scary at the moment, they tried to hack Amazon which ofcourse you can imagine they details on credit cards and everyone.

not sure the Gov should handle security, afterall it has been know for them to leave their laptops on the buses 

There has indeed been a recent spate of well publicised successful attacks, but in reality this is like almost all other forms of crime, where the people who want to attack struggle to stay slightly ahead of those who need to defend. There are all sorts of sophisticated things that an aware ASP, ISP or website operator can and should do, but the criminal fraternity remains deeply ingenious in thinking of new ways to circumvent whatever is in place........

We keep hearing how the mobile device, which once upon a time was just a phone will become every more fundamental, as ot becomes our wallet, our authentication device, our diary, our address book etc............ so people are going to have to learn not ot lose them! 

There is a lot of talk at the moment about a so-called 'internet passport'...

Personally, I think im against this idea at the moment, The internet should always be about freedom of speech etc, That cant happen is identities can be traced more easily.

My personal thoughts on it is that while lulzsec/anonymous etc are going around hacking databases with SQL injections etc it is wrong, however it should be up to the companies hosting the data to secure your information, surely if the companies were up to date with the penetration testing this would happen less and less? Obviously 0 day vulnerabilities would be hard to catch still.

Sony for example did terribly, yes the system should not of been hacked. However, once the intruders got in, the databases were not encrypted/hashed at all... I don't know why people allow companies to operate in this way, encrypting/hashing a password table is basic stuff to be honest...

The other issue seems to be 'users'

The amount of times read now that one DB breach has given the attackers access into paypal/facebook/banking/email etc is crazy, people don't seem to realise that having 1 password for the whole 'internet' is such a bad idea. Providers can only do so much I guess...

card details were encrypted I believe (in the DB), passwords were not... (from what ive seen on the interwebs)

Hackers work with security companies these days to make sure those threats are addressed.  Mostly it's due to people not having a clue of how to protect their own PC.  You get a stupid email from an unknown sender and click on the link?  What's wrong with people?  I am running virus protection including spam filters etc.  It picks up a lot.  The rest is up to you.  Don't click on stuff unless you are sure it's safe.  And don't ever respond to any mail telling you've won something.  I still think the internet is one of our greatest achievements.  Imagine,  millions of PCs connected worldwide.  It's awesome. If you have a clue about networking you know how cool it is.  What I did notice is that Internet security companies spread fear to sell their products.

like all utopian socities the internet is destined to slowly migrate from the vision imagined for it by early adherents into and exact reflection of the world as a whole.

Most new socities and revolutions in human history start with ideals and charismatic pioneers who shape them, but when the mass get hold of something they are always left like King canute trying to hold back the invevitable tide that dilutes things into blandness.

In the sixties Peace, Free-Love and Harmony soon mutated in to Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll once the crimminals s started to get active within the scene.
It was the same with the rave 'E'ra, then soon you got the crimminals and big companies moving in.

Why should we kid oursleves that the internet will be any different?

Think about how 'underground' it now is when you now have revolutions and uprisings virtually sponsored and narrated by Facebook & Twitter (the new pepsi & coke US mega brands lapped up by the current generation of trainee global consumers).

Once all you needed to have a demo was megaphone but now you need an i-phone plus at least three massive amercian companies products to help you.......

"This Anarchy has been brought to by......."   

I bet you did alot of drugs in the 60's 

Quote from: Ninjauk on June 21, 2011, 10:56:28 PM

Sound advice, unknown link = no clicky. 

I like to live on the edge, if I see a link I'll click the sh*t out of it and just hope I dont get a virus. Everytime I look myself in the computer screen reflection and ask "do you feel lucky punk?"

And you wern't even around in the 60's!