ePsiLoN's Information Security Blog

Year: 2010

Wikirebels – wikileaks documentary Новото документално филмче за Wikileaks
ePsiLoN
12/29/2010
Random
I accidentally found a new Wikileaks documentary called Wikirebels and since it was nice made i decided to blog it. The movie itself doesn’t say anything new but is really good induction for people that didn’t followed the whole story (if any) or are missing the big picture. Enjoy! http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/wikirebels/
Plug computer 🙂
ePsiLoN
12/27/2010
Cloud and Infrastructure security, Physical security, Random, Security tools
While I was reading the shallow description of the plugbot (http://theplugbot.com/about) I was wandering if those guys are making the hardware itself. A bit of googleing answer my question – pretty sure they don’t. There is a separate project called Plugcomputer (plugcomputer.org) that gives an answer to most of my questions regarding the device. The…
Mozilla launches bug hunting program
ePsiLoN
12/17/2010
News, Random, Vulnerabilities and Vulnerability management
Bug hunting programs seem to gain more and more popularity those days. The new kid on the block is the Mozilla one, which official guidelines can be find on https://www.mozilla.org/security/bug-bounty.html So for all of you hunters I would like to wish you good luck and happy hunting 😉 Enjoy!
Ethical Hacker Network Season’s chalange
ePsiLoN
12/08/2010
Wargames & Challenges
Here it is folks, the new hacking challenge form Ethical Hacker Netowrk. The deadline is 03.01.2011 so hurry up and enjoy 🙂 http://www.ethicalhacker.net/content/view/344/2/<
Social networks, data mining and background checks
ePsiLoN
12/04/2010
Data Privacy, Random
Few days ago I had several conversations with different people on the same topic – social networks and the result of growing exhibitionism trends out there. Hopefully that article could bring some light on how powerful sources a social network can be. Enjoy
Interesting finding on the UK Company Encription website
ePsiLoN
11/15/2010
Wargames & Challenges
While checking my enormous bookmark list whit the intent to clean it from old and not that interesting links I found link to the recruitment page of English company called Encription. I do not remember what was their previous content but they now caught my attention with a small hacking challenge (really small & easy).…
Statistics and Crime reduction technologies
ePsiLoN
10/26/2010
Incident management, News, Random
IBM statistical based CRUSH system is going to be tested in real life: http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2010/07/26/police-to-use-%E2%80%9Cminority-report%E2%80%9D-style-crime-prediction-software/
Basic information security attack types
ePsiLoN
10/12/2010
Attacks
Purely technical The attacker count on weaknesses in protocol implementation, application, OS, firmware etc.. Those attacks can be easily automated and if the vulnerability is well known pretty easy to defend of. On the other hand the attack can come basically from any part of the world and is very hard to trace, because it…
Two career options in IS – is it possible to blend them?
ePsiLoN
10/05/2010
Learning and Information Security Career Development, Random
No matter if you want to be the best technical guru or you dream of becoming the greatest IS manager the information what is going on the other side will always keep you well balanced. This is the main idea put together in the Anton Chuvakin blog post. For a year or two I thought…
So far with the commercial quantum cryptography systems – HACKED
ePsiLoN
09/03/2010
Cryptography
I’m not too familiar with the quantum cryptography, but it seems neat to me. The authors of the following article http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphoton.2010.214.html explain their hack and its supposed to work with most common commercial products 🙂 nice 🙂 Enjoy!