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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The once-warm relations between the U.S. and Russia have turned decidedly cool — so much that a new Cold War may be on the way. This time around, though, the war may be fought with bytes rather than bullets.
In …

It just became much, much easier for the FBI to tap your Internet connection or listen in on your VoIP call. This past Monday was the deadline for all ISPs, VoIP providers, and some universities to comply with the Communications …

As happens now and then, the following ran in Thursday’s Security newsletter.
So help me, I will send a shiny quarter to anyone who can promise me that for a week… heck, for a BUSINESS week… they will personally see to …

If Congress gets its way, the NSA’s massive, unauthorized wiretapping and Web-tapping program will be banned. The House of Representatives just passed a law saying that the NSA cannot perform any electronic surveillance except under an existing law — a …