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Wherefore broadcast SSIDs?

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2008-02-25 21:20:00 by Mike Rothman in Security Mike's Blog
...broadcasting your SSID, which is the network identifier of your wireless network. I'm with Steve Riley on this one. He does a pretty good treatment about why it doesn't matter whether you broadcast or not Whether someone can see your network or not is besides the point. The real question is whether they can access it. By doing some very...
 
Tags: network, wireless network, network identifier, simple security configurations, broadcast, real question, photo credit, wireless router, machines
 
 
 
 
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Last HOPE Radio

2008-06-05 11:32:45 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...broadcast their minds and their iPods In the center of the summers top hacker event will be a small isolation booth. Radio Statler! as the station is called, will send out a three day broadcast of all-original material. From the center of Manhattan, around the clock, discussions of the past, present, and future of technology, creativity, and...
 
Tags: live, live computer visuals, hope, digital, digital gloves, live digital art, radio, digital art sketchpad, conference
 
 
 
 
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Myth vs. reality: Wireless SSIDs

2007-10-16 07:08:58 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...broadcasting your wireless network's SSID will somehow make you more secure? This is a myth that needs to be forcibly dragged out behind the woodshed, strangled until it wheezes its last labored breath, then shot several times for good measure Folks, there are fundamental differences between names, which are public claims of identities, and...
 
Tags: simple ssid discovery, network, ssid, wireless network, networks, enterprise networks, wireless networks, mac, secure networks
 
 
 
 
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Securing Network Location Awareness with Authenticated DHCP

2008-03-19 12:47:02 by Steven J. Murdoch in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...broadcast a large number of identifiers which may leak privacy sensitive information (name, employer, office location, job role); even randomly generated identifiers allow a user to be tracked. When roaming, a laptop should not broadcast identifiers unless necessary, and on moving location either pseudonymous identifiers should be re-used or...
 
Tags: network location, location, network location awareness, network, office location, dhcp, network location identifier, logical network, vista dhcp client
 
 
 
 
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Speaking of Security Podcast #87

2007-12-19 00:00:00 by Podcast Producers in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...broadcast for 2007. This week's topic is Information Risk Management, an information-centric strategy that provides the most effective means of recognizing, assessing and mitigating the risk that information is exposed to throughout its lifecycle. Hear from a recent RSA Web Seminar conducted in collaboration with TowerGroup, on how financial...
 
Tags: information risk management, risk, strategy, sound irm strategy, information, companion white paper, final broadcast, financial institutions, listendownload
 
 
 
 
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Silverlight Broadcasts TV: It Really is Getting That Good Now, But Also Painful

2008-02-17 22:45:36 by mcurphey in Mark Curphey - SecurityBuddha.com
 
I am Mark. I work for Microsoft and I like our products. There with that over with, last week my Livestation beta invite was approved. It is really superb. Better than any other web TV I have seen to date. Its built on SilverLight which will broadcast the Olympics later this year. Now thats scale
 
Tags: livestation beta invite, silverlight, web tv, week, olympics, microsoft, mark, broadcast, scale
 
 
 
 
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Got Entropy ?

2008-04-02 02:55:47 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
 
...Broadcast a Signal to Undermine This Such an attacker could not remove RF noise from the received signal. Our eyes and brains are good at filtering out the noise in the TV video, but there is a lot of it. Part of the noise comes from the atmospheric background RF, but there are also flaws (noise) in the tuners radio and analog-to-digital...
 
Tags: entropy, random, 32-byte random, byte, hardware random, entropy sources, sequence, random sequence, pull entropy
 
 
 
 
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Seven Years of Wi-Fi Networking News

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2008-04-04 15:10:45 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...broadcast, like Qualcomm's MediaFLO which is really TV to the cell phone; rather, we'll see ways in which Wi-Fi, WiMax, and cellular data are used to push stored and streaming media to all sorts of devices. I look to Starbucks, Apple, and AT&T to lead the way on cached media in stores that can be filled up at local network speeds: download a...
 
Tags: wi-fi, wi-fi hotspot giant, municipal wi-fi, wi-fi signal finder, wi-fi world, world, 11b-later-wi-fi site, 11b, news
 
 
 
 
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Security Matters: I've Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch

2008-06-26 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...broadcast "orders" limiting capabilities. Cellphones could be remotely set to vibrate mode in restaurants and concert halls, and be turned off on airplanes and in hospitals. Cameras could be prohibited from taking pictures in locker rooms and museums, and recording equipment could be disabled in theaters. Professors finally could prevent...
 
Tags: security, wireless devices, devices, prevent, prevent security cameras, difficult security, cameras, prevent students, difficult
 
 
 
 
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Kill Switches and Remote Control

2008-07-01 06:48:37 by schneier in Schneier on Security