security

August 21, 2008

08:45
SANSFIRE 2008
More than 40 courses, SANS top instructors, all in one great place! SANSFIRE 2008 is being held in Washington, DC on July 22-31. Register today!
Source: SANS NewsBites
Categories: security
08:45
Woman Wrongly Sued by RIAA Awarded More Than US $100,000 in Legal Fees (August 15 & 18, 2008)
A US Federal Court has awarded Tanya Andersen more than US $100,000 in legal fees and interest following her successful fight against a lawsuit brought by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).......
Source: SANS NewsBites
Categories: security
08:45
More Than One-Third of Vista Purchasers Downgrade to XP (August 18, 2008)
Statistics gathered by Devil Mountain Software indicate that nearly 35 percent of new PCs have been downgraded from Vista to Windows XP.......
Source: SANS NewsBites
Categories: security
08:45
CAPTCHA Technology Doing Double Duty (August 14, 2008)
A new version of CAPTCHA technology, which is used to verify that certain online tasks are being performed by humans and not automated systems, is now being used to help decipher old books and newspapers.......
Source: SANS NewsBites
Categories: security
08:45
Man Pleads Guilty in LimeWire Data Theft Case (August 18, 2008)
Nineteen-year-old Jason M.......
Source: SANS NewsBites
Categories: security
08:45
Ruling a Boon to Creative Commons License (August 14 & 15, 2008)
In a victory for open source software, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has overturned a lower court decision that said open source software owners could not take legal action for copyright violation against others who used the software.......
Source: SANS NewsBites
Categories: security
08:45
New Zealand University eMail Server Used to Send Spam (August 15, 2008)
Four staff members at the University of Otago (New Zealand) fell prey to a spear phishing attack that tricked them into providing their login credentials.......
Source: SANS NewsBites
Categories: security
08:45
Attack Hijacks Firefox Clipboard (August 15 & 18, 2008)
A recently discovered attack targets the clipboard in the Firefox browser running on both Mac and Windows computers.......
Source: SANS NewsBites
Categories: security
08:45
Irish Police Searching for Cyber Thieves
(August 18, 2008).......
Source: SANS NewsBites
Categories: security
08:45
Credit Card Data Stolen from Louisiana and Mississippi Restaurants (August 18, 2008)
US Federal law enforcement authorities are searching for the culprits behind a rash of credit card data thefts from restaurants in Louisiana and Mississippi.......
Source: SANS NewsBites
Categories: security
08:45
Florida's Wuesthoff Health System Pre-Registration Website Breached (August 15, 2008)
Wuesthoff Health System in Florida is notifying approximately 500 patients that their personal information may have been compromised when unknown individuals gained access to its pre-registration website.......
Source: SANS NewsBites
Categories: security
08:45
Internet Giants Respond to call for Voluntary Code of Conduct (August 4 & 18, 2008)
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have responded to a request from US Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill.......
Source: SANS NewsBites
Categories: security
08:45
TA08-225A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
Source: US-CERT
Categories: news, security
08:45
Mark Rasch: Get Off My Cloud
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Source: Security Focus
Categories: news, security

August 20, 2008

13:40
Nice Article on Personal Surveillance
Nice article on personal surveillance from the London Review of Books....
Source: Schneier on Security
Categories: security
08:48
A Security Assessment of the Internet Protocol
Interesting: Preface The TCP/IP protocols were conceived during a time that was quite different from the hostile environment they operate in now. Yet a direct result of their effectiveness and widespread early adoption is that much of today's global economy remains dependent upon them. While many textbooks and articles have created the myth that the Internet Protocols (IP) were designed...
Source: Schneier on Security
Categories: security

August 19, 2008

23:00
Brief: States seek workarounds for e-voting systems
States seek workarounds for e-voting systems
Source: Security Focus
Categories: news, security
16:23
Mental Illness and Murder
Contrary to popular belief, homicide due to mental illness is declining, at least in England and Wales: The rate of total homicide and the rate of homicide due to mental disorder rose steadily until the mid-1970s. From then there was a reversal in the rate of homicides attributed to mental disorder, which declined to historically low levels, while other homicides...
Source: Schneier on Security
Categories: security
14:15
Adi Shamir's Cube Attacks
At this moment, Adi Shamir is giving an invited talk at the Crypto 2008 conference about a new type of cryptanalytic attack called "cube attacks." He claims very broad applicability to block ciphers, stream ciphers, hash functions, etc. My personal joke -- at least I hope it's a joke -- is that he's going to break every NIST hash submission...
Source: Schneier on Security
Categories: security
07:09
The Continuing Cheapening of the Word "Terrorism"
Illegally diverting water is terrorism: South Australian Premier Mike Rann says the diversion of water from the Paroo River in Queensland is an act of terrorism during a water crisis. Anonymously threatening people with messages on playing cards, like the Joker in The Dark Knight, is terrorism: Giles County deputies arrest two county teenagers they say made terroristic threats to...
Source: Schneier on Security
Categories: security