Roger Halbheer on Security
Swisscom just published an app called CheckAp to help you understand your exposure on your phone. It helps you to look at what the different apps want to access on your phone like GPS, camera, contacts etc. Basically you can get the same kind of information in the app stores. However, depending on the platform…
If you look at the press and the discussions on the web a lot of people complain about the use of their data by service providers. Personally, I am convinced that certain companies stretch their interpretation of privacy further than they should because they can afford it based of the position they have in the…
Trust is a key – even in the underground economy. However, it is hard to establish – even worse in the underground economy. In the real world, we get together and I start to get to know you. I can see you and over time decide whether we can trust each other or not. In…
The whole discussion about NSA and Mr. Snowden sometimes gives me the impression the people think that the US is the only one which spies. Well, let’s think again. You might have seen the reports: Russia ‘spied on G20 leaders with USB sticks’. They actually used an interesting approach by handing out complementary USB sticks…
Eugene Kaspersky made it clear very often: Everything is at risk (and the world is going to end unless we use very secure and dedicated Operation Systems). I would guess the ISS is very well protected and has kind of an air gap – at least when in space as the transmission might not be…
When I look at security organizations, I often seem them doing everything but mainly focusing on governance and compliance. The key question from my point of view is often: Where does security add value? Why should the business (besides compliance to laws, regulations, policies and common sense) even focus on security. If we try to…
On Friday arstechnica published a longer story on Meet “badBIOS,” the mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps. The author talks about a virus/rootkit discovered by Dragos Ruiu, (organizer of CanSecWest and PacSec). The plot looks like a bad Hollywood movie. He describes strange behavior of machines that are completely new, setup from scratch,…
