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Change Your Name and Avoid the TSA Watchlist

2008-09-15 13:25:21 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...change his name So now, my official name is François Mario Labbé," he said Then you have to change everything: driver's license, social insurance, medicare, credit card -- everything Although it's not a big change from Mario Labbé, he said it's been enough to foil the U.S. customs computers
 
Tags: franois mario labb, mario labb, labb, change, department, customs computers, homeland security, identity theft, social insurance
 
 
 
 
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NASDAQ Symbology Change

2007-12-14 03:18:47 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...changes at NASDAQ. For those of you who dont follow this kind of stuff, the old ticker symbols constituted a fairly small subset of possible combinations. The symbology change was designed to allow greater flexibility in the future of the naming conventions (think about it being like the difference between IPv4 and IPv6 in the stock market)....
 
Tags: symbology, symbology change, characters, legal characters, special characters, nasdaq, ticker symbols, stock market, millions
 
 
 
 
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Quick and Fun Poll on Behavior Change

2008-03-24 13:53:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
While I am analyzing my previous poll, here is a quick and fun one: do we change our behavior when monitored ? Vote away About me: http://www.chuvakin.org
 
Tags: change, behavior, fun, previous poll, quick, org, vote, chuvakin
 
 
 
 
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"The Kite Runner" will change how you think about Afghanistan

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2008-04-29 11:16:44 by HASH0x8acb904 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...change my life. It is the Kite Runner , based on the book of the same title by Khaled Hosseini The movie tells the story of two boys growing up in pre-Soviet invasion Kabul, Afghanistan all the way up to the year 2000, with a pre-9/11 Taliban regime in charge. You can read the Wikipedia article I linked to or better yet go rent the movie or...
 
Tags: people, afghan people real, muslim world, world, afghanistan, movie tells, movie, kite runner, american view
 
 
 
 
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Nation's Spies Say Climate Change Could Spark War

2008-06-23 21:30:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
Environmental groups have been warning for years that global climate change could make already-tense parts of the world even worse, and even spark whole new conflicts. Now, in a classified national document, the nation's spies are saying pretty much the same thing
 
Tags: nation, change, spark, spies, national document, global, environmental, world, already-tense
 
 
 
 
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Lawmakers call on NebuAd to change privacy notification

2008-07-17 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
Several U.S. lawmakers called on behavioral advertising vendor NebuAd to change its privacy notification procedures so that customers have to opt in for the company to track their Web habits instead of opting out
 
Tags: privacy notification procedures, change, vendor nebuad, lawmakers, web habits, behavioral, track, opt, customers
 
 
 
 
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OSfuscate: Change your Windows OS TCP/IP Fingerprint to confuse P0f, NetworkMiner, Ettercap, Nmap and other OS detection tools

2008-10-03 00:15:15 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...change in Windows XP/Vista that would let you reconfigure how the TCP/IP stack works, thus changing how the above tools would detect the OS. I wasn't sure what all registry changes to make, but luckily I found Craig Heffner's work on the subject. In this post I cover the issue of passive/active OS fingerprint detection, as well as release my...
 
Tags: fingerprint, tools, confuse tools, fingerprint detection, registry, windows box, nmap, change, tcpip stack
 
 
 
 
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Change your passwords with your smoke detector batteries

2008-10-05 12:26:43 by Scott in Scott Wright's Security Views
 
If youve changed your smoke detector batteries more recently than youve changed your passwords, then you should think about changing some of them now. If you can change passwords more often, great. But I realize that some of us have upwards of 25 passwords to manage on a regular basis (click HERE). Its not fun having
 
Tags: passwords, smoke detector batteries, change passwords, regular basis, recently, fun, click, upwards, manage
 
 
 
 
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AIB technical problem discloses details of bank transfers

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2007-11-28 17:08:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...change to one or more internal systems, likely without thorough testing and/or validation Customers of the bank who either received or transferred an international payment between November 13th and 15th are affected by the error Those who received the notices were wrongly provided with details relating to someone else's transaction. As a...
 
Tags: bank, account, bank account details, aib bank, bank account, aib, details, wrong customers, customers