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Samoa moves to the other side of the world – and misses a day!

30

Dec

2011

Regular readers of Naked Security will know that I have some strong feelings about timestamps in logfiles. In particular, the ambiguities created by logfiles based on local time – which is subject to local timezone regulations and changes – can work against your security interests. Here’s one reason why: “..Don’t let year-ends, timezones, daylight saving […]

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London’s Metropolitan police re-invest in fighting cybercrime

08

Aug

2011

UK broadsheet The Guardian reported recently that London’s Metropolitan Police Service, colloquially known as The Met, has quadrupled the size of its cybercrime unit in the last two months. This should make happy reading for readers of this site. Last year, after news that funding for fighting cybercrime in the UK had been cut significantly, […]

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The more things change, the more they stay the same

06

Jul

2011

It's something of a truism, that 'old viruses never die', and that certainly seems to be the case for some of the older, more widespread, email worms. In this interview (http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041129/news_lz1b29five.html) back in 2004, I talked about an email worm called "Win32/Zafi.b" which, at the time, had recently been spreading on a global scale. However, […]

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