Month: August 2015

5 Tips on Writing Security Policies

Gabor

Even pure technologists have to write security policies in an enterprise environment. As a subject matter on something, technology experts might be asked to contribute to the Software Development or the Internet Acceptable Use policies.

However this leads to policies that nobody reads. Copy-and-paste texts, dry language and 60-page long documents. Rings a bell, anyone?

In the following post I reveal a few tricks up my sleeves for writing simple, crystal-clear and straightforward security policies.

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Malware Injecting Torrent Mirrors

Gabor

While ISPs in the UK and other countries are blocking file sharing websites such as The Pirate Bay, movie-lovers have different alternatives to circumvent these restrictions. One popular way to overcome the filtering is using mirrors.

Torrent mirrors are essentially reverse proxies, which are forwarding HTTP traffic between the UK and the original sites hosted elsewhere. Data supposed be left intact and the only difference should be the address in the URL bar.

This experiment proves however that 99.7% of the tested BitTorrent mirrors are injecting additional JavaScript into the web browsing traffic. A great share of these scripts serve content with malicious intent such as malware and click-fraud.

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