Barcode Nation

Keeping two eyes on the database state

RSS

Can the database state be hacked?

A database developer sacked for lying on his CV hacked into systems to spy on his former colleagues and delete emails.
Julius Oladiran, 46, was dismissed from after his employers discovered his boasts of a master’s degree, and top Government jobs were all lies.
Desperate to know what people were saying about him, the conman installed spyware on [...]

Home Office denies PC snoop plan

Reports that police have been granted new powers to snoop on your PC without a warrant have been denied by the Home Office.
 
According to the Sunday Times report, the Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan via Europe to allow police across Britain to conduct “remote searching”. It allows police or MI5 officers to [...]

Weakness in digital certificates exposed

Researchers have uncovered a weakness in the internet’s digital certificate system that allows them to forge counterfeit credentials needed to impersonate virtually any website that relies on the widely used security measure.
More than 200 Playstation 3’s were used in this proof-of-concept attack that throws the issue of internet security wide open.