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International Collaboration on Policies for Cybersecurity and Data Protection
Since a few years we are working with the Council of Europe in a partnership to help to drive a Cybersecurity treaty. We realize that a problem a lot of Law Enforcement agencies have is inconsistent legislation which makes is unbelievably hard to catch Read More...
Russian Roulette with your Network
First of all, before I really start, I hope that you all had a great start in 2009. Mine was actually pretty mixed. The good side was, how my year really started and what I saw when I looked out the window at January 1st (yes, I was on vacation skiing Read More...
Spying on Smartphones
I was recently at an event for Law Enforcement where one of the discussion points was how critical it is to protect Smartphones – actually it was more about how easy to would be to claim that my Smartphone was hacked and how proof can be found. That you Read More...
Security Risks in the Supply Chain?
At the moment I am travelling through the Gulf in order to launch the Security Intelligence Report v5 with local data. During one of the discussions today, a question was raised which I was thinking about quite some while (but – honestly - do not have Read More...
Risk of Outsourcing (and Security Outsourcing)
I am often asked about the risks of outsourcing (we often talk about processes, legal risks (e.g. Data Protection), etc.) – the list is very long. Today I read an article which touches a completely different issue: It is all about the security processes Read More...
Rent a Botnet on eBay (Part 2)
You might have seen my recent blogpost on the botnet on eBay. They have seen it (we briefly touched base on that) and – now it's gone: Cool stuff! Roger Read More...
Why I do not like e-Voting (Part 2)
As you might know, I blogged on e-Voting recently ( Why I do not like e-Voting ) and got quite some reactions. A few here but most of them privately. Most of you seem to like e-Voting. Now, think again! Look at this article here Evaluating the Security Read More...
Selling Vulnerabilities and Ethics
Shoaib just blogged on Hacking & Security Community - Ethical or Unethical? . To start with: I do not claim that I know all about ethics and that there is only one view on ethics but I have a clear view on certain things. I blogged on this theme several Read More...
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Support for Law Enforcement and COFEE
Over the last few weeks there has been a lot of chatter about a tool we provide in a Beta version to Law Enforcement called COFEE: Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor. Let me give you some information on COFEE and put it into the proper context. Read More...
What can you do if you are a victim of e-crime?
I think that there is a very good example of how a platform could be offered for victims of cyber crime. There are often questions around: What are my rights? What can I do if something bad happens? Who is here to help?... www.e-victims-org offers answers Read More...
Be Careful Whom You Trust
When I talk to customers I sometimes ask them, whether they do background checks on whom they hire as employees or contractors. If it comes to security, the whole theme gets pretty sensitive. Imaging that you hire an employee to deal with your security Read More...

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