous or deliberately plotted. Any balance sheet, though, has to draw a line from Tahrir Square... Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:30:27 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16010&sectionID=43 Answering today’s OFF-SET questions is Gene Sharp, Senior Scholar at The Albert Einstein Institution. Sharp founded the Institution in 1983 and its mission is “to advance the worldwide study and strategic use of... Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:53:45 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16009&sectionID=43 A week ago, I noted that events in Egypt had once again shown the power of peaceful protest as opposed to guerrilla or terrorist attacks. Today the New York Times runs the... Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:50:08 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16019&sectionID=43 Halfway around the world from Tahrir Square in Cairo, an aging American intellectual shuffles about his cluttered brick row house in a working-class neighborhood here. His name is Gene Sharp. Stoop-shouldered... Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:28:55 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16040&sectionID=25 There is a lot of buzz in the security community lately about the merger of two widespread password-stealing malware families, Zbot (maker of Zeus) and SpyEye. Some reports says that the... Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:26:41 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16021&sectionID=43 Young Egyptian and Tunisian activists brainstormed on the use of technology to evade surveillance, commiserated about torture and traded practical tips on how to stand up to rubber bullets and... Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:36:58 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16018&sectionID=43 Sounds like it's a guy named Gene Sharp, whom I've only encountered speaking at relatively obscure Baltic gatherings. ... Here's a great 2008 Wall Street Journal profile of the man, who lives modestly... Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:23:10 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16034&sectionID=29 The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced today the availability for public comment of a Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for maintenance and repair of its Sea-Based X-Band (SBX) Radar Vessel. Potential environmental... Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:32:51 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16041&sectionID=25 Yesterday was “Safer Internet Day” in the European Union. To mark the occasion,Eurostat, the statistical office of the E.U., released a selection of statistics on Internet security: “Nearly one third of... Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:34:23 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16039&sectionID=29 10News investigative reporter Mitch Blacher asked, "Do you ever find things that are dangerous like a chemical agent or a weaponized device?"   "At the airport, seaport, at our port... Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:44:00 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16011&sectionID=43 With a new year comes a new round of Nobel prizes, and PRIO Director Kristian Berg Harpviken continues the tradition of speculating over who will win the peace prize this... Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:56:36 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16003&sectionID=43 Alaska and Canada, as we now know them, were born within a day of each other. The Treaty of Cession, by which Russia sold Alaska to America, was concluded on... Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:49:58 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16042&sectionID=25 One common technique used by malware researchers is to analyze a sample using virtual machines. In recent years, malware developers have created “checks” against environments and common malware-analysis tools. If the... Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:35:38 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16043&sectionID=25 We have noticed a lot of SMS-based web-phishing attacks in China targeting the Bank of China’s online users. They received a phishing SMS that is designed to look like it was... Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:37:00 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16044&sectionID=25 It’s always tough to get a ticket for Washington D.C.’s ShmooCon hacker conference. Just over 1,200 tickets were available in three rounds of ticket sales for the January 28-30 event. It’s a sign... Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:37:59 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16045&sectionID=25 In our recent “2011 Threats Predictions” report, McAfee Labs foresaw that the recent merger of Zeus with SpyEye would produce more sophisticated bots, due to improvements in bypassing security mechanisms and law... Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:38:59 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16046&sectionID=25 In December, I discussed the surprising relationship between some Anonymous group members and the Russian bulletproof hosting company heihachi.net. I summarized the Spamhaus warning concerning a particular WikiLeaks mirror–mirror.wikileaks.info (92.241.190.202), which is still not referenced... Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:40:00 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16047&sectionID=25 W32/Xirtem@@MM is a fast-spreading and active worm, discovered in late 2008, that uses a variety of methods to propagate. The principal way of infecting other machines is by sending a... Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:55:15 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16048&sectionID=25 McAfee Labs recently released our 2011 Threats Predictions. In this report we dust off the crystal ball, put on our battered Mr. Wizard hat, and speculate about potential threats for the coming... Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:56:21 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16030&sectionID=25 McAfee Labs' quarterly analysis of global email and web... Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:18:30 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16050&sectionID=25 The 27th Chaos Communications Congress (27C3), a computer security conference held in Berlin, has offered several good mobile and embedded security talks in the past few days. SMS-based vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities in mobile phone... Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:58:56 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16049&sectionID=25 The recent WikiLeaks disclosure of more than 250,000 U.S. State Department diplomatic cables got people worked up. Running opposite much public opinion, the main WikiLeaks defender in the hacktivism field... Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:57:36 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16052&sectionID=25 Hardly a day goes by that I don’t read the security news and shake my head. One article tells how thousands of records containing personally identifiable information were stolen from <insert... Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:01:11 -0500 http://securityinnovator.com/index.php?articleID=16051&sectionID=25 The second Tuesday of every month (“Patch Tuesday”) is a very busy day for information security warriors. They have to digest a flood of information from affected vendors (primarily Microsoft and... Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:00:08 -0500