http://www.digitalassassinationbook.comDigital Assassination Book RSS feeden-usCopyright (C) 2013 digitalassassinationbook.comICS-Cert, the U.S. government computer monitoring agency, warns of rising hack attacks from the Middle East (quick, name a country that begins with a "I" and ends with an "n") against corporate targets. Unlike China's concerted and sanctioned cyber-attacks - which aim to create backdoors into systems and steal information - these hackers are seeking to gain control over industrial (and in at least one case, chemical) facilities to do real damage. Just more evidence that the current SCADA system of using the Internet for industrial control is fatally flawed.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/Ybcduj3YI9s/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=209Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=209It's been a banner year for digital impersonation. First, hackers insert a phony story about explosions on the AP Twitter Feed. Then they tricked the Drudge Report into running a phony news story about Mayor Bloomberg going berserk after being refused a second slice of pizza. But now - Syrian revolutionaries hacking The Onion Twitter Feed, with lines about chemical weapons actually being jihadist's body odor - that's satire so recursive, it's just another day's news. It's been a banner year for digital impersonation. First, hackers insert a phony story about explosions on the AP Twitter Feed. Then they tricked the Drudge Report into running a phony news story about Mayor Bloomberg going berserk after being refused a second slice of pizza. But now - Syrian revolutionaries hacking The Onion Twitter Feed, with lines about chemical weapons actually being jihadist's body odor - that's satire so recursive, it's just another day's news.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/oZ1Td4phxuE/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=208Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=208The Untold Cost of Cybersecurity by Valentina Pasquali "We see the continuation of a trend over the next couple of years we call 'democratization of digital skills,' with hacking becoming available to average people through downloadable, inexpensive software," says Richard Torrenzano, chairman and chief executive of the reputation management firm Torrenzano Group. "Everyone will have 15 minutes of shame in the future."http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/7iRXOi0do6E/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=207Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=207Instead of reporting it, The Associate Press made the news today. Their hacked twitter account broke the 'news' that White House had been bombed and President Obama was injured. The Dow and S and P quickly dropped 1% percent before bouncing back. The Associated Press isn't alone though...they join the likes The New York Times and Wall Street Journal who have had run-ins with hackers lately.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/hKO2CBfbTFc/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=206Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=206The key to cracking the Boston Marathon bombing turned out to be a department store security camera, not the crowd-sourcing investigative skills of social media. This time, social media did not distinguish itself. The LA Times reports: Legions of Web sleuths cast suspicion on at least four innocent people, spread innumerable bad tips and heightened the sense of panic and paranoia. "This is one of the most alarming social media events of our time," said Siva Vaidhyanathan, a media studies professor at the University of Virginia. "We're really good at uploading images and unleashing amateurs, but we're not good with the social norms that would protect the innocent." Even as first responders were struggling to tend to the needs of the three killed and more than 170 injured in the Boston Marathon blasts, Web forums were cranking out rumors that there had been four bombs instead of two, that an area library had been targeted and that the death count was well over a dozen.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/BKFhgBcdgEQ/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=205Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=205Alexandra Petri of The Washington Post has put together a great summary of CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act): citing the yays and the nays. Cutting to the point she writes... At what point do you say, "Well, this bill is good enough; something is better than nothing; we can fix it in post-production; tally ho and so forth?" That is the question. .http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/xuWXBdbtr8M/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=204Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=204http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/yJ9phxtVHOQ/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=203Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=203Another tradegy... One line says it all. "Rehtaeh's case is yet another sad reminder of the power of social media to stretch a moment of sexual violence into a years-long ordeal that destroys a teenager's life." Read full story from Mashable..http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/4qLQh02mrvE/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=202Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=202In this episode of CW Radio, Richard Torrenzano, CEO of The Torrenzano Group and co-author of Digital Assassination: Protecting your Reputation, Brand or Business Against Online Attacks, talks with Executive Editor Natasha Nicholson about online reputation attacks, or what he refers to as "digital assassination." Torrenzano discusses how technology has changed the way companies' reputations are threatened, and why threats today need to be managed differently than in the past. Learn more about digital assassination at the IABC World Conference in June, where Torrenzano will lead a Socratic dialogue on the subject. Click here to listen to the podcast. In this episode of CW Radio, Richard Torrenzano, CEO of The Torrenzano Group and co-author of Digital Assassination: Protecting your Reputation, Brand or Business Against Online Attacks, talks with Executive Editor Natasha Nicholson about online reputation attacks, or what he refers to as "digital assassination." Torrenzano discusses how technology has changed the way companies' reputations are threatened, and why threats today need to be managed differently than in the past. Learn more about digital assassination at the IABC World Conference in June, where Torrenzano will lead a Socratic dialogue on the subject.Click here to listen to the podcast. .http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/C9Bhg8l6jPY/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=201Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=201William F. Buckley famously once said he would rather turn over the government of the United States to the first 400 people in the Boston phone book than to the faculty of Harvard University. What about the first 400 URLs? The scouring of faculty emails by Harvard administrators has the profs in arms, waving rhetorical pitchforks over the violation of their privacy. The administration did so to find a leak over confidential information about a student cheating scandal. (The culprit turned out to be a resident dean, who did not leak it intentionally, but inadvertently forwarded confidential Harvard memos to the media.) The takeaway? Hey, Harvard faculty - if you do not own the computer you are using, then you do not own the information on it. That is also, by the way, true of the computer we all use at work. Galling? Yes. But true.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/eWVUlgFJElE/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=199Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=199National Security Advisor Tom Donilon gave a speech that amounted to a direct demand that China crack down on its policy of cyber-piracy, in which state-sponsored entities steal the secrets of U.S. businesses and commercialize them. The only question is . . . what next? The problem with ultimatums is that they have to backed by consequences. Does anyone believe this administration will do anything? Does anyone have a good idea what they could do?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/-Euifu3Q8YE/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=198Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=198In Digital Assassination we chronicle the exploits of Luis Mijangos, who went to prison for using Remote Administration Tools (RAT) to steal stored erotic images from hundreds of women. As an adept RAT, Mijangos used their webcams to spy on them - sometimes blackmailing them with secrets learned on their computers to persuade them to perform sexual acts for him. RATs were once exotic. Now they are common. In this Ars Technica piece, Nate Anderson shows how easy and pervasively available this technology is. Even more disturbing, a RAT culture has emerged in which tools are shared and victims - called "slaves" - are traded or rented out.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/8WpRupmpK_U/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=197Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=197It's called "social media meltdown." Twitter hackers have replaced Burger King logos with that of McDonalds, and Jeep (Chrysler) with that of Cadillac (GM), ruining brand image and calling into question the viability of Twitter as a platform for advertising. So far, the attacks seem to be nihilist pranks. The real danger is that various hacktivists and digital assassins for hire will do real and lasting damage to brand value.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/SS6j8HYSdlU/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=196Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=196In Digital Assassination (p. 111), we reported how the People's Liberation Army of China supports a thriving network of hackers who regularly raid the systems of U.S. businesses and government institutions. Now we have an address for one of the PLA's official units - not just a digital address, but a physical one. The willingness of official sources to disseminate Mandiant's detective work in identifying the large, sophisticated hackers in Unit 61398 of the People's Liberation Army of China - right down to an actual office tower in Shanghai - is a rightful show of anger over years of extreme provocation. But naming names is just a start. Unit 61398 has not only stolen proprietary information (including Coca-Cola's negotiating strategy in a failed attempt to buy China's Huiyan Juice Group), it's also showing a troubling propensity for seeking the digital keys to critical infrastructure - chemical plants, pipelines, and the electrical grid. "Right now there is no incentive for the Chinese to stop doing this," Rep. Mike Rogers, (R-AK), Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee told The New York Times. "If we don't create a high price, it's only going to keep accelerating." In the meantime, spearphishing has become so sophisticated that it is all but impossible to counter. The Times reports that a part-time employee received an email seemingly from his boss in perfect English, "discussing security weaknesses in critical infrastructure systems, and asked the employee to click a link to a document for more information." Which was, of course, the attack itself. In Digital Assassination (p. 111), we reported how the People's Liberation Army of China supports a thriving network of hackers who regularly raid the systems of U.S. businesses and government institutions. Now we have an address for one of the PLA's official units - not just a digital address, but a physical one. The willingness of official sources to disseminate Mandiant's detective work in identifying the large, sophisticated hackers in Unit 61398 of the People's Liberation Army of China - right down to an actual office tower in Shanghai - is a rightful show of anger over years of extreme provocation. But naming names is just a start. Unit 61398 has not only stolen proprietary information (including Coca-Cola's negotiating strategy in a failed attempt to buy China's Huiyan Juice Group), it's also showing a troubling propensity for seeking the digital keys to critical infrastructure - chemical plants, pipelines, and the electrical grid. "Right now there is no incentive for the Chinese to stop doing this," Rep. Mike Rogers, (R-AK), Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee told The New York Times. "If we don't create a high price, it's only going to keep accelerating." In the meantime, spearphishing has become so sophisticated that it is all but impossible to counter. The Times reports that a part-time employee received an email seemingly from his boss in perfect English, "discussing security weaknesses in critical infrastructure systems, and asked the employee to click a link to a document for more information." Which was, of course, the attack itself.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/HMFCqSmok5A/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=195Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=195First Panetta, now Obama... With the President's executive order announced during his Address, cyber threats are will recieve the Congressional attention they deserve. An excerpt from last night's State of the Union: "America must also face the rapidly growing threat from cyber attacks. "Now, we know hackers steal people's identities and infiltrate private e-mails. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets. Now our enemies are also seeking the ability to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems. We cannot look back years from now and wonder why we did nothing in the face of real threats to our security and our economy. "That's why, earlier today, I signed a new executive order that will strengthen our cyber defenses by increasing information-sharing and developing standards to protect our national security, our jobs, and our privacy. "But now -- now Congress must act, as well, by passing legislation to give our government a greater capacity to secure our networks and deter attacks. This is something we should be able to get done on a bipartisan basis."http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/xsd55YAVfXw/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=194Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=194The big news of the week was the Obama Administration's finding that it is legal to use drones to kill Americans who go abroad and enlist in the war on terror. Less noticed, but perhaps much more important, is the Administration's finding that the President has the power to launch a preemptive cyber attack. This was a digital shot across the bow against China, which most recently irritated the United States by worming into the computers of The New York Times and other major publications to seek out Chinese sources who might have contributed to the reporting of the cozy, sweetheart deals available to relatives of China's leadership. Two observations: Secretive China can always deny it is behind an attack. A preemptive (or retaliatory) cyber attack by the United States against China would ultimately have to be owned by the President (even if it were designated "covert"). This would make such an attack legally and diplomatically dicey. The penetration of The Times was likely the result of a spear-phishing attack in which employees of the paper were enticed by malicious links. The Times quotes Michael Higgins, its chief security officer: "Attackers no longer go after our firewall. They go after individuals." We need to give the President the same "plausible deniability" that China's leaders have. And we need to quit clicking on enticing links on our office computers.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/QCBeqhTWQAM/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=191Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=191Yesterday, we announced the Top 10 Digital Assassinations of 2012. Today, we've taken at hard look at those attacks and more to put together our prophecies for 2013 Here's our Top Three Digital Assassination Trends to watch out for in 2013. 1. Democratization of Digital Skills 2.0 In 2011, hacking became available to average people through downloadable, inexpensive software programs. Last year was a continuation of the trend as ordinary people are learning devious Internet moves. As the Petraeus-Broadwell scandal shows, many have acquired the skill once used by terrorists to communicate through "drafts" folder in electronic drop-boxes. Unfortunately for them, the FBI and other snoops are way ahead of that game. 2. Shouting Fire in the Middle of a Crowded Crisis The media, driven by breakneck competitive pressure, is now in danger of becoming a digital flash mob broadcasting misinformation about serious and fast-breaking events. Witness the confusion of the shooter in Newtown, Connecticut, with his brother. The opportunity exists for a criminal or ideologically driven digital assassin to dip into the stream to misdirect the media, and thereby mislead law enforcement and even national political leaders, so they make instant, wrong decisions in the middle of a serious crisis. 3. Digital "China Syndrome" Criminally and ideologically motivated groups are working now to gain access to industrial controls in order to move from burglary and digital character assassination into physical assassinations. 2013 will be the year attacks on the country's infrastructure, putting many lives and the U.S. economy at risk. Key target: The grid. Think of Sandy, and the complete breakdown of distribution of electricity, supplies, fuel, and food.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/mjFlnrNyZCQ/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=189Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=189And the Award Goes to... The Top Ten Digital Assassinations of 2012 The Top Ten Digital Assassinations of 2012 highlighted below are notable for underscoring relevant trends. "Some are dangerous and disturbing. Others amusing. A few are both", stated Richard Torrenzano. 10. A New Kind of "Kill Switch" Perhaps the greatest danger is the threat digital assassination will blur into actual physical assassination of large numbers of people by making infrastructure go haywire. In the aftermath of the malware attack that utterly disrupted Saudi Aramco in August, the U.S. Department of Homeland Defense warned that hacktivists and other groups are growing in their interest and skill in gaining control of industrial control systems. 