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The Risk of Anthrax

2008-08-13 14:29:10 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...biological weapons and the possible use of such weapons on a massive scale, there are significant constraints on such designs. The current dearth of substantial biological weapons programs and arsenals by governments worldwide, and the even smaller number of cases in which systems were actually used, seems to belie -- or at least bring into...
 
Tags: weapons, biological weapons programs, programs, nuclear weapons programs, biological weapons, biological warfare programs, surely maintain stockpiles, noble ideological, humanitarian reason
 
 
 
 
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Locked Call Boxes and Banned Geiger Counters

2008-01-18 07:44:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...biological, or radiological attack detectors: The legislation which was proposed by the Bloomberg administration and would be the first of its kind in the nation would empower the police commissioner to decide whether to grant a free five-year permit to individuals and companies seeking to "possess or deploy such detectors." Common smoke...
 
Tags: boxes, false fire alarms, fire, fire alarms, false alarms, prevent false alarms, alarm boxes, alarm, chicago fire
 
 
 
 
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Network threats develop 'antibiotic' resistance

2008-02-12 00:00:00 by Andreas M. Antonopoulos in Network World on Security
 
...biological immunity systems. I find that biological sciences and especially evolution provide some great insights into the behavior of malware, malware creators and malware defenses over longer periods of time. I also see a lot of parallels between the evolution of malware and the evolution of darknets (stealthy P2P networks
 
Tags: malware, malware creators, malware defenses, evolution science, evolution, evolution provide, stealthy p2p networks, biological immunity systems, scientific field
 
 
 
 
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Terrorists Attacking via Air Conditioners

2008-05-16 12:03:00 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...biological agents directly into external air-intakes or internal air-circulation systems. Unless the building has carbon filters (or the equivalent), volatile chemical agents would not be stopped and would enter the building untenanted Other scenarios involve the use of helicopters equipped with agricultural spraying equipment to discharge...
 
Tags: chemical, introduce chemical, radioactive material, volatile chemical agents, external air-intakes, biological agents directly, internal air-circulation systems, adverse health effects, radiological dispersal device
 
 
 
 
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Where Computers and Biology Intersect What is Life?

2008-08-07 11:52:28 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...biological virus called Sputnik that can infect another virus (a Giant Virus, known as mamavirus), and hijack its machinery for self-replication and theyre using this new discovery as evidence that a virus is alive The question whether biological viruses are forms of life has been debated, since they lack the respiratory and metabolic process...
 
Tags: giant virus, virus, biological virus, sputnik, sputnik produce fewer, computer virus, life, mamavirus, mamavirus particles
 
 
 
 
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Is the doctor in?

2008-04-20 14:54:33 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...biological viruses that attack organisms. From an epidemiological viewpoint, he was able to determine how these viruses were affecting systems within the computer (the boot-sector was affected by the Brain virus, the .com files were affected by the Lehigh virus, and both .com and .exe files were affected by the Jerusalem virus). Tippetts...
 
Tags: anti-virus software programs, software, virus, virus detection, computer software company, brain virus, jerusalem virus, company, lehigh virus
 
 
 
 
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Biometrics in Identity Management Systems

2008-05-22 06:22:46 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
...biological and behavioral traitscan connect bodily persons to identity records to create a one-to-one correspondence between people and records, restricting people to one record or records to one person. They are a natural tool for identity management, but many suggest that biometric technologies invade privacy. The author addresses the...
 
Tags: identity records, records, identity management, biometric recognition, recognition, people, author addresses, natural tool, basic assumptions
 
 
 
 
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Adaptive security from the Gartner IT Security Summit

2008-06-09 20:25:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...biological system. Very interesting Most of it made sense - however, it seemed hard to see how we could build adaptive/proactive security systems just yet. We are still figuring out security based on signatures and we cant build them fast enough - adaptive might mean too many gray areas in the short term. And it necessitates learning from...
 
Tags: security, security summit, security systems, security based, model based security, adaptive, security view, adaptive mechanisms, neil macdonald keynote
 
 
 
 
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Hand Grenades as Weapons of Mass Destruction

2008-10-01 06:37:22 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...biological weapons. He was arrested in 2006 on charges of scheming to use weapons of mass destruction at the Cherryvale Mall in the northern Illinois city of Rockford Like the continuing cheapening of the word "terrorism ," we are now cheapening the term "weapons of mass destruction
 
Tags: mass destruction, weapons, biological weapons, hand grenades, mall, northern illinois city, cherryvale mall, terrorism, christmas season
 
 
 
 
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Keeping America Safe from Terrorism by Monitoring Distillery Webcams

2008-10-31 11:15:49 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...biological, radiological, nuclear and high explosives. The department which contacted the Distillery deals with the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, going to sites to verify treaty compliance. Funnily enough chemical weapon processes look very similar to the distilling process and as part of training there is a visit to a...
 
Tags: chemical weapons convention, chemical weapons, weapons, threat, future wmd threat, mass destruction -chemical, mass destruction, distillery, threat control