Wikileaks.org has published confidential documents that “detail information on an official program for centralized, real-time, interception of Internet traffic in Switzerland. The interception will start on August 1, 2009.” One of the documents in the file is draft version 0.2 of TR TS (Technical Requirements for Telecommunication Surveillance). It is dated May 2009 and “applies…
Call for NZ website blacklist leak
A euthanasia activist is questioning the Government’s motives behind blocking access to objectionable websites. The new Digital Child Exploitation Filtering System , worth $150,000, will be provided free to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in a couple of months. The Government said 7000 objectionable sites would be blocked to fight child sex abuse. […] The software,…
Sweden: dramatic rise in identity theft
Cases of identity theft in Sweden have shot up by 79 percent over the past three years, a new survey published on Monday shows. In the first six months of 2009 the number of identities frozen as a result of identity theft amounted to 1,439, a 79 percent increase on the corresponding period of 2006,…
Anatomy of the Twitter attack
The Twitter document leak fiasco started with a simple story that personal accounts of Twitter employees were hacked. Twitter CEO Evan Williams commented on that story, saying that Twitter itself was mostly unaffected. No personal accounts were compromised, and “most of the sensitive information was personal rather than company-related,” he said. The individual behind the…