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TSA site rife with insecurity and conflict of interest: Hey, security breaches, incompetence and corruption. Sounds like government IT. The Post reports: A government Web site designed to help travelers remove their names from aviation watch lists was so riddled with security holes that hackers could easily have stolen personal information from scores of...; Tags: Web, Web Site, Transportation Security Administration, Government, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Web Technology, Vertical Industries, Security, Internet, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-01-12
Air marshall info among 100,000 records on lost TSA hard drive: The Transportation Security Administration has lost a hard drive with personal information from 100,000 current and former employees. TSA isnt sure whether its just lost or if it was stolen but in either case they "deeply regret this incident," Ars Technica reports. And so, as in so many...; Tags: Security, Homeland security, Government technology; Blog posts 2007-05-08
Port worker ID card program starts - without card readers: The Department of Homeland Security announced a new program, to start in March, that will require 750,000 U.S. port and maritime workers to carry biometric identification cards. There will be no card readers for at least a year, though, The Sacramento Bee reports. The Transportation Security...; Tags: Transportation Security Administration, United States Coast Guard, Security, Homeland security, Government technology; Blog posts 2007-01-04
FBI shuts down self-help boarding pass site: A new entry in annals of stupid programmers. Christopher Soghoian, a graduate student at Indiana University's School of Informatics, posted a program on his website to create fake airline boarding passes, The Washington Post. He says he was exposing a security flaw. The government says he's assisting terrorists. ...; Tags: pass, Transportation Security Administration, Christopher Soghoian, security; Blog posts 2006-11-01
Airport security exceptions and subjectivity: What a crock: Airport security exceptions and subjectivity: What a crockSome airports give baggies outI recently flew out of Seattle and Oakland and not only did that pre-screening guy check your baggie, he had baggies to give you if you didn't have one.Regarding Holiday Inns, you've stumbled upon something there. I remember...; Tags: Vertical industries, Holiday Inns, crock, Transportation Security Administration, security, government, airport security, homeland security; Discussion threads 2006-10-20

Airport security exceptions and subjectivity: What a crock: This week, for the Computer History Museums fellow awards, I made a quick trip to California that took me from Bostons Logan Airport to San Francisco International Airport and back again in under two days. For me, it was the first time I had liquids or gels in my bags...; Tags: Transportation Security Administration, gel; Blog posts 2006-10-20
Privatized airport security on the way: Under the Transportation Security Administration's Frequent Traveler program, people willing to have their fingerprints and background checks etched onto a smartcard would get their own check-in lines at the airport. That's the good news. Wired News reports that under TSA's outline released Friday the lines and the cards would be...; Tags: fingerprint, Transportation Security Administration; Blog posts 2006-01-24

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Safari "Carpet Bomb" attack information released: Fellow Ernst & Young ITEC co-worker Nitesh Dhanjani released information about some of his newest research on the Safari web browser this morning, and interestingly enough, Apple has decided NOT to fix some of the issues he presented. Dhanjani reported three issues, as follows below from his...; Tags: HTML, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Safari Carpet Bomb.It, Security, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-05-15
A stick and personal care for those who can afford it: Lorne Stitsky has a dream. It's the comfortable life internists enjoyed generations ago. A small number of patients, whom he can know intimately and who will depend on him as families did way back when. You can almost hear Randy Newman's Dayton Ohio 1903 playing in the...; Tags: Patient, Dr., Lorne Stitsky, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Virtualization and security: It's easy to spot market trends when many vendors call to schedule meetings and all of them want to speak about the same topic. The topic du mois is security in virtualized environments. Some of the suppliers are taking a very broad view of both security and virtualized environments. Others...; Tags: Network, Environment, Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine Software, Virtualization, Security, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Mobius Seattle 2008: SE, MWg, and HTC show off their devices: I was very pleased to be invited to the first Mobius event of 2008, that is actually being held here in the Seattle area. Thus, I had no travel to get to Mobius and that may have made the decision to invite me to this event...; Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Mobile, Mobius, XPERIA, SE, Panel Technology, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-15
News to know: Comcast-Plaxo; Icahn-Yahoo; Linux; Microsoft: Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly? Dennis Howlett: Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move Dan Farber: Comcast goes social with Plaxo acquisition Techmeme EIC podcast: HP-EDS; Google; SaaS Adrian...; Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Comcast Corp., Workday, Microsoft Corp., Zoho, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Rootkits, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Hardware, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware; Blog posts 2008-05-15
With the Quickness: HD Moore sets new land speed record with exploitation of Debian/Ubuntu OpenSSL flaw: So, for those who haven't heard, a Debian packager modified the source used for OpenSSL on Debian based systems Debian and the whole of the Ubuntu family to remove the seed used for PRNG Pseudo Random Number Generator used when creating SSL keys. Well, HD Moore set a new record...; Tags: OpenSSL, SSH, Debian, Key, Flaw, HD, ID, Ssl/Tls, Operating Systems, Open Source, Security, Software, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-05-14
security Researcher to release Cisco rootkit at EUSecWest: According to good friend Robert McMillan of IDG News, Sebastian Muniz, a researcher with Core Security Technologies, has developed malicious rootkit software for Cisco's routers, which he will release on May 22 at the EuSecWest conference in London. This will mark the first time at least publicly that someone has released a...; Tags: Black Hat, Cisco IOS, Router, Cisco Systems Inc., Robert McMillan, Rootkits, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Photos: Where the building is the network: The San Jose, Calif., headquarters of Echelon, maker of technologies for smart buildings, model the company's energy management systems.Behind the scenes of "smart" buildings, including the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Sears Tower in Chicago, lies technology from Echelon. The company doesn''t call its embedded control technologies "green,"...; Tags: Network, Echelon, Photograph, Building, It', Echelon', That', Networking, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-05-14
The death gap: The death gap, the likelihood of dieing young based solely on your economic and social class, is big and growing in the U.S. An analysis of statistics from the Clinton Administration, published today at PluS ONE, shows an uneducated white woman was more likely to die young...; Tags: Death Rate, Median Age, Benefits, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Windows XP Service Pack 3 adds support for WPA2: If you're running Windows XP and haven't yet installed Service Pack 3, Microsoft has included a few incentives that might interest networkers. First, XP Service Pack 3 provides support for Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2), the most recent security standard derived from the...; Tags: Router, Network, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack, Windows XP Service Pack 3, Microsoft Windows XP, Routers & Switches, Networking, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Rik Fairlie; Blog posts 2008-05-14
UK gov't releases transparent post-failure analysis: The UK Identity & Passport Service IPS has released an excellent post-implementation assessment report describing lessons learned from five key 2007 projects. In an unusually transparent move for any government agency, the report candidly examines each project's objectives, deliverables, and areas for improvement. ...; Tags: Project, Procurement, Analysis, IPS, Purchasing & Procurement, Government, Business Operations, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-05-14
MySpace's big spam win: Will it really be a deterrent?: MySpace won statutory damages of more than $230 million against spammers Stanford Wallace and Walter Rines, but the big question is whether this ruling--delivered in the Federal District Court in Los Angeles--will act as a deterrent. To be sure, MySpace's win see court order PDF has some...; Tags: MySpace, Stanford Wallace, User Engagement, Cyberthreats, Spam, Phishing, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Business PCs are going nowhere fast: "Everything that can be invented has been invented." If Charles Duell, in 1888 the Commissioner for the U.S. patent office, actually said that, then he would, of course, have been wrong; but I think the claim may have some applicability to the business PC in 2008....; Tags: PC, Business PC, Unix, Desktops, Hardware, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-05-14