Oracle still hasn’t succeeded in dragging SAP’s ex-chief executive into court to testify on what he knew about the subsidiary TomorrowNow’s “industrial espionage.”
On Monday, what Oracle got instead was an apology from the former CEO’s replacement: co-CEO Bill McDermott.
It was another tech-sector captain deflated in the circus of Oracle’s prosecution of its number-one business applications rival over money. (more)
Business espionage is costly. It is costly if you don’t catch it. It is costly if you do catch it and ride the legal hamster wheel. While an apology is gentlemanly, it doesn’t fill the loss.
Tip: Don’t let it happen in the first place. Get your ounce of prevention, here.
from a recent press release…
…is the world’s leading provider of high attenuating radio frequency and infrared optically clear substrates for privacy and electronic eavesdropping protection i.e. RF flood attacks, “bugs”, LASER attacks,
thermal imaging, also known as Technical Surveillance Counter-Measures (TSCM). (
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Dudes. Thermal imaging?!?!
1. Thermal imaging is not an electronic eavesdropping technique.
2. Thermal imaging is not even a visual privacy invading technique.
via windowsitpro.com
Q. I’m a boss who tricked my workers into adding me as Xbox Live friends. How can I spy on them when they’re “working” from home to make sure they’re not playing Xbox?
A. One of the great features of the Xbox and its online service is the integration with the xbox.com website. It lets you easily see all your Xbox friends. It can be abused by mean bosses to quickly, in table form, see the last time the friends were on XBOX and what they were doing.
Just perform the following:
Go to www.xbox.com and select “Sign In” in the top right of the xbox.com site.
• Sign in with the Live ID associated with your XBox Live ID.
• Click on your own profile.
• Select View All Friends under Friends.
You can see who’s online, who’s offline, when they were last online, and what everyone is or was doing. (more)
The Hamas government in the Gaza Strip is warning local politicians, government officials and faction leaders against buying cars imported from Israel for fear they may contain eavesdropping equipment or even remote-activated bombs planted by Israeli security agencies. (more)
Test your car…
If you own a late model General Motors car with OnStar, try this test. Tune your radio to 770 AM, turn up the volume and tap on the OnStar microphone near the rear view mirror. Do you hear yourself coming through the radio? No? Maybe they only bugged my car. ~Kevin
via Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
The only thing “new” about Firesheep is that how it easy makes it to do. I’m unimpressed. Anyone who was serious about grabbing your personal information has already been doing it for years. Trust me, if someone really wanted your data and you’ve been using open Wi-Fi networks, they already grabbed it.
No, the real worry isn’t about some jerk grabbing your Twitter password in a coffee house.
The real worry has always been that your office Wi-Fi is easy to compromise and then someone can use a
packet-sniffer to get something that really matters like your your Accounts Payable password. (
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Need a Wi-Fi Security Audit and Compliance Inspection? (you do) Please call me. (more)
11/4/10 – UPDATE: IBM researchers are proposing an approach to WiFi security they call Secure Open Wireless in light of the release of the Firesheep tool. (more)
11/5/10 – UPDATE: 10 Ways to Protect Yourself from Firesheep Attacks (more)
