Anyone working in cryptography research now needs to consider themselves a potential target for state-sponsored cyber-attack, even from countries who you might consider to be on the same side as you.

Published February 2, 2014 3:17 pm in Encryption, Law & order, Malware 0
Anyone working in cryptography research now needs to consider themselves a potential target for state-sponsored cyber-attack, even from countries who you might consider to be on the same side as you.
Published November 12, 2013 4:43 am in Law & order, LinkedIn, Malware, Phishing, Privacy 0
If you work for Belgacom, or any other company of interest to GCHQ and the NSA, perhaps you shouldn’t visit LinkedIn.
Published October 18, 2013 10:44 pm in Law & order, Mobile, Privacy, Vulnerability 1
Belgacom, Belgium’s largest telecom company, has said it is investigating a new hacking attempt against its systems…
…just one month after it was revealed that GCHQ planted spyware on its servers.
Published September 20, 2013 3:58 pm in Law & order, Malware, Mobile, Privacy, Vulnerability 0
UK intelligence planted malware on Belgacom’s computer systems, according to newly leaked documents.
Belgacom, the largest telecoms company in Belgium, has announced today that its systems were hacked into, and that it found “an unknown virus in a number of units in [its] internal IT-system.”
Could it be an intelligence agency that hacked them?
Published July 31, 2011 6:11 pm in Facebook, Guest blog, Law & order, Naked Security, Social networks, Video 0
Do you take enough care over who you make your Facebook friend?
A supermarket manager learnt a lesson the hard way, after he struck up a friendship with a woman on Facebook. Little did he know, that when she invited him to a dinner date at her apartment, something else entirely was planned.