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Social Media as a Cyber Warfare Gamechanger
September of 2012 will live on in infamy for a large number of people. It was the month of the massive riots by Islamic extremists who, incited by the ever present radical imams, stormed several US...
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The Dutch, the Yanks, the Cloud and YOU
Recently a research project by the Amsterdam University [PDF Alert] revealed that US law allows for the US government to access information stored in the Cloud, by (ab)using the PATRIOT act. Multiple...
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The Value of Secure Coding Procedures
I recently had a very interesting conversation with Dave Hyman of Checkmarx, who asked me how I saw the future of cyber security (or information security, take your pick). Now, as I’m sure you´ll agree...
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Trojans for the Bundestag – German PD acquired Finfisher
In December of last year, the German public prosecutors’ office had declared that there was no legal basis for the use of the so-called “Bundestrojaner” spyware, which was used to spy on German...
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On Dutch Banking Woes and DDoS Attacks
If you don’t live in the Netherlands or don’t happen to have a Dutch bank account, you can certainly be forgiven for not having caught wind of the major banking woes that have been plaguing the Dutch....
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PRISM: Tip of the Cyber Intel Iceberg
When Edward Snowden published information on PRISM – a rather drastic intelligence gathering program in which several (assume All) government agencies such as the FBI and the NSA draw intelligence from...
View ArticleArgent Consulting buys B-Able Argent Consulting
PRESS STATEMENT Monday, 26th May 2014. The Netherlands: Due to insurmountable differences among management, the joint effort between Argent Consulting and B-Able, dubbed “B-Able Argent Consulting” has...
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Information Security, Post-Snowden
As published on Tripwire’s State of Security: The revelations regarding the extensive digital intelligence gathering programs of the American National Security Agency by Edward Snowden won’t have...
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GCCS2015 Part II: Government Influence is the Key Issue
(As published on Norse: Feb 5th, 2015) As we noted in Part I: GCCS2015: Battlefield for the Internets’ Multi-stakeholder Coup, the next iteration of the Global Conference on CyberSpace (GCCS2015) will...
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Enterprise Security vs. Nation State Threat Actors
The recently published Snowden/NSA/GCHQ slides regarding the Gemalto hack have caused quite a stir amongst security practitioners, board members and politicians alike. But the uproar is minor when...
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The Right to Strike Back
As published on Norse on June 26, 2015. Last week, at the HiP Conference in Paris, there was a debate on whether or not it should be allowed to strike back when you are being hacked. Currently,...
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Missing in Action: Cyber Dictionary?
As published on Norse on September 22nd, 2015. I recently stumbled over an old issue that has shown no signs of being resolved: the lack of a normalized lexicon on Cyber Security. We can’t seem to...
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Cyber Cease-Fire: US v. China
As published on Norse on October 6th, 2015 Interesting times indeed, now that the outcome of Chinese president Xi Jinping’s two-day visit to the White House last week has been made public. According...
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