Security related technology
A programmer writing trojans for the Swiss government has published his code to open source.
Ruben Unteregger has worked for a long time as a software-engineer for the Swiss company ERA IT Solutions. His job there was to code malware that would invade PCs of private users, and allow the wiretapping of VoIP calls [...]
A presentation at Black Hat on hacking into ATM’s was halted. Reassuring.
Barnaby Jack, a security researcher at the computer networking giant Juniper, had planned to hack into an automatic teller machine (ATM) live onstage at the Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas later this month. But his presentation, designed to demonstrate the [...]
Apparently the Chinese have decided they can do better on computer security (via Schneier). They are using linux. You can download your own copy if you don’t mind being seen as a cyberwar threat.
China has developed more secure operating software for its tens of millions of computers and is already installing it on [...]