I have been at the Symposium on Privacy and Security today talking about security for small and medium businesses. Afterwards we had a panel discussion where one person asked about the changes in the threats from the internet.

Well, some of the are obvious:

• Up until recently there was no money involved. Mostly it was a question of "fun", curiosity and similar motivations. Since a few months you can earn money by hacking
• In the last few months we have seen targeted attacks meaning that a trojan is just written to attack one single person within a company to get access to confidential information.

Now the queston was brought up whether we will really want to have critical technology like Voice over IP on an environment like this.

What do you mean? How did it change? Is the Internet really THAT insecure and risky?

Roger

Three Chinese researchers have further refined an attack on the encryption standard frequently used to digitally sign documents, making the attack 64 times faster and leaving cryptographers to debate whether the standard, known as the Secure Hash Algorithm, should be phased out more quickly than planned.

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11292

Urs

When I talk to customers regarding Windows XP SP2  and the improvements we made in IE, they relate the security changes with the Pop-Up Blocker. But believe it or not - there is more......

If you are interested to learn about IE 6 SP2 security, check the whitepaper at microsoft.com

Roger

P.S: If you want to look into the future of IE, regularly check the IE 7 web site

There is an excellent (but lengthy) article about the people being behind Cyberwarefare. Think again: Are you protected against this level of attackers? Are government and law enforcement agencies ready to fight them? Do you even realize that your are attacked?

Read yourself: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1098961,00.html

Roger

I just saw the first news regarding arrests for Zotob: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050826/D8C7K9NO3.html

It seems that the work we are doing together with the different policies starts to pay off

Roger