China: Internet Freedom Is Culturally Relative
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
We have had a few weeks to absorb the implications of wide spread Chinese supported attacks against Google and thirty or so other organizations. The US Secretary of State made one of the most affirmative statements on Internet freedom yet articulated by a government. Various policy analysts have chimed in as well. Some thoughts on what they have said…
China is Engaging in Cyber Espionage
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
China is engaging in systematic industrial and military espionage via the Internet. Do not be surprised as more and more organizations announce that they too have been targets. For that matter, do you know if your own organization has been the victim of Chinese cyber spying?
Google Engages China with Cyber Vigilantism
By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest
Google has long maintained that by providing their search, hosted blogging, and email services to the people of China they were supporting access to information and community that would be a long term benefit. Last week we learned that engineers at Google have been engaging in their own form of cyber vigilantism by hacking into a command and control server in Taiwan…
Scam Alert: Rogue Gmail Account Phishing
Anthony M. Freed, Editor and Publisher of Information Security Resources
One of the penalties of having a well published email address is that I receive dozens of phishing emails, scam letters, and other nefarious material en masse daily. Most of these are the typical inheritance, lottery, and sweepstakes scams - but then there are the ones that at first glance may seem legitimate. Take for instance the following email I received over the holiday weekend.
Tools for Detecting Spoofed Email Headers
By Bozidar Spirovski, CISSP, MCSA, MCP
In the age where a huge percentage of all attacks are done through e-mail, very few of us know how to analyze where this e-mail was sent from. This analysis must go beyond the sender e-mail displayed in your e-mail client (which are easily spoofed). Here is a simple tutorial on analyzing Internet headers.
