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- The ePassport cloning myth never dies
- The ePassport cloning myth never diesMyths are often based on factAll the arguments are correct HOWEVER ...The problem is less with the technology as with the people involved. Convince people that the technology is safe and they will not properly examine the passport or whatever.The benefit of using multiple...
- Tags: Digital signatures, Authentication/Encryption, Digital security, ePassport, passport, digital signature, security
- Discussion threads 2006-12-19
- RFID passports and VeriChip security podcast
- RFID passports and VeriChip security podcasta practical addition George.."But we want to avoid bad RFID implementations like the Dutch passport which according to Mahaffey was extremely simple to break because it had an effective entropy of 30 bits in the encryption key."That was already known about 15 months ago here......
- Tags: Government, Palestine, Roma, Bible, RFID Passport, RFID, Babylon, VeriChip, liberty, passport, security, podcast
- Discussion threads 2006-08-22
- RFID passports and VeriChip security podcast
- I had the opportunity to interview Kevin Mahaffey who is the Director of Development for Flexilis Inc. Kevin and his team of researchers presented a video at Black Hat 2006 illustrating improperly shielded RFID Radio Frequency Identifier passports that can potentially be used to trigger a bomb.It turns out...
- Tags: RFID, passport
- Blog posts 2006-08-21
- First cloned passports, then bombs, and now ATM fraud: Security problems should plague RFID's future
- First, it took hackers barely two weeks to clone the new RFID-based passports. Wrote Wired of the situation:Grunwald says it took him only two weeks to figure out how to clone the passport chip. Most of that time he spent reading the standards for e-passports that are posted on a...
- Tags: passport, RFID
- Blog posts 2006-08-09
- Researchers: E-passports pose security risk
- Researchers: E-passports pose security riskAnd WHO was it that thought......RFID technology was actually a [i]good[/i] idea???You just HAD to know that once Wal*Mart started singing the praises of RFID it was immediately doomed to mediocrity.In a word:Whoops!!Dotso.com techs pointing to this story ...Found numerous channels pointing to similar story in...
- Tags: bar code, encryption, security, e-passport, RFID, passport
- Discussion threads 2006-08-05
- Why does Microsoft Passport suck?
- The Microsoft Passport Network is supposed to be an effortless way to share a single set of logon credentials across multiple sites. Instead, it’s a colossal annoyance. Even Microsoft employees gripe about the inconsistencies and abysmal user experience of Passport.How does Microsoft Passport’s sign-in process suck? Let’s count the ways:It...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Passport
- Blog posts 2006-04-05
- Microsoft patches Hotmail after security warning
- Microsoft patches Hotmail after security warningBut didn't Balmer say the securing the perimeter was the key to security"In May, the company scrambled to close a hole in its Passport identity-management system, which acts as the gatekeeper for the Hotmail system and other of Microsoft's online services."Looks to me like Micorsoft's...
- Tags: passport, Microsoft patches Hotmail, security, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2003-10-15
- Australia Passports Speeding Movement Through Airports and Boosting Security
- With ePassport, Australia Passports is reducing the incidence of identify theft - a crime which costs an estimated $1.1 billion per year. At the same time, they're delivering increased citizen safety and expedited service to the 20 million inhabitants of Australia. With an overriding goal of providing a secure, efficient...
- Tags: Facial Recognition, Unisys Corp., Passport, Security
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- Live Webcast: Mid-Year Report: Malware, Spam and Web Threats in 2008
- What's NOT happening in 2008? The web continues to be a vector for cyber threats. Incidents of spear-phishing continue to dupe users, and botnets are increasing in popularity amongst growing economies across the globe. Complex polymorphic viruses as opposed to the more mundane Trojan horses are getting...
- Tags: Web, Webcast, Sophos Plc., Malware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Channel Management, Security, Marketing
- Webcasts 2008-07-24
- 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison
- Edward "Eddie" Davidson, a notorious e-mail spammer who was sentenced to jail time in April, has escaped from a federal prison camp in Florence, Colorado. Davidson left, also known as the "Spam King, made a run for it when his wife visited him last Sunday and is now officially...
- Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Restitution, Federal Prison Camp, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- iPhone vulnerable to phishing, spamming flaws
- Security researcher Aviv Raff left has discovered a pair of basic design flaws that could turn your iPhone into easy bait for malicious phishing and spamming attacks. According to an advisory from Raff, the iPhone's Mail and Safari applications are susceptible to a URL Spoofing vulnerability which...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Safari, Vulnerability, Spamming, Flaw, Aviv Raff, Phishing, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service
- Using a link analysis algorithm similar to Google PageRank, researchers at the SANS Institute and SRI International have created a new Internet network defense service that completely revamps the way network blacklists are formulated and distributed. The service, called Highly Predictive Blacklisting (.pdf), will be unveiled next...
- Tags: Google PageRank, Attacker, Network, DShield, Highly Predictive Blacklist, Internet, Networking, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Inside the mind - and config - of Terry Childs
- Terry Childs's lawyer, Erin Crane, offered the court some insights into the Childs' motivations in changing SF's network passwords. She will argue today for a reduction in his $5 million bail, perhaps to something closer to the bail set for common murderers ($1 mil.) In her written...
- Tags: Password, Network, Backup, Terry Childs, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Fortify sets off FUD flood
- The Fortify study did not say enterprises must avoid open source because all open source is a security risk. But that's how lazy reporters played it. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Open Source, Security, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Another student hacks another police website
- Oh the fun. Once again, another police website has been hacked by a student, showing that even the police aren't safe from all crimes. This is another link in the long chain of attacks over the years from egotistical teenagers trying to get a kick out of life without sticking...
- Tags: Web Site, Attack, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- McAfee debunks recent vulnerabilities in AV software research, n.runs restates its position
- Several days after blogging about a research conduced by n.runs AG that managed to discover approximately 800 vulnerabilities in antivirus products, McAfee issued a statement basically debunking the number of vulnerabilities found, and providing its own account into the number of vulnerabilities affecting its own products : "A recent...
- Tags: Software, McAfee Inc., Antivirus, Vulnerability, Vendor, Flaw, N.Runs, Dancho, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- News to know: Yahoo; VMware; Apple; DNS vulnerability
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug Dancho Danchev: Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, DNS, Yahoo! Inc., Vulnerability, Dana Blankenhorn, Health Care, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., App Store, Banking, Vertical Industries, Domain Names, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Human Resources
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design flaws
- In a paper entitled "Analyzing Web sites for user-visible security design flaws" to be published at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security meeting at Carnegie Mellon University July 25, Atul Prakash and two of his doctoral students examined 214 financial institutions in 2006, finding that over 75% of all...
- Tags: Bank, Online Banking, Flaw, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Element Browser (zip)
- Element Browser is a full featured, fast and Web standards compliant Web browser for the Microsoft Windows platform. It features a intuitive, modern ribbon interface with tools that are designed to simplify every day browsing tasks. Element Browser has been designed from the ground up to be one of the...
- Tags: Web Browser, Element Software, Web Browsers, Viruses And Worms, Internet, Security
- Software downloads 2008-07-23
- Vantage Giga (zip)
- Suites large to enterprise organizations. Vantage Giga is a monitoring and reporting software that provides interactive reporting interfaces into key functions of Internet and network usage within organizations. Vantage can import and translate different types of log files, providing powerful, yet easy to use, drilldown analysis capabilities with a comprehensive...
- Tags: Analysis, Organization, WebSpy, Vantage Giga, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-07-23
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