9. Social Media Sickness In the aftermath of this year's saddest story from Newtown, Connecticut, wretched souls polluted the news stream with bogus social media posts rife with disturbing and misleading information purportedly from the police, and the shooter himself. [Source: CBS News, 12/16/12] 8. Facebook Disclosure In addition to all the starlets who are publicly humiliated because they somehow have not yet internalized the news that nude photos are like dandelions - they want to go everywhere - add Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, who also might have disclosed too much. In fact, he might have made the day of some naked short traders. Hastings told his 200,000 Facebook fans that Netflix viewing "exceeded 1 billion hours" of videos in June. The shares jumped 6.2 percent that day. We can argue back and forth whether or not the information was "material." The problem is that you have to be a "friend" to be in the know. Perhaps the deeper issue: When will the SEC catch up to reality and adjust its regulations to explicitly include social media? 7. 47 Percent Less Likely to Win Robin Williams observes that with so many cameras and cellphones floating around, "It's not Big Brother any more. It's Little Snitch." The list of people burned this year by Little Snitch would be a redundant replay of the year's entertainment news. The biggest victim of all was Mitt Romney, who, after being portrayed as rich and callous by President Barack Obama, did all he could to say, "I resemble that remark," by telling an audience of rich donors that 47 percent of the American people are freeloaders. Not realizing that no remarks are private in the presence of Little Snitch, Romney's snark was caught by a cellphone and in the end he received - you got it - 47 percent of the vote. 6. Mindless Spiders Sometimes, a digital assassination is not the result of a cunning adversary, but the result of a horribly insensitive juxtaposition from ad-spamming automatons. Ying Ma's memoir, Chinese Girl in the Ghetto, describes her family's plight - their escape from Mao's China, their efforts to make it in Oakland terrorized by gangs. What ads do Google's spiders link to her book on Amazon? Girls in China - 100s of Girls in China Download Asian Teen Images for Free She writes in The Weekly Standard: When I first saw these, I winced. Then I realized that the words "Chinese Girl" must have caused Amazon's ad technology to identify my book as a product that might appeal to people who also had a crass interest in Asian women. She called for a "smarter, more discerning Internet." 5. Tibetan Twitter Spam Pollution The Twitter feeds of international activists concerned with China's maltreatment of Tibet were temporarily disrupted by bots that polluted their feeds with spam - nonsense posts that repeated over and over. Russian democracy activists have suffered similar attacks - a childish form of interruption, like standing in the middle of a political debate and loudly shouting, "nah-nah-na-na-nah." 4. Gingrich Goes Greek A pro-Democratic SuperPac "Google-bombed" Newt Gingrich (substituting his search results with satirical results). During the primary, searchers who clicked on NewtGingrich.com were sent to a Tiffany's ad and travel agencies specializing in Greek Cruises. Incredibly, other major candidates also overlooked locking up their digital real estate. One would have thought - given the longtime prominence of another Google bomb that linked another presidential candidate, Rick Santorum, to a scatological reference since 2003 - that locking up one's URLs in all reasonable permutations to prevent Digital Assassination would, by now, be Campaign 101. [Source: Forbes, 7/18/12] 3. Oily Impersonators The "Yes Men" activist trope staged a fake Shell Oil press conference in which a model rig went haywire and sprayed oil on a crowd of VIPs. While Shell was quick to deny ownership of the mishap - the prank acquired YouTube viral fame. Activists followed up with a look-alike digital campaign that had the look and feel of a Shell-branded "Arctic Ready" site, but with jarring propaganda ("Narwhals are the unicorns of the ocean. We provide the rainbows via oil slicks.") 2. Burned Bagged When WikiLeaks (which never seems to have the guts to go after a really dangerous target, like the Putin regime in Russia or the PLC) broke into Stratfor's system, it found a wittily, but cynically, written "Glossary of Useful, Baffling and Strange Intelligence Firms" by the private, Austin-based intelligence firm. Stratfor takes on the CIA: "Imagine the Post Office with a foreign policy." On the "craft" of intelligence, the Glossary says: "A man with good craft can go into a bar, meet a beautiful woman assigned to seduce him, get seduced and wake up in the morning with the woman working for him. That's great craft." Funny, but not the best advertising for a firm that does business with the government. On the other hand, Stratfor says that some details of its' material may have been altered or forged. Or could that be disinformation (see "Barium Leaks" under said Glossary)? [Source: Time World, 2/28/12)] 1. Best Public Interest Hack When Anonymous, the Hacker's collective, went after the Assad regime, it found juicy advice from a press aide in advance of a Barbara Walter's interview, telling the president's office that "the American psyche can be easily manipulated," and that President Assad should compare the mass murder committed by his forces to the action of New York police in evicting Occupy Wall Street. The president's secure password? 12345. What, Asma doesn't have a poodle with a cute name? [Source: Haaretz.com, 2/7/12]http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/4vpZf8Gf5oI/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=188Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=188In Digital Assassination we recounted the case of Luis Mijangos, a young man in California who went to prison for "sextorting" hundreds of women and girls. Now a 27-year-old Glendale man has been charged by the FBI for the same crime, and with similar numbers. Both cases are remarkably similar, in which the perp hacks into the victim's computer and compromises intimate pictures, along with all their contact information and email traffic with boyfriend. Armed with blackmail material, the perp then persuades a surprisingly high percentage of the victims into performing lewd acts for his amusement in front of the computer's pinhole camera. Remember - The same computer that lets you Skype with a friend across the country can let a hacker see you Intimate photos are like dandelions - they want to go everywhere And if someone tries to sextort you, go to the FBI. They have experience in this field, and will deal with your issue with sensitivity.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/nchcEkjDEnA/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=186Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=186First The New York Times now The Wall Street Journal, have been infilitrated by Chinese hackers who aren't keen on our ideals about Freedom of Speech. The hackers ascertained passwords and credentials from top journalists at The Times involved in anexpos and eacute; on Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao. This fall, the expos and eacute;'s release spurred the Chinese government blocked access to The Times' website in mainland China. The Journal reports hackers in their systems were monitoring their China coverage. First The New York Times now The Wall Street Journal, have been infilitrated by Chinese hackers who aren't keen on our ideals about Freedom of Speech. The hackers ascertained passwords and credentials from top journalists at The Times involved in an expos and eacute; on Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao. This fall, the expos and eacute;'s release spurred the Chinese government to blocked access to The Times' website in mainland China.The Journal reports hackers in their systems were monitoring their China coverage. .http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/tv0Ezc85Rdo/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=187Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=187Military prosecutors plan to demonstrate that among the interested readers of Pfc. Bradley Manning's leak of classified materials to WikiLeaks was one Osama bin Laden. It appears bin Laden asked for, and received, select leaked materials from Al Qaeda operatives. How do we know this? Presumably, bin Laden's reading list was scooped up by Seal Team 6 members when they raided the terrorist's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. U.S. government officials have previously claimed that in the volumes of leaked material is information that could help a terrorist locate the vulnerable spot in critical infrastructure. Once again, we are reminded how blurry the line can be between digital assassination and actual assassination.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/xDCDmkYE8Zg/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=185Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=185In an era when so much of our lives is shared online, tucked away behind passwords and security protocol, how can a greiving family hold on to those memories. The Atkin's family story exposes the heartbreaking side of online security. Just weeks after losing their youngest daughter to colon cancer, her digital footprint -- photos, poems, memories -- began to lock or erase. Unable to secure the passwords, the family was powerless. Many online networks delete the content of users' profile when given a death certificate. And of course sites shouldn't surrend passwords -- even to loved ones -- without legal consent, but what if you don't want all your material deleted? The law is progressing much slower than technology, as we've seen before, but work is being done in the field of 'digital-assets law.' In the end, if you want loved ones to have access to your digital legacy, give them access to the passwords.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/n-zcDYIyNQc/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=183Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=183Tired of your kid shutting himself off from the world, hitting the toggles in a violent, multiplayer video game? A man in China was - so frustrated, in fact, that he hired game masters to deal themselves into his son's game to kill his son's avatar over and over again in an effort to get him to stop playing.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/ObAM3WT5OzA/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=182Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=182Your phone is basically a pocket-sized computer. It stores bank accounts, credit cards, passwords, and maybe some embarrassing photos. And where there's personal data, you'll find hackers and malware designed steal it. This unsuprising trend is still in the beginning stages, but be smart and get ahead of it. It's easy...there's an app for that. All Things Digital's Bonnie Cha recently reviewed two free security apps, Lookout Mobile Security and avast! Mobile Security. Each offers the basic malware and virus detection software, but there are a few differences. For example only Lookout allows you to back up your data, but Avast has several options to protect your data if you phone is lost or stolen. I went with the Avast option for that reason, but take a look at Cha's comprehensive reviews and choose for yourself.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/QtTroqiniJE/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=181Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=181Rob Enderle, leading tech analyst in Silicon Valley, named Digital Assassination his product of the week in his TechNewsWorld post on safety and problem-solving. The money quote... "Increasingly, your reputation will be your greatest personal asset in a digital world. If you don't learn how to protect it, then you may lose that reputation, and with it much of your career potential." He hit the nail on the head.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/YmE2GZw00HA/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=180Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=180On page 167-68 of our book we tell the story of a Michigan couple who allegedly stole General Motor's hybrid design secrets and offered them GM's Asian competitor Chery. Of course, Chery has no recollection of the scheme, but if you remember the company is no stranger to GM secrets. In 2005, the car company released their QQ model and hellip;an exact copy of the recently released GM Spark. And we mean so exact each cars' parts were perfectly interchangeable. A reader recently shared an update on that Michigan couple. Yu Qin and his wife, Shanshan Du, a former General Motors engineer, were convicted in December of stealing trade secrets, wire fraud and obstruction. The Feds don't think the stolen information made it to China and GM is downplaying the leak's potential financial and commercial fallout, but to us this is another case of the volatile combination of human greed and corruption and today's technology. Thanks Ryan R. for sharing the update. We love to hear from our readers. Please feel free to comment on the blog or contact us directly.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/FqqzoIvuQRQ/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=179Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=179"To be clear: it is not our intention to sell your photos," Instagram founder Kevin Systrom wrote on the company's blog Wednesday. "We are working on updated language in the terms to make sure this is clear." Well that took long. Less than a day after Insta-Gate 2012 began, the photo-sharing company did an about face. Users were inflamed at Instagram's updated terms of use that seemed to allow the company to sell users photos to advertisers with not notification or compensation to the user. We're not sure if this was an honest misinterpretation as Systrom would like you to think or if they were trying to pull the wool over our eyes. Regardless of their aim this is just the beginning and hellip; Facebook's IPO changed the game. Investors don't care how many users, likes, posts or photos you have. They want dollars. And right now the only way to monetize social media is by selling its massive data deposits to advertisers. In his op-ed, CNN columnist Douglas Rushkoff makes the crucial point: "Let's hope these early experiences of investing in free stuff only to learn the true cost will make us more ready to think twice about when and how we wish to participate. For if we're not paying in money, we'll end up paying with something else."http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/3zO3nNP3DJc/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=178Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=178Your CEO posts on Facebook. The stock sky-rockets. SEC files a civil claim. That's what Netflix and CEO Reed Hastings are dealing with after Hastings told his 200,000 Facebook fans that Netflix viewing "exceeded 1 billion hours" of videos in June. The shares jumped 6.2 percent that day. We can argue back and forth whether or not the information was 'material.' Hasting's didn't see it that way, but clearly many investors did. The real issue is when will the SEC catch up to reality and adjust its regulations to explictly include social media? As Charley Moore, founder of San Fran-based online legal services firm Rocket Lawyer says, "Disclosing information to 200,000-plus Facebook users is basically the same as issuing a press release."http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/epWvUsKsobE/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=177Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=177Krebs on Security reports on a unique Russian language ad campaign: An online service boldly advertised in the cyber underground lets miscreants hire accomplices in several major U.S. cities to help empty bank accounts, steal tax refunds and intercept fraudulent purchases of high-dollar merchandise. The principal service being offered is money laundering, with the laundry keeping as much as 45 percent of the loot. According to the IRS, just the reaping of false refunds from federal and state government costs taxpayers .2 billion last year. What's Russian for "creep"?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/wRfXp3fT8LI/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=176Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=176As Gaza is ripped with gunfire, another powerful weapon is being hurled from both sides and hellip;140 characters a time. The Gaza tweets have reignited the debate of terrorists on Twitter. Seven Republicans lawmakers demand the FBI shut down the militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah Twitter accounts to stop the spread of 'violent propaganda.' There is no doubt Twitter acts as today's propaganda posters, but let's look at both sides of the argument from a New York Times piece and hellip; For. Texas Congress Ted Poe: Through Twitter the groups "are amassing more followers and threatening the security of the United States. We freeze terrorist organizations' bank accounts, and we ought to freeze their Twitter accounts, too." Against. Jonathan Zittrain, a professor at Harvard Law School and a founder FBI of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. "I think it's as contrary to the First Amendment as openness is the enemy to extremism and fundamentalism. The F.B.I. is going to learn more about Hamas and any organizations, by having them operate in an open environment, than if its voice is driven to proxies and underground backchannels, which would inevitably happen immediately." Necessary military action, dangerous step towards restricted freedom, or a way to keep an eye on terrorist factions? Where do you stand?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/aKhd57O4GAE/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=175Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=175The tragic death of Jasmine Benjamin, a 17 year-old south Georgia college student serves as a macabre reminder of the power of social media. As a crime-solving tool, social media stands toe-to-toe with autopsy reports, finger prints and private investigators. Jasmine's parents first learned of their daughter's death not from the police, but from a Facebook post forwarded by a family friend, but rather than condemn the police department, the family is embracing the power of social media to uncover information on Jasmine's death -- now treated as a homicide. Facebook is being combed for clues to Jasmine's death. Any suspicious Facebook comments or status may shine light on the case. Last spring the Criminal Justice Degree Guide put together a riveting - if not unsettling - inforgraphic of 20 crimes solved thanks to Facebook. We're glad to see police departments around the world are harnessing social media to bring criminals to justice.