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- Haephrati in Israel
- According to Reuters Michael and Ruth Haephrati, the creators of the Trojan that was used by Israeli firms to spy on each other see my posts have finally been extradited to Israel. I wish I could hear the interview they gave to an Israeli TV station where Michael Haephrati...
- Tags: Ruth Haephrati, investigator
- Blog posts 2006-01-31
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- Bill Gates: Saving the world is easier than saving Microsoft?
- I was shocked when I first heard that Bill Gates was going to move much of his time away from Microsoft and devote it to giving away money. MSFT is doing well financially but its short to long term prospects are challenging to say the least. The...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Google vs. Microsoft game is afoot
- GPLMedicine advocate Fred Trotter right has given some inspection to both Google Health and Microsoft's HealthVault, coming down solidly on Google's side. Trotter writes that Google Health's privacy policies and APIs are superior to those of Microsoft HealthVault, and its access control system looks better. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Flaw, Trotter, Games, Security, Personal Technology, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- Cyber Defcon 4
- I am preparing my next road show pitch. My past presentations have followed a pattern. There is one slide I have been using for seven years now, ever since I joined Gartner as an analyst as a matter of fact. It is the Threat Hierarchy slide. It lists...
- Tags: Attack, Security, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- Haephrati technique used to crack US research lab
- The New York Times is reporting that they obtained a copy of a report from US-CERT that attacks eminating from Chinese IP addresses successfully targeted employees of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. In addition to research in energy, nanotechnology and "isotope production", Oak Ridge ...
- Tags: Technique, New York Times Co., Attack, Homeland Security, Nanotechnology, Wiki, Security, Government, Emerging Technologies, Online Communications, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- An odd side-effect of music piracy
- I am on an active quest to learn Spanish, which is a bit complicated at times, as I often find that my developing Spanish language skills mixes with my French to become Franglish (Je suis tres cansado, pero...). I guess Spanish goes into my "other languages" mental database, and sometimes...
- Tags: Piracy, Music, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-11-19
- AAPL has out performed GOOG
- Did you see this? John Murrell over at "Good Morning Silicon Valley" writes: So it must have been with an exhilarating sense of satisfaction that Steve Jobs and the Apple brass watched another dazzling set of quarterly financials push the company's stock price up...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
- Mattel sues porn site over use of Barbie name
- Mattel sues porn site over use of Barbie nameFunny ...I never knew children were allowed to look at porn sites. I thought ol, materialistic Barbie would fit right in.Another funnyShe doesnt look anything like the barbie doll that Mattel produces. I checked the site and even looked at its...
- Tags: Wiki, Mattel Inc., Barbie, doll
- Discussion threads 2007-08-22
- The Trojan Horse iPhone
- The Telcos have become the biggest obstacle to the development of new technologies and services. They have become the most backward elements in our society when it comes to rolling out new technologies, applications, and services. They have filed lawsuits to stop public wireless networks, and they constantly seek to...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Enterprise IT, Disruptive, APPL
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- Census employees inadvertantly post citizen data
- The Census Bureau posted personal information from 302 households on a public Internet site multiple times over a five-month period, the bureau said today, the AP reports. Names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and family income ranges, but not Social Security numbers, said spokeswoman Ruth Cymber. "A...
- Tags: Government technology, Privacy
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- DE: More money needed to comply with Real ID
- Even with the new extensions and funding for Real ID, Delaware will have a hard time meeting the laws requirements, some state officials say, according to the DE News Journal. For one thing, the federal government hasnt actually released any new money. Department of Homeland Security Michael...
- Tags: Government technology, Homeland security, State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
- Screen gallery: With Vista and IE7's one-two security punch, will the Web be harder to use?
- Screen gallery: With Vista and IE7's one-two security punch, will the Web be harder to use?Reminds me......of...wait. Yes, I've got it. Confusion.If someone with your obvious technical facile is having difficulty, what is the 'average joe' or 'average josette' to do???Well. There it is.The average user doesn't default...
- Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Web browsers, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Web, Microsoft Windows Vista, Schare, UAC, whitelist, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, security
- Discussion threads 2007-02-21
- MacWorld: The Apple/Sony iDog...
- Monday evening at Cafe de Presse in downtown SF I bumped into a bunch of Apple people and several dozen European reporters here for CES and Apples MacWorld.It speaks to the power of Apple ,and the Steve Jobs brand, that despite CES promoting itself as the center of the digital...
- Tags: Humor/Parody, APPL, Macworld, Sony, Apple Computer Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-08
- Changes in store for ThreatChaos
- I just spent nine months as an independent analyst covering the IT security space. You will have noticed that in addition to posting about the threats and rise of cyber crime I began to cover the security industry as well. When I originally started to write Threatchaos I was...
- Tags: Secure Network Fabric, security, network security, network
- Blog posts 2006-11-28
- Un-talked about threats
- I have a slide I used to use in my stump pitch that detailed the use of the Haephrati Trojan. My theme was that your existing anti-malware products were completely unable to defend against the simplest custom Trojan. As I have written before, custom Trojans are like the automatic lockpick...
- Tags: custom Trojan, TROJANS
- Blog posts 2006-10-17
- Filmmaker, Filmmaker make me a film
- And Lionhead Studios now owned by Microsoft, as it turns out, means that pretty literally. My last post triggered a fascinating discussion in the comments about what one may or may not do with machinima films created using The Movies. The Movies is a unique combination of...
- Tags: Games, Game Movies, filmmaker, game
- Blog posts 2006-09-26
- Legal Innovation Breeds Artistic Ecosystem
- Legal Innovation Breeds Artistic EcosystemMessage has been deleted.CoolFaith Hill has a concert on DVD When the Lights God Down. I basically like the DVD, but I would rather have the opportunity to edit out a lot of the talking that’s in it, and redo the chapters so that I can...
- Tags: Games, Corporate communications, Game Movies, Denise, game, Faith Hill
- Discussion threads 2006-09-21
- Legal innovation breeds artistic ecosystem
- What do you get when you cross: a good musician, Creative Commons, ...
- Tags: Jonathan Coulton
- Blog posts 2006-09-21
- Michale Haephrati responds
- Michale Haephrati respondsA dangerous tool in anybody's hands.[i]Will US law enforcement be able to get warrants for infiltrating a suspect's computer with a Trojan horse? Are they already doing that?[/i]Big Brother is probably doing it already... [i][b]without[/b][/i] warrants. Not to gather evidence, but to plant it. If they...
- Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, trojan horse, escalation
- Discussion threads 2006-09-13
- Michael Haephrati responds
- I received the following email from Michael Haephrati, the creator of the Trojan that was used by Israeli Private Investigators to steal confidential information from dozens of companies. Michael provides a completely different perspective on the entire drama from any of my previous coverage. He asked me to post...
- Tags: Michael Haephrati, trojan horse
- Blog posts 2006-09-13
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