Regjeringen har nedsatt et utvalg som skal se på regelverk og organisering innenfor IKT-sikkerhet. Utvalget skal vurdere hvorvidt eksisterende regelverk på IKT-sikkerhetsområdet er godt nok, og om det ivaretar de nye digitale samfunnsutfordringene.
Om ikke hele verden arrangerer nasjonal sikkerhetsmåned nå i oktober (selv om de burde det), så er det mange lang som gjør det – herunder Norge som har vært en aktiv bidragsyter siden 2011. Det startet i USA i 2004, og nå er det blitt en viktig og anerkjent markering hvert år i oktober. I Norge … Read more
Datasikkerhet er i skuddet for tiden, både nasjonalt og internasjonalt. Media skriver over seg om mer eller mindre spektakulære dataangrep og -skandaler. Sist ut var Dagens Næringsliv som på forsiden av papiravisen skrev: “Facebook kan se meldingene dine” – noe jeg blogget om her. For to dager siden hadde flere media som Aftenposten, NRK, TV2 og Nordlys … Read more
Facebook kan se tekstmeldingene dine. Det skriver Dagens Næringsliv på sin førsteside i dag med bakgrunn i at nye brukervilkår hos Facebook blottlegger din PC og telefon. “Facebook skryter av nye personvernverktøy, men følger deg overalt på nettet og krever tilgang til sms-ene dine”, står det i ingressen til artikkelen som fyller to sider i … Read more
A new year has begun and let’s wish that 2015 will be a year with less cyber crime and data breaches than last year. OK? Well, dream on. Let’s face it; it’s going to get worse. Cyber security has quickly become a huge issue around the world, especially after the Edward Snowden‘s revelations. Let me start … Read more
I’m proud to say that my company Invenia has launched a new product: Ensafer Messenger. It’s a mobile app designed to give you full privacy by using modern encryption to secure your messages. We’ve been working with this for a long time, and we released it on the App Store a few days ago. You … Read more
Are you worried about security on the Internet? You should because a lot has happened this year, and it’s just the beginning according to experts. What about 2015? It’s tough to know what this landscape will look like in a year, but a lot of people are giving their best guesses. I found an interesting … Read more
A new study mentioned in the The Wall Street Journal found that 11% of online display ads and 23% of video ads aren’t actually displayed to real people. It’s estimated that advertisers could lose more than $6 billion globally to ad fraud in 2015. Wow, I didn’t know. Did you? How are they doing this? According to a HubSpot … Read more
Yesterday I wrote the blog post “Wearable Tech: Improving Your Health or Killing Your Privacy?” based on a security report from Symantec. Little did I know that I would write a blog post on another security report from the same company today. The reason is: The world was flooded today with news on “Regin”, a sophisticated … Read more
Your smartphone is already gathering a ton of information about you – everyday. Intentionally or not you are tracking yourself. But that’s nothing compared to what’s about to happen when you join the new wave of wearable technology for tracking even more aspects of your life. Probably also the most personal and sensitive part of you: … Read more