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/-SfOtA5wtdQ/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=173Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=173Mat Hoan in Wired speaks of the dystopian future present when he writes about the near uselessness of passwords. Money quote: This summer, hackers destroyed my entire digital life in the span of an hour. My Apple,Twitter, and Gmail passwords were all robust - seven, 10, and 19 characters, respectively, all alphanumeric, some with symbols thrown in as well - but the three accounts were linked, so once the hackers had conned their way into one, they had them all. They really just wanted my Twitter handle: @mat. As a three-letter username, it's considered prestigious. And to delay me from getting it back, they used my Apple account to wipe every one of my devices, my iPhone and iPad and MacBook, deleting all my messages and documents and every picture I'd ever taken of my 18-month-old daughter. He concludes, not incorrectly, that the current infrastructure is unsustainably insecure. Meanwhile, this is the state of play - and we have to live with it. Another piece by Nicole Perlroth in The New York Times gives the latest advice on password protections from the obvious (never use the same password twice) to the not-so (ignore security what's-your-favorite color questions). Hoan has some good advice as well. Since a little research or guesswork can break a security question, give a funky answer. For example, is you are asked what was your first car, instead of "Toyota," write "Camper Van Beethoven Freaking Rules."http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/q6tzErvpQi0/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=172Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=172Rich and I attended the dinner in New York where Defense Secretary Leon Panetta echoed our warnings and spoke about the potential for a "digital Pearl Harbor." Our reaction? Panetta's speech, even laced as it was about new details on Iran's attempts at cyber terror, was all so . . . 2008. Still, it was reported as big news, although the vulnerability of the electrical grid and chemical plants has been well reported. Past CIA and NSA chiefs have issued similar warnings. The Secretary did add a commendable plea to protect companies that share information from rapcious trial lawyers armed with class action lawsuits. Still, credit Panetta for making the most high-profile, bright line plea ever for increased cybersecurity. If this doesn't get our elected represenatives to act on a comprehensive approach to cyber security after the election, then we are tempted to say we deserve what we are about to get. But no, if we are hit by a state-sponsored attack on the grid and key facilities, it will be far worse than any attack before.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/mhrzm14OHPM/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=171Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=171The complete transcript from Richard Torrenzano's Twitter conversation on Monday is now available on #CommsChats website. We always keep the conversation going to on Twitter. Follow us @D_Assassinationhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/Rz5I9jTbSKw/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=170Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=170While China angrily denounces Tuesday's Congressional report on telecom firms Huawei's and ZTE's potential for cyber-spying, analysts recently found that if one types in a code - ZTEX1609523 - it creates a backdoor in Android phones, granting a complete ability to monitor text messages, listen to calls or install malicious programs. China can't have it both ways - pervasively deploy almost its entire private-sector to spy on the U.S. government and business, and expect Americans to welcome their high-tech firms into the heart of U.S. telecom.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/7gjo_ooV99M/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=169Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=169Gov. Jerry Brown of California took the bold - and in our view, necessary step - of signing into law a measure that forbids employers from asking for passwords to our Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts. The truth is, I think HR departments around the country (remember, what starts in California goes everywhere) will breathe a sigh of relief.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/AVFaeR9c5xI/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=168Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=168Co-author, Richard Torrenzano will headline CommsChat's live Twitter discussion on Monday, October 8th at 3:00pm EST. Sign on and discuss the dark side of all things digital with Torrenzano. CommsChat is home to one of the most popular communications conversations on the web. The weekly conversations look at all aspects of communications including PR, marketing, reputation management, internal communications and all thing digital. Join the conversation using #CommsChat. To actively participate you do need a Twitter account, though it is not essential to view the conversation. Facebook Event Add the event to your calendarhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/qFvGNXnWnco/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=167Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=167U.S. Navy has developed malicious software that can remotely seize control of the camera on an infected smartphone and employ it to spy on the phone's user. Another reason to regard your cellphone as a stranger at the table. Similar to the UK product we discussed in October of this year.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/nXFKil6yNIo/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=162Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=162You know now not to open an attachment for a lower mortgage, or one to help you learn Spanish in your sleep. But when an old college friend makes a wry joke about another friend and sends you an attachment about your recent reunion, or your daughter has a funny attachment to show you about her new braces, you will almost always open it. This is Social Engineering - which includes using personal detail to trick you into opening an attachment with malware - now reaching new levels of sophistication. The enabler here is a data-mining service called Maltego, which, The Washington Post reports, lets "users to quickly bring together and analyze disparate details about people from all corners of cyberspace, showing an individual's links to friends, family, work associates and personal interests." The people behind these attacks are quick studies, and sophisticated. That is why one expert calls social engineering "the next biggest attack vector." A related tactic is the "watering hole." Instead of sending you a link, which will set off security concerns, they direct your attention to a respectable website that is a touchstone of your industry - after seeding that authentic site with hidden, malicious code. Where are these attacks coming from? All over. However, The Post reports, some of the most prolific attackers seem to be working a regular 9-5 schedule Shanghai time, and taking off on Chinese holidays. In our view, there is no way to defeat sophisticated social engineering. The only solution we can imagine is a technological one - some way to view attachments in a safe, cordoned space - in much the same way witnesses view suspects from behind a two-way mirror.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/DGJjVJkPFR4/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=161Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=161In this video, "psychic" David Guillame performed "readings" in which he told subjects the secrets of their love life, spending habits, tattoos, and more. The trick? A curtain comes down to reveal the crystal ball Guillame used to get this information - the same crystal ball that can be used against any one of us.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/vdLr9Nc_2h0/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=160Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=160Mark Davis in his U.S. News and World Report blog examines a paradox in the wake of the explosion in the Muslim world over a marginal YouTube video: "The United States, which invented social media, is now at the mercy of physical attack inspired by social media. What will it take for us to get into this game?" One solution: "Government processes are simply too brittle, labyrinthine, and slow-moving to achieve the quick and agile response we need to a social media crisis . . . What is needed is vivid, powerful, compelling, and funny media that only a private organization can produce, funded by U.S. corporations affected by international tension and a few patriotic big donors. "It must be overseen by a board of governors drawn from the highest ranks of media, CEOs, diplomats and U.S. senators, and staffed by a mix of top-notch reputation and messaging experts who work hand-in-glove with area experts to get the nuances of these messages just right. "It must work in a quick, rapid-fire tempo that no government agency can match. It must be allowed to make a few mistakes before getting it right. And it must do something that no government agency could ever do - deploy humor as a weapon to ridicule al Qaeda. "This is not another good idea. It is a necessary project that must get underway now to protect the United States and our people."http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/UnFYG3fwYYA/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=158Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=158One of the most remarkable aspects of the "Innocence of Muslims" debacle is the exposure of the power of Internet companies to arbitrate speech for the world. "Notice that Google has more power over this than either the Egyptian or the U.S. government," said Tim Wu, a Columbia University law professor told The Washington Post. "Most free speech today has nothing to do with governments and everything to do with companies."http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/g5c2D4gJG6Q/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=159Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=159A new program from a U.K. company can turn most cellphones -- including iPhones and Blackberries -- into a compact spy base. The spyware, FinFisher, can intercept e-mails, text messages and Skype calls while tracking your location and listening to your conversations through your microphone. While the company is tightlipped, claiming they do not want to inform criminals of the programs used against them, information from the company's sales demonstration server has already been stolen. How long until this spyware falls into the wrong hands?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/Dbms6i-c7gg/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=157Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=157How to remember all the passcodes for our many digital accounts? Here's a nifty way to create a complex, almost uncrackable passcode (hat tip to Michael Dobson and his amazing Sidewise Thinking blog) you can remember. Start by taking a line from your favorite poem, play, novel or TV show. It could be, say, from Shakespeare's As You Like It: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players . . ." Then construct a password out of the first letters of each word: Atwasaatmawmp You might associate with it an easy-to-remember set of numbers, say Shakespeare's birthday and date of death - April 24, 1564 and April 23, 1616. But reverse the numbers, date of death first, and date of birth last. So now you have a passcode: 4231616Atwasaatmawmp4241564 Or take the recent memorable line from AMC's Breaking Bad: "Jesse, you asked me if I was in the meth business or the money business. Neither. I'm in the empire business." That now becomes: JyamiIwitmbotmbnIiteb Add to that the birthdate of Breaking Bad's actor Bryan Cranston, March 7, 1956 - but you might break up the date and reverse the year of his birth. Now you have a passcode: 37JyamiIwitmbotmbnIiteb6591 As you enjoy Shakespeare or Breaking Bad, just pick up the memorable lines and favorite actors and turn them into memorable passcodes. Just remember to keep track of the set of rules you apply to the numbers.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/YqE3c2TmM38/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=156Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=156Matt Fisher, a New York comedian, tweeted "My Sister Paid @Progressive Insurance To Defend Her Killer In Court," sparking a back-and-forth social media nightmare for the insurance company. After the death of Fisher's sister, Kaitlynn, killed in a Baltimore traffic accident, the Fisher family was forced to sue the other (underinsured) driver in the accident. Fischer's Tumblr posts maintain that a lawyer for Progressive Insurance backed the defense - a claim that Progressive denies (but journalists report that court records seem to uphold). In a profoundly stupid move, Progressive Insurance Company responded to the tragedy with tweets that included the smiling moniker of its iconic character, Flo, played by actress Stephanie Courtney. Social media can humiliate the most powerful corporations. Actor Will Wheaton piled on by posting a PR bot mechanically reading Progressive's posts. Now everyone is heaping blame on Progressive's PR department. It's been our experience, however, that when such cluelessness occurs, there is often a lawyer to blame. Most lawyers we work with are sophisticated about PR, but there are still some real dinosaurs out there. Our bet is that someone from Legal clicked the tweet that sent the Flo Bot round the world.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/pw_eTxaW22c/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=155Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=155They can cry "power grab" all they want. But the Republicans have only themselves to blame for tempting President Obama to float a trial balloon on issuing an executive order on cybersecurity after killing a weakened version of the Cybersecurity Act last week. The fact remains that the critical infrastructure of the United States remains painfully vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Who will want to explain why they were against cybersecurity when the smoke is clearing?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/YlQGMRmHgpE/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=154Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=154The failure of the U.S. Senate to pass a cybersecurity bill this week occurred after intense Chamber of Commerce lobbying against the measure. The dispute is over the right approach: data sharing between the federal government and business alone, or the addition of tight "voluntary" standards that would cost industry some time and attention. Business should rethink its opposition. Upgrading cybersecurity standards is costly. Paying huge sums in class-action judgments after hundreds or thousands of people have been killed by a cyber attack on a critical facility would be even more expensive - not to mention a moral indictment of the short-sightedness of business leaders. In researching Digital Assassination, we uncovered shocking vulnerabilities in utility, water and chemical plant SCADA systems. When the Senate gets back in September, will they get on the stick and do something? The danger to American lives is not a fantasy out of Tom Clancy potboiler. The danger is real and it is imminent. This is one time we really don't want to say, "told you so."http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/5dDvjewLZgI/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=153Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=153Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the National Security Agency and the U.S. Cyber Command, reports a 17-fold increase in computer attacks on American infrastructure between 2009 and 2011, from criminal gangs, hackers and other nations. We've gotten used to reading about smash-and-grab attacks of financial data. This is different. Remember folks, that boring word "infrastructure" means the electrical grid, water supplies, computer and cellphone networks. Turning the "off" switch on our electricity, or messing with water quality, could kill thousands. We've long argued that the Internet-based SCADA controls of much our infrastructure - including chemical plants - is just not a viable way to operate. Let's hope this sinks in before something truly unthinkable happens.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/_5AV5qIAtvY/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=152Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=152After claiming to have gotten rid of all their Street-View data from WiFi snooping, Google now admits to British, European and Australian authorities that the company held onto some of it. Is this a case of don't be evil, or don't be stupid?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/vx323Fi09Kc/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=151Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=151Ying Ma's memoir, Chinese Girl in the Ghetto, describes her family's plight - their escape from Mao's China, their efforts to make it in an Oakland terrorized by gangs. What ads do Google's spiders link to her book on Amazon? Girls in China - 100s of Girls in China Download Asian Teen Images for Free She writes in The Weekly Standard: When I first saw these, I winced. Then I realized that the words "Chinese Girl" must have caused Amazon's ad technology to identify my book as a product that might appeal to people who also had a crass interest in Asian women. After calling Amazon repeatedly, it became clear that would take a month to clear out the offensive ads. Still, I thought - a month? For four more weeks, by no fault of my own, my book would be publicly associated with online trafficking in vulgar fantasies. Isn't Amazon a Fortune 500 company on the cutting edge of e-commerce? Shouldn't it be able to flip a switch and stop my book from being used to flog Asian teens? Yes, it should. She calls for a "smarter, more discerning Internet."http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/aH2s9qcIaTY/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=150Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=150The FDA's digital snooping on a handful of scientists - purportedly over concern about the improper disclosure of confidential business information - should act as a warning to every person who uses the office computer for personal emailing, Facebooking and the occasional surf. Using SpectorSoft, (which promises corporate customers it will track employees and "what web sites they are visiting, who they are instant messaging with, who they are emailing, what they are typing, when they are working and when they are playing") the FDA hoovered 80,000 pages worth of material. So you think your boss doesn't know about your house-porn addiction on realtor.com? Think again.