Wikileaks has made sure its servers are bulletproof. Strike that. They’re now nuclear strike proof, literally. Wikileaks boss Assange is apparently not taking any chances with the wealth of documents that the site is sitting on. Their servers have been moved to the “Pionen”, a bunker in Stockholm, Sweden, built to withstand a nuclear strike. [...]
This is mildly interesting, although there seem to be more than a few pitfalls in the theory. Government agencies want to be able to identify skeletons (those in living humans, that is) from a distance of 50 meters (a meter is about the same as a yard, by the way), but that is proving to [...]
Deciding whether or not to reveal a security flaw, a loophole or a glitch is not easy. One point is where to begin if you’re really doing to spill your guts about them, simply because someone who works in security will know of hundreds, perhaps even thousands of both minor and major flaws in various [...]
It’s something that most people think little about. It’s something that corporations and companies think little about, and it’s something that is very dangerous to overlook. What is it? It’s unhappy security professionals. Perhaps one of the most dangerous group of people in the world right now are security professionals, and it’s not a small [...]
While president Obama faces hard choices and tough criticism about NYC’s new mosque, the world goes on. The ticket sharks formerly known as “Euroteam” aren’t the only ones peddling tickets and restricted information. An employee at FIFA has apparently put the security of 60.000 people at risk, selling their personal information on the black market, [...]