Governments’ efforts to restrict Internet speech they regard as dangerous have varied greatly. Islamic countries have focused on pornography and some forms of political speech. Some liberal Western democracies, such as the United States, have sought to censor or suppress sexually explicit speech, and others, such as France and Germany, have concentrated on virulent hate speech. It is instructive to consider the concerted efforts of the United States to restrict sexually explicit content and speech in cyberspace by means of command and control legislation. (more…)

Since internet gathered its popularity, information loss through electronic channel have become prevalent. It is easier to exploit internet to collect credential information, mainly personal or corporate information. New services, features, communication media are blended into existing internet services with internet as its information transport platform. New channels are opened as a particular Web site implements a new feature and existing communication systems evolve to bypass previously effective control measures. Bellow are 10 possible information loss that goes trough electronic channel that you must aware of. (more…)

We give a comprehensive overview of information assurance technologies, with a focus on the emerging third generation information assurance technologies and their relation with more established intrusion detection and prevention Information Assurance technologies. (more…)

As society increasingly relies on digitally stored and accessed information, traditional information security technology, policies, management, and practices are found more and more limited in satisfying the security and assurance needs of modern information systems and applications, for several reasons. In general, addressing only the protection of information against unauthorized disclosure, transfer, modification, or destruction, traditional information security cannot deliver the level of information assurance that modern applications require. (more…)

Internal bank threats are those risks that emanate from within the bank or within the network of the bank that could compromise systems or information. External bank threat, on the other hand, are those originating outside of the bank and attempt to access, maliciously, the systems to manipulate, destroy, or render systems and information unusable. Banks are predominantly concerned with (more…)

As the variety and complexity of online banking offerings increase, many offerings are also fast becoming targets for unauthorized activities, which exploit the nature of online banking services and the flaws in the systems that host the applications and platforms used to offer these services. (more…)

Computer must first run BIOS before it can boot to operating system and running your favorite software application. BIOS (Basic Input Output System) is procedural software that is programmed into a ROM (Read Only Memory). In the 80’s and 90’s, BIOS is sometimes referred as CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor). (more…)

The internet is an extraordinary thing that ever happened to us in enhancing our communication, eliminate physical barrier and expand our social and business. Nowadays, it is become a daily routine for us browsing internet, sending and receiving emails, joining social group with same interest, online shopping, and others. We can not imagine doing things with internet 10 years ago. But internet also became the opportunity for others to put our privacy in danger situation. (more…)

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!