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/8roWptAJ2Hs/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=149Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=149Christopher Chaney, who hacked Scarlett Johansson's intimate images and that of many other actresses, just got sentenced to five years in prison and must pay the actress ,000 in restitution. He will pay more than 0,000 in all to some of the more than 50 celebrities whose privacy he violated. We say that is good news - this crime is being taken seriously. Keep in mind that Chaney was able to get control of mobile devices by guessing celebrities' passwords based on the names of boyfriends, poodles, and other details easily gleaned from glamour mags. He was also able to make good use of the "I forgot my password" button to worm into systems. Lesson learned - don't be obvious!http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/ZDjsDpYyRqQ/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=147Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=147McAfee and Guardian Analytics report that the hack attack that extracted $60 million euros from high-balance accounts shows "an insider level of understanding" of the targeted banks. They embedded internal programs that appear non-suspicious to security software. Now how did they know that? Got to be a movie premise in there somewhere.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/sp4Eiojhqf4/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=148Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=148Acxiom Corp., the faceless, largely invisible data-mining company based outside of Little Rock, is getting renewed press attention this week. It not only likely knows your age, race, sex, weight, height, marital status, education level, politics, buying habits, household worries and vacation dreams - it can also pigeonhole you into one of 70 very specific socioeconomic clusters to predict what you'll do next. In all, it has "an ever-growing dossier of 1,500 data points on you." In light of recent scandals with the de-anonymizing of personal info from Facebook apps, it is easy to worry how this information could be misused. We also wonder: Do all these data points add up to a pointillistic portrait of you that is realistic, or distorted?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/z-Q8ypEus2g/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=146Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=146First came the news that the United States leads the world with takedown demands to Google for online content. Now we have some numbers to put behind that story. From July to December last year, U.S. police, prosecutors, courts and other government agencies submitted 187 requests to remove content. This was more than double the 92 requests from January to June, 2011. In all, the United States sought to censor nearly 6,200 items. For those interested in using legal tactics to remove material, take note that the 187 U.S. requests included 117 court orders to remove defamatory material.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/2dfc886p1tI/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=145Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=145It looks like the worst PR disaster in history. A Shell Oil executive turns on a model rig, which then proceeds to douse oil onto frightened dignitaries. In the ensuring melee, a fascistic operative demands that the person holding the mobile device that is filming the scene surrender it immediately. It is such a bad scene, it is seems a little too pat to be true. Which it is. In our book, we chronicle the many ways in which the Yes Men have digitally impersonated companies, brands, PR campaigns and corporate spokespersons. Here, someone has set up a phony press conference gone wrong. Shell PR issued a prompt denial, but this digital lie went viral around the world before truth could put its shoes on.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/z6pWKQqYdf0/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=144Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=144Change your LinkedIn password now! Hackers have breached the social media site, exposing 6.5 million user's passwords.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/xSoMUwFAP84/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=143Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=143Richard Torrenzano, co-author of Digital Assassination will present to the Foreign Press Association on Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at Kennedy's Restaurant in New York. Rich will take the audience beyond the technology to examine what social media, history, pop culture and futuristic science tells us about the Internet and predict what the end of privacy will mean to society. The Foreign Press Association of New York is a nonprofit, independent, professional body of foreign correspondents based in the United States. Founded in 1918, the Foreign Press Association represents more than 400 members from 50 different countries. Although the bulk of its members come from Europe, there is not a single region in the world which is not represented among the membership.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/OTlKoXgKMv8/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=142Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=142The Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights, traumatized by a spate of break-ins, can rest easy now that New York police are Facebook friends with an infamous gang. Making full use of social media, the members of the Brower Boys gang posted details about what they would do on "break-in day on the avenue." Their lame attempts at communicating in code were easily unraveled by police, who used an alias to get into their network with a "friend" request. As a result, when members of the gang made their next move, New York's finest were waiting for them with pairs of personalized hand-bracelets. Lesson learned? What works against the Brower Boys can work against us Square Johns, too. Know who you are friending.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/b3VAOKgONzs/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=140Thu, 31 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=140Sergei Skorobogatov of the Computer Laboratory of Cambridge University claims to have found secret back-doors in Chinese manufactured computer chips. Money quote: "This particular chip is prevalent in many systems from weapons, nuclear power plants to public transport. In other words, this backdoor access could be turned into an advanced Stuxnet weapon to attack potentially millions of systems. The scale and range of possible attacks has huge implications for National Security and public infrastructure."http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/A9ImYLKxZls/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=141Tue, 29 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=141Here is a pessimistic take on Facebook from Michael Wolff. Money quote: "Facebook is not only on course to go bust, but will take the rest of the ad-supported Web with it." The theory is that with ever-declining CPM - cost per thousand ad impressions - Facebook will become the next Yahoo or even AOL. Give its size, it will glut the market and bring down the ad-driven model of the Web. If this turns out to be true - and it is certainly plausible - we wonder about the inexorable pressure such a meltdown would exert on the company to sell out the remnants of our privacy.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/YQcwEFt7K7A/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=139Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=139Jeremy Paxman, a British anchorman, revealed some common techniques hackers use to get into your voicemail. Testifying before a public inquiry about the hacking scandal, the UK's The Independent reports the anchor as purportedly quoting Piers Morgan from a 2002 lunch: Mr Paxman told the inquiry: "He turned to me and said 'Have you got a mobile phone?' "I said yes and he asked if there was a security setting on the message bit of it. I didn't know what he was talking about. "He then explained the way to get access to people's messages was to go to the factory default setting and press either 0000 or 1234 and that if you didn't put on your own code, his words, 'You're a fool'."http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/AXvnNQEA_LA/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=138Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=138Our phones are our lives - where we go, who we call, what we text and write. Now the police in London have a system in place to suck out all the information from a target's mobile phone. This from ComputerWorld UK: The Metropolitan Police has rolled out a mobile device data extraction system to allow officers to extract data "within minutes" from suspects' phones while they are in custody. The police insist they have safeguards in place to guard against the misuse of any personal information they acquire. It is hard to imagine this degree of warrantless invasion being allowed by the U.S. Supreme Court on this side of the pond. The bigger point is that what can be done will be done - if not by the police, then by somebody else.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/t-3s9SQoNyU/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=137Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=137When you hear about big Facebook and Twitter fails, it is usually a student who didn't get into the college of choice because of an incriminating photo, or a lower-level employee or middle-manager who made an incredibly indiscreet remark. You would expect that there should be an even higher standard for those in the C-suite, especially executives who have access to information that is proprietary and highly confidential. Now the CFO of a Houston-based company lost his million-dollar plus job after making Facebook posts like: "Earnings released. Conference call completed. How do you like me now Mr. Shorty?" And - "Dinner w/Board tonite. Used to be fun. Now one must be on guard every second." In some cases, the government has forced employers to reinstate employees under the National Labor Relations Act who vented on social media after working hours - under the theory that such discussions enable their collective bargaining rights. Hard to make that case in the C-Suite.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/t3HsH-5911E/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=136Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=136A must-read New York Times article concerns the different ways parents deal with the issue of Internet porn and their kids. Some parents install strong filters and closely monitor what their children watch. Others take a fatalistic attitude - and try to engage their kids in calm and non-accusatory conversations. Among the more disturbing episodes in this story. One 6-year-old girl, watching "My Little Pony" videos, clicked a related link that led her right to sexually explicit material based on cartoon characters. One 13-year-old boy asked his mom why women like to be choked. One father worried that the search terms entered by his 14-year-old son could unintentionally violate child-porn laws. The Times repeats what we always say - if you worry if your children are going to see porn, you can quit worrying. They will. Our bottom-line advice stands: The best filters we can install are the one's we cultivate in our children's heads.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/k3hiwG1Jvak/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=135Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=135For the tech savvy, it is important to remember the pace at which organizations are catching up with technology. McKinsey Quarterly reports on a recent survey of how deeply some 4,200 executives have integrated social tools and technology into their operations. They report that social networking, video sharing, blogs and microblogging are at critical scale, with 72 percent of respondents reporting that they use at least one of these platforms. Upward of 40 percent specify that they use social networks or blogs. We think the right hand column is the most interesting - the rise of video sharing and microblogging (though most have yet to enter the Twitterverse).http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/7stW-9Uk_3A/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=134Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=134Consumer Reports's National Research Center did a nationally representative survey of 2,002 respondents on personal sercurity. -- Projecting from that, it estimates that 16 million households have become victims of identity theft over the past year. That's up by 50 percent. -- Almost half of the victims - 7.8 million people - were notified that their personal information was hacked or lost by a company, government agency or some other organization. That's more than double CR's projection a year ago. And most disturbing of all . . . -- About 7.4 million households reported that an unauthorized person placed charges on one of their existing credit-card accounts. -- 1.6 million households had to replace an infected computer, with total national cost due to malware infections almost .3 billion.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/4ebnSTwG9k0/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=133Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=133A high school principal in Clayton, Missouri, resigned after appearing to have been outed by students as "Suzie Harriston," a phony student on Facebook. Many students thoughtlessly accepted "Suzy's" friend request. After one student questioned if Suzy might, in fact, be the principal - the resignation of the high school principal was suddenly announced. We've heard from high school students for several years now about supposed classmates on Facebook that no one seems to know. It is taken as a matter of accepted fact by students that high school administrators use social media to snoop on them - mainly just to keep an eye on what's going around and coming down. The only real surprise here is that someone finally lost their job over it.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/_O_-1l4Lcfw/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=132Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=132Feel discriminated against by the TSA, and want to report them? Well, there's an app for that! Want to stay current with an aggregator of TSA outrages? Well, there's a wiki for that! Want to get a different perspective on the fears that motivate TSA's seemingly aggressive approach? Well, there's a blog post for that - by one of the authors of Digital Assassination!http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/159zy6ErL9c/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=131Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=131Wired details a chilling case of digital assassination in which Korean hip hop artist Daniel Lee had his soaring career cut short by an orchestrated campaign to cast doubt on his real and verifiable achievements. This purposeful campaign got Lee's brother fired and, according to Wired, threats to stab Lee and his brother to death proliferated. Now the former hip hop star, a new father, has become a hermit at age 30, hiding out with his family. In our book, we document the terror victims suffer when in the grips of the Human Flesh Search Engine and its mindless rage. What is unique here is the ability of this particular campaign to continue unabated even after its lies have been exposed, its logic utterly debunked. That it does, speaks of something worse than just misguided resentment, wrong channeled. It speaks of a kind of nihilism, an enjoyment of a public spectacle of cruelty. South Korea's Human Flesh Search Engine is impervious to any amount of documentation.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/Y_7X1wPjst0/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=130Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=130The police blotter at the University of Texas at Austin reports a recent case that should be of interest to everyone. A student reported that her Apple iPad, Tom Tom, several credit cards, personal identification, purse and a musical instrument were stolen. After calling the police, she quickly led officers right to the thieves, who were arrested. All the items were recovered. The police credited the cracking of this case to the young woman having taken the time to install tracking software onto her computer - advice that the UT compared to "lock your doors when you leave."http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/qpceyYamm8Y/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=129Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=129This just in from the UK's Mail Online: A 'guinea pig' generation of children is growing up addicted to hardcore internet pornography, MPs were warned last night. Four out of five 16-year-old boys and girls regularly access porn online while one in three ten-year-olds has seen explicit material, a disturbing cross-party report reveals. Clearly, the time has come for technology companies to look for ways to protect kids. With all the mobile devices in play, the effectiveness of simple parental filtering is no longer very effective. While we would be the last ones to advocate censorship, we wonder if there is some way to virtually "zone" porn?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/IiZ-WcGIHYI/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=128Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=128There are apps out there that can run on your phone undetected tracking your every keystroke and phone call. Christina DesMarais of MSNBC.com tech blog Gadgetbox outlines signs your phone may have been hacked and what do if you think your privacy has been comprised. Read the story here.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/05jdMxPnOV4/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=127Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=127In light of the new breach of as many as 1.5 million credit card numbers from Global Payments (which processes MasterCard and Discover), keep in mind that the tactics of the criminal syndicates behind these hacks has changed. Rather than put big charges on your card - which will trigger automatic scrutiny - they are now nicking millions of accounts for small charges. They don't slaughter the cow. They bleed it a little each day knowing that most people will write off small charges, writing them off to forgetful memories. The takeaway: Scrutinize your credit card statement, and report anything that seems off - even if it is a small charge.