Hightech tracking system being built in Shenzen, China

13Aug07

 
The New York Times reports about a security/tracking system which is being built in Shenzen, China. Some 20′000+  surveilance cameras are being installed and will be guided by US-financed software to keep track of the 12.4 million population. To make this work the Chinese came up with an idea George Orwell would have loved: Every citizen [...]

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“Blue Pill” Rootkit freely available

02Aug07

Security researcher and rootkit specialist Joanna Rutkowska has published the source-code of a completely rewritten “Blue Pill” virtualization rootkit.
The rootkit takes advantage of so called hardware virtualized machines (HMVs) to shift Windows into a virtual machine without the OS’s permission or recognition of the fact. Currentl only AMD’s VT-x/Pacifica technology is supported to pull Windows [...]

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RFID Passport Hacked to Crash Readers

01Aug07

German security researcher Lukas Grunwald claims to have successfully hacked the RFID chip in the new e-passports used by the United States. The former consultant on e-passports for the German parliament says he was able to crash two passport readers from different vendors by first cloning the embeded RFID chip (which is scary enough) and [...]

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Corporate IT Security

27Mar07

I usually don’t post a lot about my private life or my job but why not rant about some things.
As an employee of a large Swiss company I got an email from the IT department concerning IT security awareness. Apparently they were running an program to educate people about the security risks at work. (Not [...]

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