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The bad guys will use BitLocker, too

2007-07-13 18:03:36 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...bad guys would find out how to exploit the bypass -- meaning that BitLocker becomes completely useless for you Here's a similar example: some people have advocated that cell phones be disabled in certain public places (movie theaters, tunnels, sports stadiums, and so on) because terrorists might use them to remotely trigger bombs. What a...
 
Tags: bad guys, guys, law enforcement, beneficial, bitlocker, destroy beneficial utility, conduct forensic analysis, technology, bypass
 
 
 
 
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Most Awesomely Bad Military Acronyms

2008-07-02 17:00:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
The U.S military comes up with an acronym for everything. Some of them are cute. Some are obtuse. Some are a mouthful. And some are just ... bad. Awesomely bad. Think "PAST-A!" (Pedagogically Adaptive Scenarios for Training - Automated!) "IBOM" (Ionizing Brownout Mitigation System) and "FEAST" (Framework for Enabling Adaptive Scenario Generation...
 
Tags: awesomely bad, bad, adaptive scenario generation, brownout mitigation system, military, adaptive scenarios, acronym, ibom, mouthful
 
 
 
 
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Wikileaks: Voice of the people or just bad news?

2008-02-20 08:27:18 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
...bad guys, and it's been my experience that law enforcement officials will deal with issues brought to their attention if there is sufficient evidence--and evidence (i.e. proof) is very important. A set of documents alone is often insufficient to prove guilt or to understand all the ramifications of a case. So posting those documents, or a...
 
Tags: sufficient evidence, evidence, law enforcement officials, bad guys, documents, irresponsible behavior, prove guilt, issues, experience
 
 
 
 
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Anton on BAD Logs Next Week

2008-04-25 17:58:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
Want to see me talk about how bad logs really are Come see me present at OWASP in Connecticut next week. It is on April 30 at 6PM Thanks to James McGovern for inviting me About me: http://www.chuvakin.org
 
Tags: bad logs, week, james mcgovern, org, owasp, connecticut, talk, april, 6pm
 
 
 
 
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The "IT admin bad guy"? Not sure I buy it much..

2008-06-23 22:44:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...bad eggs or apples in the bunch, but overall I think they are ethically sound people This is like implying that since the guard to the safe has access to it, he/she might be taking advantage of that ability. My view is that the state of technology is (or was) such that there is no way around it - there had to be someone who has access ...
 
Tags: admins, install technology, technology, recent survey, apples, bad eggs, access, sound people, privileges
 
 
 
 
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NSA's Warrantless Eavesdropping Targets Innocent Americans

2008-10-15 12:39:38 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...bad : Faulk says he and others in his section of the NSA facility at Fort Gordon routinely shared salacious or tantalizing phone calls that had been intercepted, alerting office mates to certain time codes of "cuts" that were available on each operator's computer Hey, check this out," Faulk says he would be told, "there's good phone sex or...
 
Tags: pillow talk, fort gordon routinely, faulk, phone sex, check, security device, power, time codes, common sense
 
 
 
 
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Admins , Good Guys or "I am NOT an Idiot!"

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2008-07-29 15:19:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
...bad guys; they are in place to prevent the bad guys from doing "an unspeakable evil" (tm) :-) on you. On the other hand, good guys are doing "the right thing" every time - why monitor them? It goes without saying that nobody ever moves between these groups, especially, not from "good guys" to "bad guys As I am rambling about this, many of my...
 
Tags: terry childs, childs, guys, admins, terry childs story, bad boss, boss, underneath management, management
 
 
 
 
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Stolen Penn State laptop had information on 677

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2008-01-28 12:43:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...bad guys to know what they have Evan] IF the "bad guys" are motivated by identity theft, then they already know what they have. IF the "bad guys" are curious, they might find what they have. IF the "bad guys" are dumb, they wouldn't know the difference. It seems like most "bad guys' are dumb, so take that for what its worth Lindstrom added...
 
Tags: information, store information, sensitive personal information, information custodian, information security practice, identifiable information, confidential information, laptop, penn
 
 
 
 
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Oklahoma Department of Corrections SQL exposure

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2008-04-21 11:23:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...bad news that tens of thousands of their names, social security numbers and allied data were effectively available on the Web for around three years Reference URL The Daily WTF ComputerWeekly The Register SecurityProPortal Report Credit Alex Papadimoulis, The Daily WTF Response From the online sources cited above Residents of Oklahoma...
 
Tags: social security, oklahoma, sql, residents, oklahoma residents, bad, bad news, department, sql query