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/m_cz44-VDIw/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=126Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=126Why not? Give them the keys to you house and your car while you're at it. Oh, and here's my diary. The juicy stuff is on page 66. This newest intrusion, this time by corporate HR, into our personal lives is too ridiculous to stand. In fact, no sooner did the first articles appear on this last week than New York's ever-eager headline hound, Sen. Chuck Schumer, joined by another shrinking violet, Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut (a former state AG alert to the power of consumer outrage), to call on Department of Justice and the EEOC to investigate. Facebook itself is warning prospective employers off of this tactic, saying it is a lawsuit magnet. Caught between trial lawyers and the feds, employers will surely back off. So you likely won't have to choose between putting bread on the table, and opening your digital kimono. Of course, none of this matters if you have liberal privacy settings that allow anyone to see what you post. The larger issue is tagged by a Digital Assassination reader on our Facebook page: "The fine line of freedom of expression vs. ethical restraint is cracking in the age of social media, distorted on both sides." What is lacking - and appalling - whether it is the Facebook scraping scandal, in which vendors were allowed to correlate mountains of personal data with actual identities, or this overreach by corporate HR - is a fundamental lack of common sense.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/ENIUtAPxPEo/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=123Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=123What is the biggest threat to national security right now? 1) Cyber Attacks 2) Iran 3) Al-Qaeda 4) The Economic Crisis Leave a comment and weigh in on the debate. Or cast your vote on our Facebook pagehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/6wTKtQJsSic/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=124Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=124Whether it's car insurance or the next President there's no denying social media is a persuasion powerhouse. The Wall Street Journal took a look at consumer and political digital advertising in two stories over the weekend. Like many of the issues we discuss in the book, the idea of selling candidates like consumer products is nothing new and hellip;It's the technology that's different. Read More: In Hot Pursuit of the Digital Voter - The Wall Street Journal Knights, Pirates, Trees Flock to Facebook - The Wall Street Journalhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/0oJDovazZYM/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=125Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=125Occupy protesters are learning firsthand the Miranda rights have been rewritten. "What you tweet will be held against you in a court of law!" Manhattan prosecutors are using subpoenaed Twitter records to prove Occupy Wall Street protestors intended to break the law as they marched over the Brooklyn Bridge in October -- making their 'entrapment' claims less believable. What you post on the internet stays on the internet and hellip;FOREVER. Read More: Protesters See Tweets Used Against Them - Wall Street Journalhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/xGYrtQiTkzo/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=122Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=122One of the authors was just in Farmington, New Mexico, and stopped to take this irresistible picture. Which brings to mind Rick Santorum's promise to crack down on Internet porn. UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh says that Santorum's proposal has a solid legal basis. But is it technically realistic? And do we want our government to have that much oversight over us? Santorum's effort would require legions of prosecutors to shut down domestic porn sites and aggressive use of filters to black out foreign sites. Even then, Santorum's war would be a permanent stalemate and a constant game of whack-a-mole. The only filters that truly work are those we install in our heads.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/PS-Y5fSAqAk/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=121Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=121Search powerhouse Google is under investigation in both the U.S. and E.U. for the pushing the privacy envelope once again. This time they have been accused on bypassing the privacy settings of millions of Apple Safari users -- installing "cookies" to track users movements. The question becomes what is more important: gathering user data by any means necessary...or obeying the law...and respecting your users? Sadly, it's the answer is the latter. Read More: Google in New Privacy Probes - Wall Street Journalhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/1SuzYkcCihI/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=119Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=119In a Siri-like move, Google will begin act more human. "Google's search engine will begin spitting out more than a list of blue Web links. It will also present more facts and direct answers to queries at the top of the search-results page," according to the Wall Street Journal. The infamous algorithm will face a revamp -- transforming from a keyword model to one based on semantics. It will use its massive database to understand searches in context. One commonly used example: a semantic search "Can differentiate between words with more than one meaning, such as the car brand 'Jaguar' and the animal 'jaguar.'" It will be interesting to see the effect this has on SEO practices. Read More: Google Gives Search a Refresh - Wall Street Journalhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/KSUhy5GW5JA/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=120Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=12086. That's the number of hack attacks on computer systems in the U.S. that control critical infrastructure, factories and databases in the past five months, the Department of Homeland Security reports. None caused significant damage, but with those kinds of number it's only a matter of time until one assassin succeeds. Read More: New Interest in Hacking as Threat to Security - New York Timeshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/gjHt01MDgWY/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=116Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=116Rebekah Brooks, former News International chief executive, was arrested in London early Tuesday according to an article posted at noon today in The New York Times online editionhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/ccSJ0fCLQ3w/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=115Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=115Anonymous continues to top its own depravity. This time a British man behind shield of Anonymous boasted on Twitter about securing the database records of 100,000 women who had received abortions. He threatened to release all the details. Luckily, he was apprehended before he could go ahead with his twisted plan. Read More: Anonymous hacker planned to publish details of women who had abortions - The Guardianhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/xSbB7Sv6xS0/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=118Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=118China has the capability to mount a massive cyberattack on the U.S., but the U.S. has no solid plan in place to respond to the threat, according to the a report by U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Should we send Obama a copy of our book? Read More: U.S. Report to Warn on Cyberattack Threat From China - Wall Street Journalhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/gLw8yRxhjaE/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=117Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=117A Stratfor email says that the U.S. has drawn up secret charges to prosecute Julian Assange. Is he an evil, terrorist-enabling jackanapes who should be behind bars? Or is he a fearless real-life version of Stieg Larsson's Mikael Blomkvist?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/PXuJms9lpPY/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=114Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=114The New York Times was abuzz with the topic of privacy concerns yesterday, as they ran two stories on consumers' right to their own data both abroad and at home. Looks like the EU is taking a real stand - a proposed law would force all online businesses (including Big Brother Facebook) to wipe clean all consumer data upon request. Could a law like this every make it in the USA? Probably not, but the Obama administration has pushed hard for a 'Privacy Bill of Rights' to give users a sense of control over their data and hellip;but is it really anything more than a sense? Further Reading: Risk and Riches in User Data for Facebook - New York Times Opt-Out Provision Would Halt Some, but Not All, Web Tracking - New York Timeshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/8ICRZPNCOcM/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=113Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=113By Richard Torrenzano and Mark Davis Command Post CP Note: Feb 23, 2012, Salon.com reported : In 2010 WikiLeaks released a file named insurance.aes256 and on Wednesday released another "insurance" file with an "aes" name. AES-256, a currently unbreakable encryption scheme, appears to keep the files scrambled until a password is published. Assange has said little about them, but he did say "insurance files" would be released in a certain scenario: "if something happens to me or to WikiLeaks." February 27 2012, Wikileaks announced it had begun publishing "The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor." Richard Torrenzano and Mark Davis share more information about insurance.aes256 and the direction in which hacking and cyber crime are moving. * * * It's called "insurance.aes256." It is a 1.4-gigabyte file large enough to hold hundreds of thousands of pages worth of information. It is protected by a 256-bit key encryption code. . . . At this writing, what it contains is anybody's guess. The claim is that it is something so damaging to the United States that its leaders will back down before pursuing charges against Assange. Insurance.aes256 may be a hoax. But the suggestion that it might be a credible threat represents a monumental change in our civilization - the ability of loosely, self-organized hackers to intimidate governments and large corporations. And yet the WikiLeaks phenomenon is only the public manifestation of the extreme vulnerability of personal, business, and governmental systems to the seventh sword of clandestine combat... Continue Reading INSURANCE.AES256, HACKING AND CYBERCRIME on CommandPost.comhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/NTjN79GjCME/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=111Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=111This time taking on God, launching an attack on the Vatican website. The underground hacking organization hell-bent on taking down some of the world's biggest names has already feasted on Sony, PBS, The White House and the FBI. But it turns out the Vatican isn't as old fashioned as some might think. A full scale attack failed because the Vatican "invested in the infrastructure needed to repel both break-ins and full-scale assaults," according to a New York Times article today. What worries us about Anonymous is just that and hellip;its anonymity. That is what makes it as frighteningly effective as we've seen it over the past few months. "Anyone can use the Anonymous umbrella to hack anyone at anytime," warned Rob Rachwald, Imperva's director of security in the same Times article And the hackers themselves agree, saying just that their Twitter.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/anDvGoZZy98/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=112Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=112Negative reviews on Yelp and other review sites can sting, but how you respond also affects your business and its reputation. Just ask Jason Quinn, a 25-year-old chef who opened a Santa Ana restaurant after winning the Great Food Truck Race on the Food Network. Most of the almost 200 Yelp reviews of Quinn's restaurant, The Playground, are positive. But when he read one-star review with a snide, he responded with a fingertip rant: "KOBE BEEF SHOULD NEVER BE WELL DONE if you disagree YOU ARE WRONG." He signed off, "Burn in hell." It is not without reason that small business owners feel review sites are shooting galleries in which the profanely disgruntled - or perhaps jealous competitors in disguise - can take potshots at your life's work. Continue Reading Don't Fire Back: How to Avoid Fingertip Rants on the American Express OPEN Forumhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/pJ96vUIjiwE/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=109Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=109By Mark W. Davis Julian Assange, the mastermind behind the WikiLeaks circus, awaits likely extradition by a British court to Sweden for sexual assault charges. The Assange saga - convoluted sex charges, digital exposure of the world's most powerful government, and an assured melodrama in an overheated wood-paneled courtroom in Stockholm - is almost an act of plagiarism of the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson by reality. It is certainly hard not to see in his unfolding real-world story about sex and digital skullduggery echoes of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Larsson grabbed our imaginations by exposing marginal hackers and digital practices then at the edge of our awareness. Seven years later, it can seem as if Larsson's menagerie of flawed protagonists and appealing villains has actually sprung to life, as if cut from the molten plastic of his imagination by a 3D printer. One can't help but wonder, then, what Larsson, felled by a heart attack at 50 in 2004, would have made of Assange and WikiLeaks. Continue Reading "What Would Stieg Larsson Have Made of WikiLeaks?" on US News and World Reporthttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/f4w1BJeMDi0/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=110Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=110Barnes and Noble's flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York featured Digital Assassination in their window!http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/1cdAm76dQVw/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=107Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=107Credit.com reports: "VeriSign Inc., the company responsible for assuring that more than half the world's websites are authentic, was hacked multiple times in 2010, and the thieves succeeded in stealing information." One Internet security guru said, "This was the last bastion of what you could trust."http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/qH1tVNbt-Bc/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=108Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=108A BBC reporter unmasks a troll - "Nimrod Severn" - who specializes in marring memorial sites to murder victims with violent, racist slurs. The takeaway here is that techniques that can be used to track down trolls can be used to track down anyone.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/KdlhIF-V3w0/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=106Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=106Tom McNichol of Bloomberg Businessweek reports two telling facts about the state of today's Internet. -- Cleaning up search results is a $1.6 billion business that could be a $5 billion business by 2015. -- The companies that clean up search results can't even keep their own profiles clean. Google's auto-complete feature often suggests "Reputation.com's scam" as a top search term. Other digital reputation fixers have been targeted by an online smear campaign that appear to be orchestrated by a competitor.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/yPWEEZGqLkE/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=105Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=105Anonymous has reared its mischievous head once again. This time they invaded the world's leading investigative bodies: The Federal Bureau of Investigations and Scotland Yard, who were on a conference call discussing and hellip;ironically and hellip;anti-hacking measures. Anonymous intercepted an e-mail including dial-in information for the call. The international hackers got some dirt while eavesdropping. What's next for Anonymous? And how long before their methods are used against them and fail to stay anonymous? Read more: Anonymous Listens in on FBI-Scotland Yard Hacking Call - ABC Newshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/haxF4S_K9Ws/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=104Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=104We've long warned about the dangers of Internet voting - a vulnerability amply demonstrated when University of Michigan students, rising to a public challenge by the District of Columbia to hack its electronic ballots, were able to make the voting system play their school song. Now the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces a plan to migrate from ballots by mail to "secure" Internet voting in 2013. Will this be taken as a challenge by the world hacking community to make Oscar sing a WikiLeaks tune?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/38fMKLAMXJk/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=103Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=103Its deal with the FTC complete, and its IPO underway, Facebook is now fully in the catbird seat. It played fast and loose with privacy to get big. Now that it is big, Facebook is adhering to tighter, higher standards in its comprehensive privacy agreement with the FTC, thus ensuring no one else can follow the same path to dominance. Can any start up now even imagine competing with Facebook?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/pixXznLmjbk/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=102Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=102They hacked our computers. They hacked our laptops. They hacked our mobile devices. Now they can hack our cars - turning the morning commute into an opportunity for espionage. There is even concern that the safety features of a car can be hacked for a literal digital assassination.