Archive for August, 2011

Preventing Voicemail Hacking

The following article on preventing voicemail hacking was originally published on the BCS website: “Voicemail hacking is not new. The two main methods are guessing PINs or using spoofing to bypass caller ID-based access control. For convenient remote access to voicemail, e.g. where caller ID is not available or when the user is calling from [...]

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCD COE) – 3rd International Conference on Cyber Conflict (ICCC)

The following conference report was originally published in the BCS Information Security Now Magazine, Summer 2011 issue (Volume 5, Issue 4), which was on the topic of Cyber Warfare: “ISSG Chairman Gareth Niblett reports from the 3rd International Conference on Cyber Conflict (ICCC), organised by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCD COE) [...]

Monday, August 1st, 2011

ISNow – Cyber Warfare

The following introduction was originally published in the BCS Information Security Now Magazine, Summer 2011 issue (Volume 5, Issue 4), which was on the topic of Cyber Warfare: “One of the significant problems with cyber war, versus traditional kinetic warfare, is the lack of agreed definitions and rules. Proposals are beginning to emerge, and the [...]

Monday, August 1st, 2011