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Police website got hacked, so what?
This came in my mailbox today, hiding itself as a press release: 9th November 2009 – The BBC reported today that the Durham police website had been hacked by a computer hacker protesting against the terror deaths in Pakistan, forcing the website to be closed. According to Imperva, the data security specialist, who is constantly monitoring hacker sites and activities, the police websit

How-to: Cloning a (Laptop) Hard Drive using DD over the network
As hard drives are growing, dying or trying to evade us, the need for cloning disks are growing fast. There are many uses for cloning disks, including: forensics work - you need an exact copy of the drive in order to reconstruct the data backup - you need an exact copy of the drive in order to restore it when (not if) the drive dies, or the data is lost outgrowning the disk - the oh-so-big disk you got some years ago is stuffed and ready to explode stealing the content - you may want to copy the contents from someone else without their consent (this is illeg

Security 2009 report
As promised, here is a report from the Security 2009 Conference that took place in Oslo in October. The conference had focus on security issues related to the current economic situation, and how to deal with these issues. IMHO, the conference fell a bit too heavy on product vendors jerking off from the stage, although most of them did quite well at controlling their need to mission their own solutions to be the right one for all. As we all know, there is no "one-size-fits-all" when it comes to security. It all depends on the risk profile of the organization, and their security strategy to uphold their profile. I'll hold my horses for now, this post is a report, not a rant...

Transperancy International says the finance crisis was due to coruption
Transperancy International, the international watchdog against corruption, claims the global ressession came about due to corruption, according to this article. “Fostering a culture of corporate integrity is essential to protect investment, increase commercial success and ensure the stability sought by poor and rich countries alike, particularly as we climb out of an historical crisis,” saidTransparency International Chair Huguette Labelle.   Why am I not surprised? We need to find efficient ways of controling and fightin

Security 2009 conference
I am spending the day chairing the Security 2009 event in Oslo, Norway. I update my twitter account during the day: http://twitter.com/kairoer I will do interviews etc over the next month or so - have to heal my hand first :)