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/S-B02O-WJi4/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=101Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=101A former NSA director, Homeland Security secretary and deputy secretary of Defense spell out in today's WSJ what we all know - "the Chinese government has a national policy of economic espionage in cyberspace. In fact, the Chinese are the world's most active and persistent practitioners of cyber espionage today." -- They advise companies to "invest more in enhancing their employees' cyber skills; it is shocking how many cyber-security breaches result from simple human error such as coding mistakes or lost discs and laptops. -- They suggest that Congress might require corporate America to "be more open and aggressive about identifying, acknowledging and reporting incidents of cyber theft." What do you think? Should companies be required to disclose breaches?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/UvkbWHAT_P0/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=100Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=100Twitter has now agreed to take down tweets that break the law in one country, while making sure these tweets can be seen in other parts of the world. Tell us: Is this a reasonable compromise that will preserve the maximum amount of speech? Or something worse?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/p3l95Xqgm7E/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=99Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=99...before Google backs down in the face of withering Congressional criticism and media backlash and allows consumers to opt-out of its plan to follow the activities of users across YouTube, Gmail and search. When this happens, this won't represent a major defeat for Google. The American public gets steamed about not being given choices. Once given a privacy choice, only a minority will bother to exercise it. Besides, when we get depressed about privacy, Google/YouTube can always entertain us. Further Reading: Google Widens it Tracks - The Wall Street Journalhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/pDm_Y7fZ-90/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=98Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=98Yesterday's Wall Street Journal piece on hackers for hire is just the tip of the iceberg. Non-technical people have for a few years now been able to buy malware off the shelf in online "hardware stores," assembling digital assassination teams against a given target. Hacking, like everything else digital, is only going to become more democratized - more accessible to us all. So it's a good news, bad news scenario. Black hats may go out of business, but only because everyone can become a black hat.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/7i5yPdPdEU0/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=97Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=97David All, chief creative officer of the David All Group, an online communications and branding firm that offers reputation management and other services, reviewed Digital Assassination: Protecting your Reputation, Brand and Business Against Online Attacks for The Washington Times. All writes: "The Internet is a boundless universe of information and connections that fuels the economy, enhances world culture and fosters democracy. But it also is home to digital assassins who lurk undetected and lob verbal, visual and technological grenades to ruin reputations - and enlist others via social media to achieve their evil ends more quickly. That's the ugly reality of online life as painted by Richard Torrenzano and Mark Davis in their new book, 'Digital Assassination: Protecting Your Reputation, Brand or Business Against Online Attacks.' It's a largely accurate portrayal - one that brands, businesspeople and public officials must take seriously if they want to thrive in today's digital age." Continue reading David All's review of Digital Assassination: Protecting your Reputation, Brand and Business Against Online Attackshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/rWNtVENsU9s/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=96Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=96Evil Clone attack hits GOP primary, Gingrich campaign. This is a double-slam, on Newt and on CNN. First a Google Bomb and now an Evil Clone. What's next for Newt!?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/Ci1mLHipMnE/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=95Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=95It took only an hour to bring down the websites of the Department of Justice, the Recording Industry Association of America, and the Motion Picture Association of America after FBI agents raided Megaupload. Was the raid on Megaupload timed to deliver the fed's message of post-SOPA resolve? But if feds can act so effectively now, is a new law needed? What do you think? Learn more: NZ police raid file-sharing site founder's mansion - APhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/6Cm8FVf5bXI/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=94Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=94Revenge spree over SOPA the Stop Online Piracy Act) comes after it has become clear to just about everyone that the bill has virtually no chance of passage. On the other hand, shutting down the Department of Justice website might backfire on Anonymous. The FBI has some first-rate digital gumshoes.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/pd5TYCrJbJA/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=93Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=93Your Public-Private Political Sentiment: Facebook is now allowing Politico to mine our private status messages and comments to build a database of political sentiment. Of course, they promise (Scout's honor) not to match our private political comments to our personal identities. But, as we say in our book folks, what can be done . . . will be done. By somebody. Remember how data was used to sway a state ballot initiative in California?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/LdB2r_sLMmc/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=92Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=92Wikipedia goes black tonight to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act. Jimmy Wales Tweets, "Student warning! Do your homework early." Is this just grandstanding, or do you think SOPA is really that big a threat to Internet freedom? Read more about the blackout on ABC Newshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/qAty6PQmMN4/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=86Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=86Every day, if you are an average user, 736 pieces of your personal information will be collected and turned into a commodity in a global market. As more is learned about you, your global Internet is then reduced to a personalized Internet more narrow scope. Watch Vimeo's Michael Rigley stunning look at this disturbing phenomenonhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/HoI4TE7MQJo/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=87Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=87Pete Snyder, CEO of Disruptor Capitol, has an interesting take on the efficacy of social media in the GOP presidential primary today versus the tremendous social media success reaped by candidate Obama in 2008. Money quote: "Social Media Alone Doesn't Save. Social media works only if it's supported by the proper infrastructure. (That's why Obama was so successful. It wasn't social for social's sake but to drive an action.) Gingrich was infatuated with "running a different kind of campaign" and said that "we may not do any TV advertising. Only social media." Fact is, that's not particularly innovative. He maintained a Facebook page and a Twitter feed, but there was no infrastructure to capture information by his campaign and no call to action. All of the leading candidates used social and mobile. But in 2012, those approaches - "revolutionary" just a cycle ago - were so 2008. Though social media is vital for campaigns, it's no longer a differentiator."http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/cdt8RyCepPw/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=85Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=85A digital land rush is underway as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) prepares to open the way to create new realms of Web addresses and domains on Thursday. Will this force companies and high-profile individuals to preempt digital assassins by buying up addresses they don't need?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/N16d2eF0ycM/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=82Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=82The authors of the new book Digital Assassination: Protecting Your Reputation, Brand or Business Against Online Attacks, St. Martin's Press --- Richard Torrenzano and Mark Davis --- are spotlighting three major Digital Assassination trends for 2012. Digital Assassination begins as a willful act by someone who wishes to do harm through the Internet. It unfolds as a deliberate campaign to spread harmful lies the assassin has concocted or as attempt to take a fact grossly out of context or embellish it, making an ordinary shortcoming seem ghastly. The trends are based on lessons from the top ten digital attacks of 2011, also announced today. Click Here for the Top Three Digital Assassination Trends for 2012 and the Top Ten Digital Assassinations of 2011http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/zHycEppfeqI/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=81Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=81-- Four Easy Ways to Protect Online Reputation in the New Year -- We've all made the New Year's resolutions -- usually more than once -- to eat healthier, exercise more and take better care of ourselves. But have you made the resolution to take care of yourself...online? In the digital age everyone needs to take control of their online reputation. And don't think avoiding social media is the answer. Being absent often makes it worse -- you can then be defined by just a few negative posts. Here are four things you can do to stay savvy in the New Year. And trust us it's easier than putting down the cheeseburger and picking up the dumbbells! 1. See What's Out There: Find out what is being said about you or your business. Google yourself! 2. Stay in the Know: Instantly know when your name is mentioned online. Set up Google alerts for your name, product or brand. 3. Change What You Can: Didn't know your Facebook photos were visible to anyone who searches your name? Thought all your Tweets were private? Review your privacy controls on all your social media profiles, so you are in control of who sees what. 4. Bury the Bad: It's impossible to remove unflattering information other's post about you...but don't give up hope. Post positive or neutral content about yourself anywhere you can to drive those pesky posts to bottom of your search results.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/M3dAcIpMdgw/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=80Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=80The media is focused on the potential financial fallout of the compromise of credit card and financial records by the penetration of Stratfor. Whenever security is compromised, however, there is sure to be enormous reputational fallout as well. Already, Anonymous is promising to divulge personal information about victims who speak up on behalf of the company. With its website shut down, Stratfor's Facebook page announced: "It's come to our attention that our members who are speaking out in support of us on Facebook may be being targeted for doing so and are at risk of having sensitive information repeatedly published on other websites. So, in order to protect yourselves, we recommend taking security precautions when speaking out on Facebook or abstaining from it altogether." Meanwhile, Anonymous promises more attacks are in the works.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/TFpLBkL_QD0/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=79Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=79A woman and child in Sandy were held captive for days before the woman was able to go onto Facebook to ask for help, according to police documents. Sandy police on Saturday arrested Troy Critchfield, 33, on suspicion of kidnapping, sodomy, child abuse and animal cruelty. According to documents filed with the Salt Lake County jail, when Sandy police arrived at the home, the woman said Critchfield had held her and her son for four or five days, that Critchfield had beaten, choked and sodomized her and had "thrown" her 17-month-old son. Critchfield also hadn't fed the dog in five days, the woman said. Critchfield had taken the woman's cell phone, but about 4:30 p.m. Saturday she was able to sneak into a closet and post a request for help on Facebook, documents say. The note also said she and her son would be dead by morning. Court documents show Critchfield and the woman have a son together. Critchfield was convicted in 2010 of a felony-level assault against the woman. In February of this year a judge ordered him to serve 120 days in jail and three years probation. He is being held in the Salt Lake County jail without bail. -The Salt Lake Tribunehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/v02N0dvfAOI/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=84Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=84Anonymous is now avenging the shut down of Occupy sites by going after individual police officers by exposing their personal information.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/WQMuByTYwkc/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=77Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=77A pro-Democratic SuperPac has Google bombed Newt. Click on NewtGingrich.com, and you will be sent to a Tiffany's ad, Freddie Mac home page or travel agencies specializing in Greek Cruises. Incredibly, Texas Governor Rick Perry has also overlooked locking up his dotcom URL. One would have thought - given the prominence of another Google bomb that has linked another presidential candidate, Rick Santorum, to a scatological reference since 2003 - that locking up one's digital real estate in all reasonable permutations to prevent Digital Assassination would, by now, be Campaign 101.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/G-71eK04AEQ/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=78Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=78Blogger Matt Scherer urged leaders at FEDEX and the Air Education Training Center to pick up a copy of Digital Assassination: Protecting Your Reputation, Brand, or Business Against Online Attacks to help combat their respective viral crisis. Organizations should change their viral response time - Matt Scherer, MySanAntonio.comhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/05Ho4psoLaI/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=83Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=83The Anonymous threat to shut down the Iowa caucus should be taken seriously. Electronic balloting can be easily manipulated by code injection techniques. When the District of Columbia, as a test, invited hackers to try to crack its online voting system, a professor and his class at the University of Michigan altered the system to make it play "the Victors," the school's fight song. Even if the process is safeguarded, in a close election just the suspicion of hacking will always haunt the results. The best solution is to go back to paper ballots, take several days to count them, and condition ourselves to expect the results to be announced 48 hours later. Our need for the instant gratification of seeing who won and who lost might be the undoing of our democracy.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/EzqrbqrDgso/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=75Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=75After dailynewbloginternational posted a pathetically bogus news release claiming the Jon Bon Jovi died of a heart attack the Twittersphere kicked the rumor of his death into over drive. The story was tweeted and retweeted until it took on a life of its own. But don't worry fans, the New Jersey icon is still 'livin' on a prayer' and the photo he posted on his Facebook site yesterday evening proves it. He holds up a sign in the photo saying "Heaven looks a lot like New Jersey." He has a good sense of humor! He may be laughing, but this is frightening. Someone you've never met -- and have never heard of -- can easily and quickly digital assassinate you regardless of who you are. Read more: Jon Bon Jovi Victim of Online Death Hoax - ABC Newshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/rT2T-QRGKKo/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=76Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=76If I search for something online, and you search for the same thing, we may get very different results. Eli Pariser on TED explains why "there is no standard Google anymore" in a brilliant TED talk, Beware the Filter Bubbles.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/pFjFkFLuFVk/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=74Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=74Identity theft can thrust a victim onto unfamiliar terrain full of unheard of credit companies, with potential new hazards. This piece by David Lazarus explains how one woman used a "credit freeze" to stop the damage.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/m6tZKVjY5TE/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=73Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=73Good primer from Jennifer Rubin on the differences between SOPA and PIPA, and the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act (the Open Act), two very different approaches to dealing with copyright infringement on the Internet. The first two would grant a government agency the unlimited authority to shut down websites without judicial oversight. The second, sponsored by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), OPEN, addresses legitimate concerns about SOPA/PIPA to "focus more specifically on the real problem without knocking down robust, protected speech in an indiscriminate fashion."http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/2L6qzSx7PVA/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=72Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=72Making a mistake in common with Rep. Anthony Weiner, Charlie Sheen accidentally sent a tweet to Justin Bieber with Sheen's phone number, hitting "Update" instead of "Direct Message." Imagine. A social media incident in which Sheen comes out better than a congressman!http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/zwLeTOmrYkA/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=71Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=71Regardless of what you think of Newt Gingrich, we feel compelled to come to his defense over a New York Times piece ridiculing his warnings about the effects of an electromagnetic pulse over the United States. We've spoken with recent, high-level former national security officials who say that an EMP blast would take out the very large transformers that regulate our grid. It would take months to make new ones. And they would have to be shipped across the ocean from Germany. Meanwhile, the Middle Ages would be making a return engagement across North America. True, this is a somewhat improbable event. Given what is at stake, however, doesn't it make sense to eliminate this threat by stockpiling a few extra transformers in Faraday cages?