"The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards - and even then I have my doubts. - Gene Spafford"
Video: DarkMarket
Author Misha Glenny was interviewed by broadcast journalist Charlie Rose recently. The majority of discussion was based on Misha's current book, DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You.
The interview is 20 minutes long, a provides an excellent summary of the threats currently facing the Internet.
How to Explain Man-in-the-Browser Attacks
With a 2-minute video, BBC News program "Click" does a very decent job explaining to the laymen how banking trojans such as ZeuS attempt to avoid detection by antivirus software:
During the call, which is currently posted on YouTube, members of the USA's FBI can be heard discussing several Anonymous and LulzSec related cases with investigators from the UK.
Today's leak helps explain just how "Anonymous Sabu" (leader of the LulzSec group) appeared to have insider information regarding the postponement of Jake Davis a.k.a. Topiary's (LulzSec member) trial on January 27th.
Sabu appeared to have some sort of insider information.
And in fact, he did… Topiary's trial date and its delay was discussed during the conference call.
Anonymous has promised additional FBI related releases today. Those could also be quite interesting as it appears that an active member of the FBI's e-mail has somehow been compromised…
Stay tuned.
On 03/02/12 At 11:33 AM
Laptop Stickers 2012: Vote!
Several weeks ago, we asked members of our community forums, and our blog readers to submit ideas for a new set of F-Secure Labs Laptop Stickers. Well, we finally find some time to pick the finalists.
You can see them, and vote for 10 of your favorites, on polldaddy.com.
The poll will be open for at least another week, so please feel free to share, tweet, et cetera.
And then of course we'll figure out some kind of way for folks to win a copy of the final set.
Cheers!
On 02/02/12 At 04:37 PM
Seems Legit
Here's a clip from a US TV show called "Bones".
In a recent episode, a computer virus crashes a computer. And sets it on fire. The virus got in via a fractal. Embedded on a bone of a shooting victim.
