The Canadian Minister of Foreign Affaires, Maxime Bernier was forced to resign due to a scandal in his country: Sensitive information were disclosed. The problem was the Minister himself! He forgot documents classified “secret defense” in his girlfriend apartment. This is a big mistake but, unluckily for him, his girlfriend
Your iPhone has a Good Memory!
I don’t have a iPhone yet. I’m waiting for the version “2” which should support 3G networks. Take care if you sell your beloved iPhone to an untrusted person: Your phone (as any other PDA or mobile phone) knows everything about you: emails, calls, SMS, visited websites. When the owner
Will Finally IPv6 Arise?
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published a document to warn goverments and business about the near-future IPv4 addresses shortage. Actually 85% of the IPv4 address space of already assigned (total space is 2^32 == 4,294,967,296) and should be fully assigned by 2011! Of course, a lot of
Google Safe Browsing
Google is never miserly in innovations. Their labs is full of nice tools for all of us. Google Safe Browsing is a tool which helps you to identify potential unsafe websites. Queries are in format: http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=<your url> Example: http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=blog.rootshell.be.
The Backup Song
Yesterday — The Backup Song based on: The Beatles – Yesterday Yesterday, All those backups seemed a waste of pay. Now my database has gone away. Oh I believe in yesterday. Suddenly, There’s not half the files there used to be, And there’s a milestone hanging over me The system
A Chronology of Data Breaches
After the Bank of Ireland, the Ulster Bank also loose notebooks with customers information. Data breach becomes more and more an issue today: As all our personal data are stored in electronic form, it’s easy for employers to take data away to work at home or attend external meetings with
nsa.gov Offline During a Few Hours
The name servers hosting the National Security Agency (aka nsa.gov) were reported unavailable during a few hours around May the 15th. How is this possible? Let start some investigations using dig. When you query a root-server and ask for the name servers (NS records) of the nsa.gov zone, you receive
To Respect the Online Privacy
The Belgian law does not allow personal data (names, pictures, addresses, …) to be published online without the formal acceptance of the owner (Private life protection law). A few weeks ago, my youngest daughter visited a farm with her school and teachers took pictures. They would like to publish a
Sesame Ouvre Toi!
New gadgets appeared on the access-control market: the online or “e-door locks”! New devices can be locked or unlocked from any browser (notebook, mobile phone, …), change the code or review the activity log. Read the news here.
About the Estonian 2007 Cyber War
An interesting article about the cyber was which hit Estonia in 2007: http://www.ciaonet.org/journals/gjia/v9i1/0000699.pdf