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/ugj6ndxv8b8/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=70Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=70In Digital Assassination, we quote a cyber expert who says that every effort at "air-gapping" - the practice of keeping computers clean by isolating them from the Internet - is doomed to fail because every computer comes complete with a parasite called a human. And humans have an irrepressible desire to network. Now The Washington Post reports that a virus made its way into some of the most sensitive classified systems because an unknown U.S. soldier, probably in Afghanistan, stuck an infected thumb drive into a laptop. Takeaways: Air-gapping is at best a stopgap measure. And beware of thumb drives. Never, ever just pick one up and use it. Bad guys have been known to dump them next to car doors in parking lots so you will look down and imagine that you might have dropped it.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/d4dtZvKfRQ0/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=69Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=69Stealing a page from the Yes Men's play book -- who describe themselves as 'A genderless, loose-knit association of some 300 impostors worldwide' -- an impostor issued a news release late last night claiming the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is withdrawing their support for President Obama. The real SEIU seems to have cleared up the digital attack within 90 minutes before the news release did any serious damage. It seems like SEIU heard about our concept of a "digital day" -- where irreversible damage can take hold in just a few hours if left unaddressed. Read the whole story and news release at TalkingPointsMemo.com: Fake Press Release Claims SEIU Withdrew Endorsement Of Obamahttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/Y1Ar4GNpzjI/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=67Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=67It seems even the creator of Facebook isn't safe from prying eyes or being fried. A security loophole in Facebook's coding allowed users to view a few of Mark Zuckerberg's photos. Luckily for Zuck, the worst of it was a photo of him holding a dead chicken ready to be cooked. Perhaps the King of social media has set the perfect example for the rest of us -- don't put anything online you wouldn't show your grandmother! Read more in the New York Post's story: Zuckerberg's private pictures leaked after security breached on Facebookhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/GyKGkHKX3Ro/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=68Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=68NYPD recently created a Facebook unit to catch perps who brag about their exploits. You would think, then, that police understand the rules of social media transparency. And yet when NPYD testify against defendants in court, they are sure to be asked about ugly - some say racially tinged comments - made on a police Facebook page. Read the New York Times piece On Facebook, N.Y.C. Police Officers Maligned West Indian Paradegoershttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/CRcWyuxTviU/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=66Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=66Think your personal information is safe on your smartphones? Think again... An Android app developer posted a disturbing YouTube video on Wednesday proving that every keystroke made on your smartphone is recorded. The software company behind this flagrant invasion of privacy -- Carrier IQ -- claims they record this information to inform cell providers when you are having a problem. But why can't you turn this feature off? From NewsCorp, to Facebook, to celebrity hackers, this is just another in the long line of privacy assaults that have taken place in the past few months. Take a look at our other posts on the topic and stay savvy! More Facebook Follies?, Facebook-FTC Deal: Clean Up Before the IPO!, Scarlett Johansson Hacker: How He Did It Read ABC News article on Carrier IQ's troubles.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/MIkk7wQNro0/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=64Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=64Eye-opening quote in today's Washington Post from surveillance technology entrepreneur Jerry Lucas: "The IRS loves to find people filing zero income on their tax returns with photos of Ferraris on their Facebook pages."http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/WT7XvtZE_GA/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=65Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=65Buried in another insightful Wall Street Journal piece on Facebook's privacy travails, The Journal today reports: Still, some Facebook users doubt the settlement will change Facebook's behavior. "How can it possibly result in a change?" said Steven Greer, a New York who runs an online health-care information service. "The very fundamental business model of Facebook is to collect information about you and use it to sell ads." Mr. Greer said he deleted his Facebook page a few weeks ago when the company asked him for his cellphone number to verify his account, because he doesn't trust it with his data. Our guess is that Facebook, as it approaches its IPO, is one or two scandals away from a mass exodus. Read more of The Wall Street Journal's Facebook 'Unfair' on Privacyhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/U2ThPwK3nlE/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=63Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=63Gov. Sam Brownback, thanks to the overly aggressive tactics of his office against an 18-year-old constituent and her rude but legal tweet, is the latest politician to learn the power of the Streisand Effect. How do you think he should have handled this situation? Photo credit Charlie Riedel, Associated Press / November 28, 2011http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/UDA_UDd4ryI/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=62Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=62INTERVIEW WITH MARIAN MERRITT - Part Three Marian Merrit writes a blog as Norton's Internet Safety Advocate about issues impacting the online security and safety of kids and families. She speaks here with Digital Assassination's co-authors, Mark Davis and Richard Torrenzano. For more information on these and other issues please visit Ask Marian. Click Here for Part Three To read part one of this interview posted on Monday, November 7 click HERE To read part two of this interview posted on Monday, November 14 click HEREhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/wNZr8-6FBIc/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=59Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=59Huff-Po Tech reports: "Across the U.S. and beyond, inmates are using social networks and the growing numbers of smartphones smuggled into prisons and jails to harass their victims or accusers and intimidate witnesses." Prison Facebook Use Leads To Further Victimizationhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/LXQ2QHfJio0/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=58Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=58USA Today Tech has a clear layout of how Facebook works . . . and follows you like a friendly dog or a stalker, depending on your point of view. Take a look at this article "Facebook tracking is under scrutiny" and the great interactive that accompanies it.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/EYAHzbfZ4d8/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=57Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=57INTERVIEW WITH MARIAN MERRITT - Part Two Marian Merrit writes a blog as Norton's Internet Safety Advocate about issues impacting the online security and safety of kids and families. She speaks here with Digital Assassination's co-authors, Mark Davis and Richard Torrenzano. For more information on these and other issues please visit Ask Marian. Click Here for Part Two To read part one of this interview posted on Monday, November 7 click HEREhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/qbq9r4lW9YE/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=56Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=56The New York Times reports that a federal judge is requiring Twitter to turn over information about three people being investigated by the Justice Department in the WikiLeaks case, including a member of the Icelandic Parliament. "The judge said that because Twitter users 'voluntarily' turned over the Internet protocol addresses when they signed up for an account, they relinquished an expectation of privacy."http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/JG4YxAGSohk/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=55Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=55As Facebook prepares for an IPO, it agrees to 20 years of privacy audits by the Federal Trade Commission. The privacy audits and deal prohibit Facebook from making public privately shared information, unless Facebook gets express permission. Google had reached a similar deal with the FTC in March. Our perspective: The FTC is the best agency for tech companies to deal with. It is more cooperative than the FCC, and not nearly as heavy handed.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/4XHT0xz6HlA/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=54Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=54The American Library Association's Booklist reviews Digital Assassination: This book shows how anyone can be a target of online identity attacks, and readers will find witty writing and expert advice on how to guard against and respond to such attacks. Loaded with interesting anecdotes on how the Internet, media, and other technologies are used by unscrupulous people to disparage an individual's or company's reputation, the book demonstrates how these attacks have become more prevalent and widespread, thanks to the Internet age. From the character assassination that ensued from a feud between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, to the leaking of private information on current celebrities, the book identifies "seven swords" of digital assassination that are common and timeless strategies for character attacks. Just as easily as a "Silent Slasher" slandered John Seigenthaler in a Wikipedia hoax, others engage in "Clandestine Combat" and "Jihad by Proxy." Torrenzano and Davis share key defensive strategies applicable to businesses and individuals. These "seven shields" show how to build defenses against online attacks and how to maintain a positive image or brand on popular technology platforms like Facebook and Twitter. - Cindy Kryszak Booklist, November 15, 2011 Issuehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/-QK6mB36Clg/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=53Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=53INTERVIEW WITH MARIAN MERRITT - Part One Marian Merrit writes a blog as Norton's Internet Safety Advocate about issues impacting the online security and safety of kids and families. She speaks here with Digital Assassination's co-authors, Mark Davis and Richard Torrenzano. For more information on these and other issues please visit Ask Marian. Click Here for Part Onehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/Z7dxmDsEZ4s/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=52Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=52Take a look at this interesting infographic from Mashable on protecting your online reputation. Protecting Your Online Reputation: 4 Things You Need to Know [INFOGRAPHIC]http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/zlHO8IE0W9Q/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=51Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=51Kumasi Aaron5NEWS ReporterFull Storyhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/Yv3q3CW-2Ko/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=49Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=49A new survey from Microsoft Research and academia found that 55 percent of parents of 12-year-olds report that their kids have Facebook accounts, even though Facebook's Terms of Service require one to be 13 to sign up. 76 percent of these parents assisted their child in creating the account.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/h_yu6V9gTcs/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=48Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=48Defense News reports that: "Cyber hackers 'achieved all steps required to command' a NASA satellite, which put the satellite at risk of being destroyed or damaged, according to a draft report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/prSp8BXOYVg/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=47Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=47In Digital Assassination, we wrote that when we converse with our computers, we run the risk of not realizing that they are just repeating all the junk on the Internet. Now Slacktory puts our notion to the test.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/CJdoOvx1y3s/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=46Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=46"...Britain's largest police force is operating covert surveillance technology that can masquerade as a mobile phone network, transmitting a signal that allows authorities to shut off phones remotely, intercept communications and gather data about thousands of users in a targeted area."http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/2j_FPXXN58o/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=45Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=45Co-Author Richard Torrenzano discusses his latest book "Digital Assassination: Protecting Your Reputation, Brand or Business Against Online Attacks" on the United Nations South-South News programClick Image to Play Full Interviewhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/VB4jIiOWBa0/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=44Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=44Digital Assassination: New Book Reveals Seven Ways You Can Be Harmed at the Speed of a Twitter PostBrian Pittman's spotlight on: Richard Torrenzano, Mark Davis, Co-Authors, "Digital Assassination: Protecting Your Reputation, Brand or Business Against Online Attacks" "If you're a CEO or celebrity, entrepreneur, politician, journalist or even parent - there is a risk today of digital assassination," says Richard Torrenzano, who helms NYC's The Torrenzano Group and has managed some of the most visible global corporate crises of our lifetime. "We've seen online attacks ruin the lives of teenagers and end in suicides, and we've seen them hurt businesses and brands - like what happened to Sony PlayStation, or even to banks or celebrities that have been hacked," he says. "Regardless of who you are, if you have a name, and you have a brand to protect, this is one of the most important issues facing you today." "According to the black and white hats we interviewed about this, the danger will only increase 50-100 fold in the next two to five year - thanks in large part to the open architecture of the Internet," adds co-author of the new St. Martin's Press title and former White House speechwriter Mark Davis, who is also the senior director of DC-based White House Writers Group. Read the full interview HEREhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/YetVGhuWJH8/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=43Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=43Happened this very day: A U.S. executive on a business trip to PRC sends emails to his colleagues from his Blackberry, with attached documents on important client business. The contents, though private, are not especially sensitive. The executive, however, once held important positions in national security, with continuing work in defense-related sectors - a source of delay in obtaining a visa for a perfectly normal business trip. For this reason, he did not take a laptop with him to China. After a few days, the emails he sent to his colleagues from China were deleted out of their servers on the East Coast.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/8VLid8giWOU/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=42Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=42We all know that many of the images we see on the Internet are manipulated. This image, appearing almost immediately after the acquittal of Casey Anthony, demonstrates how hard it is to discount what we see - no matter the truth.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/j_Hw-Cbyvko/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=39Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=39New Book: 'Digital Assassination: Protecting Your Reputation, Brand or Business Against Online Attacks' Released TodayNEW YORK "In the future, which is now, everyone will have 15 minutes of shame."This is one of many arresting statements from Digital Assassination: Protecting Your Reputation, Brand or Business Against Online Attacks released today by St. Martin's Press. Co-authors Richard Torrenzano and Mark Davis, leading advisors to Fortune 500 companies and public figures, predict what the end of privacy will mean for civilization - and provide a course of action to turn the tables on your would-be assassins. Click here for the full news releasehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/eB-b3GDOH7E/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=41Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=41It's also called the Invisible Web or Dark Web - the parts of the Internet that are not indexed by standard search engines. Like an iceberg, this submersed, unseen part of the Web is many times more massive than what can be seen. For those adept at doing background checks, the Deep Web can accessed. One of the most common Deep Web activities is to PRC someone - a public record check for arrest, traffic and divorce records, bankruptcies, liens, and the like. A story in The Village Voice reports that a blog of an ex-Scientologist asserts that the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who ridiculed that organization on their show, were PRCed. This SOP for digital opposition research.