Omnia Securitas ← Promoting Infosec Knowledge Sharing

Ransomware – The renewed quest to steal data and profit from you.

Sep

4

2015

XXI century thiefs, stalkers of your information. Organized crime, always looking to profit quickly at expense of somebody else. Those who witnessed the very early stages of personal computing, may remember that the term virus was exotic and sometimes misleading. Once i was asked and I've heard anecdotes about people who were afraid of being "contaminated" by a computer virus ...

CyberWarfare – Letters from the FrontLine.

Mar

27

2014

As the term implies, Cyberwarfare is directly related with the general terms and concepts of a conventional war, nowadays using computational resources to analyze, detect, intrude, harm, disable or destroy an enemy´s physical or logical infrastructure. (more…)

The Power of the Community – Crowd Sourcing, Open Source and Social Networking

Nov

22

2012

Some years ago, the classic example of community based software was the SETI Project (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu), where sharing computing resources was the key to analyze and digest in parallel hundreds of thousands of data packets obtained from radio telescopes in SETI's network, to finally find a group of patterns robust enough to sustain them as ...

Cloud Computing: A Clear Sky or a Storm Ahead? Part I

Oct

2

2012

One incumbent concept that has acquired momentum and is present in several IT departments worldwide is Cloud Computing. It promises ubiquity, Software as a Service (SaaS), implementation agility, fault tolerance & load balancing, capacity on demand, easy outsourced maintenance and low costs as the best promising catch. That looks pretty encouraging and attractive at first ...