Last week, Adobe confirmed the vulnerability of most of it’s Acrobat product line, including Reader, Standard and Professional on all operating systems and every nearly every released version from 3-9. The ubiquitous nature of the PDF format, deployed footprint of Acrobat and the nature of the exploit create a catastrophic set of circumstances. Looking carefully may reveal related hidden problems lurking in your infrastructure. These problems are not unique to this specific software, and the lessons learned should carry over to handling of private and mission-critical [...]
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Last week, the British Security Service and Secret Intelligence Services, better known as MI5 and MI6, showed exactly how expensive information security procedures really can be. Details unveiled last week show MI6 scrapped a 2006 undercover drug raid operation in Columbia for fear that a lost USB stick containing covert agents and informants may have fallen into the wrong [...] A year ago, Congress passed the Protect America Act, a broad surveillance effort allowing the National Security Agency to monitor international communications of citizens. It seems the bill wasn’t broad enough, or perhaps the descriptions of what was happening were distorted. The New York Times reports the NSA “overcollected” domestic [...] Some used to be puzzled while discovering the measures deployed to intercept all sorts of communication between individuals on behalf of the Echelon project. In the Spy Factory, a documentary recently broadcast on PBS, James Bamford, a former National Security Agency analyst and author of the Shadow Factory, intends to clarify questionable facts with regards to the last decade’s telecommunications coverage by the [...] Last week, on “Countdown with Keith Olbermann”, former NSA Analyst Robert Tice reported that the NSA spied on journalists as part of their Wiretapping program to root out terrorism. The media has a way of editing/hyping stories, so let’s play Devil’s Advocate, and examine what the interview actually charges for violations of privacy rights. First, Mr. Olbermann points out several inconsistencies within the Bush Administration’s handling of wiretapping. Originally, the wiretaps required court orders. Then interception of international communications are only for people with clear and known links to terrorist networks. Mr. Tice states from his observations that ordinary citizens were [...] |
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