Reuters are reporting that traffic for some “highly sensitive” US websites was briefly redirected through China.  In a report by the BBC, the incident, which happened for 18 minutes last April saw China Telecom send out incorrect routing formation. There’s no confirmation on whether this was intentional or not, but it comes at a time [...]

Categories: Hacking, Security

A new worm that has been named Stuxnet has been detected that appears to have been written specifically to attack infrastructure in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In the first example of malware of this type the worm was programmed to attack power stations, water plants and industrial units. A report by the BBC has said [...]

Categories: Security

Research in Motion’s Blackberry devices have been causing all sorts of controversy in the middle-east in recent months with countries such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE threatening to block all data delivery to the devices. The reason for this is that the data is filtered therough RIM’s servers, which are outside of those countries [...]

Categories: Mobiles

After previous problems in the country, the United Arab Emirates is now set to at least temorarily block RIM’s Blackberry phones in the country, saying they pose a “national security risk”. The rules regards internet usage and decency in the country are fairly strict and all ISPs are required to have filtering equipment to block [...]

Categories: Mobiles

Yesterday I wrote about how 70,000 users blogs on the WordPress owned service, Blogetry, were mysteriously shut down by a “law enforcement agency”. Now more details have emerged and the BBC have reported that it was indeed the FBI who ordered the services’ closure because of a “link to terrorist material” and an al-Qaeda hit [...]

Categories: Misc

Next time you visit an airport, there’s a chance of you being sniffed by, not dogs, but bees. Yes, they are now down to training bees to sniff and apparently it is proving to be extremely successful. While the cyborg beetles in my last post are still nowhere near practical implementation, these sniffer bees are [...]

Categories: Science, Security

to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. This quote by one of the founding fathers of the United States dates back more than 200 years ago but it has a huge relevance to the current situation in our world. The so called democratic countries of the West are reducing the rights [...]

Categories: Security, The Web