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Friday, November 16, 2012


New report warns of SCADA CYBERGEDDON* - I4U News
The industrial control system fright machine is getting another kick along today, via a survey by Russian vendor Positive Technologies. The company’s study makes some startling claims: 40 percent of SCADA systems “available from the Internet” can be easily hacked, half of the vulnerabilities the company found allow the execution of arbitrary code on the target system, one-third of vulnerabilities arise from poor configuration such as using default passwords, and one-quarter are related to users not installing security updates...

US Crackdown on Internet Censorship Comes at Critical Time
Longtime opponents to Internet censorship were glad to see the Obama Administration enforce new human rights rules involving Iran last week. The State Department announced sanctions against four individuals and five entities, including Iran's ...

China top censor's latest leadership role raises fears
Even innocuous comments about the gathering and top leaders were frequently deleted by online censors, and Internet access in major cities was reported to be noticeably slower, apparently reflecting stepped-up online oversight. Google—which removed ...

Netizen Report: Chinese Leadership & Censorship Edition
... Interpol's “Worst of”-list. A team under the European Commission has been working on the project “European Capability for Situational Awareness” which will monitor and map out global online censorship, surveillance and other issues related to ...

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