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BoteAR: a ?social botnet?? What are we talking about?

In information security, talk about botnets equals talk about malicious actions that materialize through criminal action. In essence, we think there is always a hostile attitude on the part of those who administer them. Please correct me colleagues, refute this if I’m wrong, but I think conceptually you agree with me.

BoteAR (developed in Argentina) …

Why Pakistan’s move against online crypto is a dangerous idea

Pakistan newspaper The Express Tribune reports from Karachi that the country’s telecommunications regulator is pressing ISPs to comply with recent regulations which restrict the use of end-to-end encryption.

Any technology which conceals communications and prohibits monitoring, it seems, is off the menu.

The Tribune quotes a letter sent to it by an ISP which …

Sony may offer reward for PSN hackers’ heads

With the PlayStation Network still crippled from a round of cyber attacks, the company is reportedly considering offering a reward to anyone who offers up information that helps reveal identities of the hackers who launched the attacks, reports All Things Digital. Sony has not yet reached a decision to offer a reward, but shows how …

Content-Aware IAM — More than a Catchy Slogan

For the last six months, we have been discussing our vision of "content-aware IAM" as the next evolutionary stage in identity and access management.  This vision has been driven in large part from our realization that focusing purely on identities and access is no longer sufficient for 21st century IAM.  Simply put, identities interact with …