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  • Blog Post: Mutual Authentication in Real Life–Launching a Nuclear Missile…

    rhalbheer
    A few years ago, I wanted to run an exercise with our incident response team in Switzerland. A customer, the government and me came together to develop the goals and the scenario. One of the key question we tried to answer together with the university, which we wanted to use as observers was, whether...
    on 30 Mar 2011

  • Blog Post: Notebook searches at a country border

    rhalbheer
    I guess you still know the discussions a while ago where it was made public that notebooks can be searched without suspicion when you cross the border to the US. Actually the truth is, that this can happen everywhere as far as I understand. To be clear: I am not a lawyer, I am an engineer. However, when...
    on 14 Jun 2010

  • Blog Post: Should the Government be able to enforce security updates?

    rhalbheer
    This is actually an interesting question. A lot of governments enforce rules and regulations on how you have to run your car, how often you have to check it, in which condition you have to keep your tires etc. The same is true for a lot of other devices we are using. Now, it seems that the US just...
    on 13 Jun 2010

  • Blog Post: Do we Need Special Laws?

    rhalbheer
    Well, yes we need Cybersecurity Legislation without doubt but sometimes the legislator goes too far in my opinion. I read this article this morning: Use Google Street View Maps & Serve More Time. I quote: The state legislature in the U.S. state of Louisiana has passed a law adding extra time for...
    on 2 Jun 2010

  • Blog Post: A Detailed Analysis of an Attack – Do We Need an International Incident Sharing Database?

    rhalbheer
    I recently came across a paper called Shadows in the Cloud , which is actually a follow-up report of Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network , an investigation of the attacks on the office of the Dalai Lama and some governmental bodies. The report is written by two bodies who had the...
    on 21 Apr 2010

  • Blog Post: What we can learn for the volcanic cloud for information security

    rhalbheer
    I am one of the grounded people. Luckily for me, I would have had to fly out today and am now “stuck” at home. It is not so fortunate for the event organizer which has a significant amount of sessions he has to do on LiveMeeting now. On the other hand, maybe that this is the future for a lot of travels...
    on 19 Apr 2010

  • Blog Post: Council of Europe: We need ONE Cybercrime Convention

    rhalbheer
    As you saw from previous posts, I am at the Octopus Conference on Cooperation against Cybercrime at the moment. We had yesterday the Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe and one of her key statements was that different bodies (like the Council of Europe, UN etc.) should not compete. The...
    on 24 Mar 2010

  • Blog Post: Council of Europe – Octopus Conference (Cooperation against Cybercrime) Day 1

    rhalbheer
    A few years ago, the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime was signed within the Council of Europe. Since then it was ratified all across the globe by a lot of countries or at least used as the base for legislation. Since a few years as well, the Council of Europe is organizing a conference on Cooperation...
    on 23 Mar 2010

  • Blog Post: Legal Challenges of International Business and the Cloud

    rhalbheer
    To start with: I am an engineer not a lawyer – and this might be part of the problem… When I started to think about the Cloud and security and thought about all the work I do with Law Enforcement and the challenges they face. Additionally, I started to think about the legal challenges we – as an industry...
    on 9 Mar 2010

  • Blog Post: Algeria: Conference on Certification (eID)

    rhalbheer
    When I tweeted last week that I am on my way to Algeria, I got quite some reactions and questions that I shall report how it was. So, let me try to briefly summarize my impressions. I was invited to speak at a conference on certification in Algiers. Well, initially I pushed back as I did not understand...
    on 17 Dec 2009

  • Blog Post: Kaspersky’s View of a Secure Internet – Does this make sense? I think not

    rhalbheer
    A few months ago, I already had some discussions with Eugene Kaspersky during an event of the Council of Europe on Cybercrime, how to address cybercrime on the Internet. At the moment, I am at a very, very slot connection and just got, what I saw on my RSS feed enclosure and could not verify the whole...
    on 19 Jul 2009

  • Blog Post: Get Safe Online – This Week

    rhalbheer
    We see this concept all over Europe: There are National Security Awareness Days (or how ever they are called) in a lot of European countries. During these events, the industry (from software to banking to government to …) gets together to raise awareness on the most important trends, criminals explore...
    on 18 Nov 2008

  • Blog Post: Hacking is destroying economic growth

    rhalbheer
    As usual (and probably as most of you) I started today scanning through my mails and RSS feeds for important and urgent information. By doing that, I stumbled across an article called Hackers and Nigeria vulnerability to cyber terrorism and I started to read it. As you know, I blogged several times...
    on 26 Sep 2008

  • Blog Post: Why I do not like e-Voting

    rhalbheer
    As you know, I am Swiss. Switzerland is known as being one of the most direct democracies in the world. It is not uncommon for us having (or being allowed) to vote every other month as there are a lot of ways to influence what our politicians and/or our government does. This makes the system often pretty...
    on 30 Aug 2008
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