The four people arrested two days ago for allegedly planning to blow up fuel tanks and terminals at New York’s JFK Airport used Google Earth to help plan their attacks, reports the New York Times and others. That leads to the inevitable question: Does Google Earth help terrorists plan their ...

Zulfikar Ramzan is right on in his demolition of Mikko Hypponen’s idea for a ".bank" top-level domain. Writing on Symantec’s Security Response weblog, Zully basically… uhhh… urinates all over Mikko’s plan (although he’s a lot more diplomatic than that). Some choice cuts: Phishers don’t have to use the .bank extension and most ...

The FBI doesn’t use even the most basic network security techniques, such as protecting against insider threats, patching its servers, or using strong encryption techniques, according to a report from the federal Government Accounting Office (GAO). In fact, if the report is to be believed, the FBI’s network appears to ...

I guess it’s OK to call Robert Soloway a spammer — he’s already been convicted in U.S. civil charges of spamming in 2003. This time though, he’s been arrested on criminal charges, brought by the FTC. The list of laws he’s alleged to have broken is extensive: 10 counts of mail fraud 5 ...

If you’re not frightened by the Chinese economic juggernaut, this may give you pause: China has been developing sophisticated tools for international cyberwarfare, starting as far back as 2000.   The U.S. Department of Defense recently reported that the Chinese military "has established information warfare units to develop viruses to attack enemy ...

Another Monday, another IT Blogwatch: in which we return to last Monday’s story about Aunty Beeb’s Wi-Fi "radiation" fears. Not to mention how to barcode yourself… Glenn "WiFi News" Fleishman reminds us what this is all about: The BBC recently ran a terrible half-hour program on the risks from Wi-Fi to ‘the ...

This article in Computerworld discusses some of the changes happening in the encryption environment and also addresses some possible options, such as selective encryption, or newer processes that perform encryption "on the fly", but again I’m not convinced that it isn’t another case of someone trying to throw a "solution" ...

Won’t somebody think of the children? It’s Monday’s IT Blogwatch: in which Aunty Beeb scares us all over Wi-Fi "radiation". Not to mention a Disney parody explanation of copyright law and fair use… BBC TV’s Panorama series speaks of, "a Wi-Fi revolution…": …with offices, homes and classrooms going wireless - but there ...