This is a tiny trackable device (track-stick) that records every single move using GPS… Think about hiding it in someone’s car or sew it into his coat!!
You have to get the device back to get the full information of his movements… however the next generation of this device can be interrogated remotely!!
Day-by-day, as technology evolves, preserving our privacy is becoming a harder mission!!
I believe that interdict such devices wouldn’t be a feasible solution; however fighting technology by technology is!!
How about if we have an effective means to disrupt this tracking device? The device then would be eventually useless!!

Want one?! press here …. use it wisely… and legally!!

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قام موقع ألماني متخصص في ترتيب المواعدة بين الجنسين
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بعمل دراسة حول كلمات المرور الخاصة بمشتركيه.. و ذلك بدراسة كلمات المرور لأكثر من 100 ألف مشترك في الموقع.. الدراسة أظهرت نتائج مهمة فعلا.. فمثلا اتضح أن أكثر من 2.5% من المشتركين تبدأ كلمات المرور التي يستخدمونها بـ 1234 … و أن أكثر من 1.4% من المشتركين اختاروا كلمة المرور 123456.. علما بأن الحد الأدنى لطول كلمة المرور هو 6 أحرف أو أرقام أو رموز

السؤال هنا.. هل قام المشتركون بإختيار كلمات المرور البسيطه هذه لأن الموقع لا يقدم خدمات مهمه كالخدمات البنكية؟ أم أنهم كانوا ليختاروا كلمات المرور بنفس الطريقة حتى في مواقع تقدم خدمات أكثر أهميه؟  أعتقد أن مستخدمي الانترنت ما زالوا يفقتدون إلى الحكمة في إختيار كلمات المرور.. و عليهم أن يضعوا في أذهانهم دوما أن كلمة المرور هي خط الدفاع الأول عن خصوصياتهم على الشبكة… نحتاج المزيد من التوعية

رابط للخبر.. علما بأنه باللغة الألمانية
بإمكانكم ترجمة الخبر من خلال خدمة جوجل للترجمة

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Most of us, I believe, know that the US NSA (National Security Agency) spies on the Internet… But today I want to share with you “how they can do it”!!
Here is a (pdf) file that combines some documents and photos describing how the NSA in association with AT&T spies on the Internet… I won’t talk about it much since the file says it better… however I just want to say that the equipments are really impressive!! ًںک¯
Press here for the file

BTW, do you think that the NSA’s spying stuff is justifiable?! … before you answer try recall how many non-governmental organisations could be spying on you right now (e.g. Google? .. your bank?! .. your mobile operator?! …… the list is endless)!!

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This is an interesting stroy about a spamming-war between a bunch of Russian spammers and a company named Blue Security… There was a couple of battles, before Blue Security gave-up and quit the online business!!
Press here for the complete story

Actually I think quitting is not a positive reaction, but we have to admit that ’til today it doesnt seem that there are applicative and pragmatic solutions to problems like spamming and DDoS…!
Who to blame?!
Well.. I think the IETF which is responsible of the Internet standards, and the Information Security researchers for not giving a sufficient heed for such security problems…

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Here is an interesting interview with Prof. Kenny Paterson, a Professor of Information Security in the ISG…
In the interview Prof. Kenny talks about different issues and mainly about his new research on (new attacks on IPSec implementations)…

Picture of me with Prof. Kenny

I liked this part of the interview:
– What advice would you give to security researchers?
– Persevere… it often takes time, luck and a lot of dead ends to find something interesting. Think about the wider effects of your research, and consider how you can resolve the apparently conflicting aims of getting headlines and of acting responsibly: if you do things in the right way, there is no real conflict.

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I do not know if you heard about the new Google Accelerator before, it is a software that increases the Internet surfing speed as Google claims…
But please look at these terms stated in the (terms and conditions and privacy policy) of the Google Accelerator:

Well… no comments… especially on the second one…!
Disaster!!

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