New Chatham House report, Cyberspace and the National Security of the United Kingdom

FaberBrent were at Chatham House last night for the launch of this important new report.

It was comforting to hear Rex Hughes (via web link from the US) state that we need to see a convergence of traditional security and information security for effective defence. Sounds like holistic security to us.

This report provides a general overview of the problem of cybersecurity. The aim of the report is to inform debate and to make the case for a more coherent, comprehensive and anticipatory policy response, both nationally and internationally. more...

Download the paper here

TelTech intros pay-as-you-use lie detector phone service

I wonder if it actually provides any consistent data as voice analysis is only a small component of lie detection. This compounded with the reduced audio quality of a signal bounced over several phone-lines and i wonder how effective it can really be?

TelTech has launched what appears to be the industry's first pay-as-you-use telephone voice analysis (lie detection) service.

The service, appropriately named `LiarCard,' requires users to route a phone call via a US toll-free number, with onward dialling to the required party whose voice is to be analysed for truthfulness and other stress issues. more...

Cybercrime revenues exceeding drug trafficking?

Now this is quite a statement. I wonder when the cybercrime enforcement agencies are going to get the same budget as the DEA?

Testimony from AT&T's Chief Security Officer Edward Amoroso, in which he told a US Senate Commerce Committee that revenues from cybercrime - at $1 trillion annually - are now exceeding those of drug crime, have been confirmed by Finjan, the business Internet security expert.

"Our latest research suggests that, whilst the economic downturn is reducing the income of drug traffickers, cybercriminals are becoming ever more innovative in the ways they extract money from companies and individual," said Yuval Ben Itzhak, Finjan's Chief Technology Officer. more...

Madoff data is exempt from data protection law and can be exported, rules High Court

Public interest.....

Data which is protected by the Data Protection Act can be transferred to the US to help in the investigation of companies run by Bernard Madoff, the High Court has said. The transfer would usually be barred but is justified in this case, the Court said. more...