An Hilven: May 2010 Archives

From now on, you can protect your Google searches from eavesdropping as Google enabled HTTPS on its search engine.

A few notes on their blog indicate that it is still a 'beta' option:

- only the web search is SSL encrypted (image or map searches, for example, are not)

- slightly slower loading times to set up encryption

- your data and searches are not hidden from Google (if you read between the lines, that means that if law enforcement requests information about your search behavior, Google can still provide it) only from others that might eavesdrop on your connections

Kaspersky is organizing the IT Security for the Next Generation conference later this year, and is calling all students of European universities to submit their research papers for a contest to participate in the conference and have a chance to present their paper for a large audience. Students from any European university can participate, free of charge, by writing a research paper about one of these topics:

Technical nomination

- Trends in Anti-Spam Development – Techniques, Methods in the “Spam Arms Race” and new Innovations

- Dangers of an increasingly Networked World

- 'In the Cloud' Security

- Future Technologies for Detecting and Combating Malware (e.g. artificial intelligence, fuzzy systems, p2p networks)

Social, economic and legal nomination

- Emerging Threats (e.g. social network security, embedded systems security, mobile security, online banking security)

- Challenges and Opportunities for IT-Security Companies within the next 10 years

- Impact of technologies on Data Protection, Copy and Intellectual Property Rights and Jurisdiction

- Education in IT Security - Trends and Questions

More info here.