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/DHls4w6zL1c/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=38Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=38James Strock, Author, Speaker on Transformational Leadership, and CEO of Serve to Lead comments: ...Richard Torrenzano and Mark Davis are highly respected communications professionals. They have explored the further reaches of the Internet and returned with a Baedeker for our time: Digital Assassination: Protecting Your Reputation, Brand, or Business Against Online Attacks... ...Digital Assassination identifies a series of "swords" which you may encounter in your social media journey. The authors demonstrate that history can provide a lot of instruction, at least for perspective. They also recognize that there are unique aspects of the Digital Age. They offer a credo: In a digital world, age needs to approach technology with greater skill. Youth needs to approach technology with greater wisdom. Torrenzano and Davis have put together a Baedeker with a difference. Armed with their guide, you can emerge unbowed - and, hopefully, unscathed - from the risk of digital assassination. Even more importantly, you will be better equipped to craft your own identify, in ways both apparent and profound. Digital Assassination is a must-read for anyone navigating today's social media seas. To read the full review click HEREhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/RR6f-cicNjQ/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=37Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=37The New York Jounal of Books, a leading book review panel consisting of bestselling and award-winning authors, journalists, experienced publishing executives and tenured academics comments: Be afraid. Be very afraid. Because where or not you use the Internet, you do have a digital reputation to protect, and you had better pay attention to it. Those who do use the Internet have a bigger stake in the game, but even if you've never been "online," never signed on to an electronic mail account, selected a site with a web browser, or even owned a computer, you still have a digital reputation... ...At the close of Digital Assassination, Mr. Torrenzano and Mr. Davis explain how the best defense is a good offense in "The Seven Shields of Digital Assassination." They address each of the "seven swords" from the previous chapters. From being "Internet Savvy" to completing an honest "self-inventory," to "looking at yourself from the point of view of a digital assassin" and creating a "new and improved" image on the web, the authors tell us how to survive and if necessary, to recover. Also included is a game plan that can be personalized as a strategic and tactical approach. ...Digital Assassination is a comprehensive, knowledgeable exploration for anyone who wants, or needs, to know more about how best to survive in the digital universe.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/cFQt3xaZApY/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=36Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=36The last presidential election saw a raft of phony campaign sites put up for Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson and Rudy Guiliani that appeared legit at first glance, but repelled visitors with over-the-top language. This year, not waiting to be stung, presidential hopefuls are buying up every conceivable URL of their name - good, bad and ugly. Or are their opponents buying them? Lesson Learned: Invest a little in digital real estate. Take a look at this Washington Post article on the subject.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/ohJkAF69GmA/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=35Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=35How did Christopher Chaney, a 35-year-old unemployed hacker in Jacksonsville, Florida, manage to worm into the devices of more than 50 entertainment figures - including Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis and Christina Aguilera? This wasn't a hard hack. Chaney simply deduced passwords by looking for clues in the names of friends, kids, pets and other personal information gleaned from celebrity magazines, websites and Twitter and Facebook posts, and then relied on password recovery features of Yahoo!, Gmail and Apple. He then set up an automatic forward of the celebrity's emails to himself - a program that would continue to work even if the celebs should get security conscious and upgrade their passwords. Pretty nifty, huh! Lesson Learned: Passwords should also be passcodes - with numbers, letters and ASCII code. And don't use the names of your dog, cat or pet iguana.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/6ononV7v0-Y/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=34Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=34The Federal Bureau of Investigations has made arrests in the celebrity phone-hacking scandal that exposed - literally - star after star. Lesson Learned: Whether you are a celebrity or not, digital nude photos are like pollen, they just want to float everywhere.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/AKj3x9GEwuk/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=31Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=31Michael Jones, Chief Operating Office, Public Broadcasting System (PBS) comments: Digital Assassination is incredibly timely. It unveils Internet attacks by invisible destructive villains, while offering actionable solutions to defend personal reputations and corporate brands.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/_XPLMw2KKRw/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=30Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=30Digital Assassination co-author, Mark Davis speaks with "First Post" columnist Uttara Choudhury about the upcoming book and threat of digital attacks. You claim that "In the future, which is now, everyone will have 15 minutes of shame." Can you expand on your statement? Richard Torrenzano, my co-author and I believe we are already in a full-blown digital crisis in which anyone can be subjected to a reputational attack that is global, instant and forever. Some examples: A political candidate has a campaign website put up that looks real, only it is seeded with strange and inflammatory statements that the candidate would never make. The owner of a hotel is unfairly accused on a review site of hosting prostitutes. A teen-age girl commits suicide after being taunted by a middle-aged woman digitally posing as a teen-age boy. A woman who has appeared on popular television shows is portrayed in a lascivious way on an online dating site, complete with her home address and phone number. The 'shame,' of course, really belongs to the digital assassins who perpetrate these attacks. At the rate things are going, this will likely happen to everyone at one time or another. Hence, our 15 minutes. Click here for the full article:Digital Assassination: How to defend yourself against online smearhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/YaobOA48-8w/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=29Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=29More evidence, if it was needed, of the importance of a clean profile: Andrew Sullivan is reporting a new survey that shows that 69 percent of employers have rejected an applicant based on they've found out about them on Google. Almost half start Googling just after receiving the application. The most common rejection was not drinking or drugs, but stretching one's qualifications.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/iD3gCUQEYj4/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=28Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=28Facebook is now facing a likely federal investigation following the revelation that its cookies can track users Web surfing after they logged out of the world's most popular social networking site. The worst outcome of such an investigation would be onerous legislation that would stifle innovation. The call for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate, however, is a positive sign for people who care about privacy and innovation. While the FCC is notorious for seeking to employ powers it does not statutorily possess, the FTC has a long record of judicious use of its power. Regulation of some sort is inevitable in the privacy arena. Best it be a one-stop shop at the FTC.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/nLkLYpVk-rk/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=27Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=27Facebook is almost certainly telling the truth when it says it made an inadvertent mistake when it placed cookies on our machines that can track where we go on the Web by our unique identifier. Facebook is also probably telling the truth when it says that has not stored or used this information. The fact remains, as we say in our book, what can be done, will be done. The current privacy paradigm is simply not sustainable.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/SfiHHLJ4VNw/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=26Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=26It is not enough to teach your children to avoid explicit "sexting." Make sure that they are not storing any images of themselves that, in the eyes of a pedophile, would be worthy of posting and sharing. There are now legions of girls, many in what they considered innocuous poses at the beach or the swimming pool, who have had their purloined images posted on a "Jailbait" section of a popular message board. Gawker dug into one well-documented story, now three years old, about a 14-year-old Miami girl whose image was hacked, and displayed on porn sites favored by pedophiles. A Google search for her name now has 356,000 results. "I spent the whole summer trying to take down all the pictures, but it was virtually impossible to track down who hacked me," she told an online site. Money quote from Gawker: "They're not even getting my pictures from Photobucket anymore," she told The Status. "They're getting them through my Facebooks. I can't even have my real name. I've had like six Facebooks now." All the more reason why children need to know how to use their Facebook privacy settings.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/Tk8Flf-Wbqw/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=25Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=25Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum is justifiably upset by a Google bomb that links searches for his name to something too disgusting to repeat here. In demanding that Google take it down, however, Santorum does not seem to understand that all the responsibility - and liability - rests with the webmaster, not the search engine - in a law that passed when he was a member of the Senate. (Anybody out there know how Senator Santorum voted on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act?) Santorum, however, does strike at a point. "I suspect if something was up there like that about Joe Biden, they'd get rid of it," he said. In fact, something was 'up there' about First Lady Michelle Obama, a truly offensive image. Google did act against one site carrying that image, citing malware concerns, and placed an ad explaining its stance. Technology companies will need to remain utterly consistent in how they apply these rules - and clear to the public how they operate. Politicians need to understand the need to play by the rules they themselves have passed.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/jCa2s0OFuPA/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=24Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=24"If these consumers can bring down a regime in Egypt in 17 days, they probably can bring down a company like ours in nanoseconds." Wise words from Unilever CEO Paul Polman at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting this week. Watch the CGI 2011 Sustainable Consumption: Redefining Business As Usualhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/WH6Gqr63YEM/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=23Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=23In our book, we chronicle the trouble that can occur when an attractive and somewhat familiar looking wanna-be friend on Facebook may, in fact, not be a real person - or at least the person they say they are. Jonathan Mann captures our angst in music and animation.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/j9PygPYFR4U/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=19Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=19--Don Tapscott, bestselling author, most recently Grown Up Digital and Macrowikinomics comments: The Net is a reflection of everything good and bad in society, and as such has a dark side. Everyone and every organization needs to manage their reputation and protect themselves when they go online. That's the critical message of Digital Assassination.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/-Af0v1t8Yws/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=20Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=20A New York Times article this morning describes in graphic detail how social media sites are replacing the small town coffee shop as the venue for gossip - but with an anonymous freedom to be vicious. One mother of two was falsely described as "a methed-out" "freak" and worse.In Digital Assassination, we report on a related phenomena - how politically active elites in rural counties are setting up what look like public-spirited Web sites that purport to sponsor discussions on local issues, when in fact they exist to slip verbal knives in the ribs of political rivals.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/rtXsGF53qAA/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=18Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=18We've seen many examples of people fired for dissing their employers on Facebook and other sites. A counter trend is brewing, however, in which some critical social media speech is protected. An employee of a non-profit in Buffalo, New York, posted Facebook page comments that a co-worker had made about other employees not being supportive. Four other co-workers commented on working conditions, some with profanity. All were fired . . . And then reinstated with back pay by the National Labor Relations Board, which held that discussions about the terms and conditions of their employment were protected. Michelle Singletary of The Washington Post reports that the NLRB is seeing more of these kinds of cases. It is sure to muddy these already muddy waters.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/MPEWmQJ08n8/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=16Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=16--General Michael Hayden, most recent Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and longtime head of the super-secret, ultra-high technology National Security Agency comments: Torrenzano and Davis blend a compelling narrative, killer anecdotes and page-turning prose into a sober and worrying account of what happens when the darker side of human nature harnesses the connectedness and anonymity of today's web. Their Digital Assassination should be in the hands of anyone who has a good name -- or a good business -- to protect.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/BEFE6U5LvC0/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=10Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=10--Dick Grasso, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, New York Stock Exchange, comments:Digital Assassination provides a compass --as well as a road map-- for navigating the potholes, pitfalls and landmines of our new digital world. It is a must read for every CEO and top executive.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/XWIEMKfXG1c/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=7Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=7Publishers Weekly, an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at the publishing industry, reviews the upcoming book Digital Assassianation:There are no shortage of ways that a malicious person can - with no great expense or trouble to himself - use the Internet to assassinate character, say strategic communications expert Torrenzano and consultant Davis...The book's great strengths are its exhaustive research and its discussion of how principles of human behavior, not technology, are the driving factors behind this dark side of the Internet...The extent of their research and suggestions for blunting attacks...make for a compelling read.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/kBVZYQ-vhOc/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=15Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=15--Charlene Li, author of the best-seller and visionary book "Groundswell" and "Open Leadership," comments:Do you have a good reputation? Then be sure to protect it by reading Digital Assassination where the authors lay out seven ways you and your company can be irreparably harmed at the speed of a Twitter post. Knowledge is power, so pay heed to the keen and timely advice here.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/eN_391CRwNI/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=11Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=11--Peter Robinson, leading American author, Founder of Ricochet.com, former Presidential speech writer and host of the online Uncommon Knowledge comments:Sticks and stones may break your bones, but in the digital age names will ruin your reputation, cost you jobs and contracts, and destroy your career. Digital Assassination tells you just how to defend yourself. Indispensable -- and completely engrossing.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/TBusgq3YKdk/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=14Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=14Publishers Weekly named Digital Assassination: Protecting Your Reputation, Brand or Business Against Online Attacks by Richard Torrenzano and Mark Davis was named as one of the top ten books in business to watch in the fall of 2011.The book will be published by St. Martin's Press in October. Publishers Weekly is the main trade press in the publishing and bookselling industry.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalAssassinationBook/~3/loToHYG0ctQ/blog-detail.phphttp://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=12Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500http://www.digitalassassinationbook.com/blog-detail.php?news=12