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Covert channel vulnerabilities in anonymity systems

2007-12-10 10:39:42 by Steven J. Murdoch in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...channels (unintended means to communicate in violation of a security policy) to analyse several anonymity systems in an innovative way One application for anonymity systems is to prevent collusion in competitions. I show how covert channels may be exploited to violate these protections and construct defences against such attacks, drawing from...
 
Tags: covert, covert channel vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities, network covert channels, covert channels, channels, covert channel, anonymity systems, systems
 
 
 
 
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Prediction for 2008: Service providers avoid straightforward DTV answers

2008-01-04 21:12:01 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...channels My prediction for 2008 is that confusion will reign because part of the answer is provided by cable, satellite, or telephone service companies, and their incentive is to maintain confusion because thats an effective up-sell technique The simple story is that over-the-air (OTA) analog goes away, replaced by OTA digital. For OTA...
 
Tags: ota, digital ota customer, analog, analog customers, analog ota reception, analog cable customers, analog cable systems, analog channels, cheap basic analog
 
 
 
 
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Spygate in Formula One racing Or: Dont forget your ancient floppy disks!

2008-03-27 16:16:37 by Thomas Raschke in Security & Risk Management
 
...channels like email, IM, and FTP, as well as endpoint activities like copying to USBs, CD-Roms, external hard drives, and yes, floppy disks are now sufficiently safeguarded with the help of modern data loss prevention (DLP) solutions. F1 teams simply cannot afford to lose critical data because even small data pieces can mean the difference...
 
Tags: floppy disks, formula, data theft, massive data theft, data theft channels, teams, profile formula, teams simply, indycar series
 
 
 
 
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Montego Networks spotted on radar

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2008-03-28 12:40:02 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...channels (TCP/UDP Ports) that they need to communicate on vs. opening up all channels. This helps mitigate exposure. So, lets say you open up port 6667 and only port 6667 for them to communicate with each other. Well, this is now a bit more secure than the other option of leaving all ports open but lets say this is a very very critical server...
 
Tags: montego networks, montego, montego networks technology, montego networks announcement, announcement, virtual communication, communication, party security vendors, security vendors
 
 
 
 
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In Passing on DLP

2008-05-16 19:08:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...channels- thus, some new technology for accurate detection of possibly modified documents across channels (e.g. common network Tough to match? Yup, it sure it. But that's not all: I'd like it to defend against theft of structured, unstructured and structured->unstructured (e.g. database contents pasted to email!) information over just about...
 
Tags: dlp, data theft, malicious data theft, dlp start-ups, theft, world-famous dlp analyst, manual information, information, takes dlp
 
 
 
 
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Montego Networks spotted on radar

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2008-03-28 12:40:02 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...channels (TCP/UDP Ports) that they need to communicate on vs. opening up all channels. This helps mitigate exposure. So, let???s say you open up port 6667 and only port 6667 for them to communicate with each other. Well, this is now a bit more secure than the other option of leaving all ports open but let???s say this is a very very critical...
 
Tags: montego, montego networks, virtual communication, communication, party security vendors, security vendors, virtual, virtual network communications, physical
 
 
 
 
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Some Yahoo! employees exposed through mistaken email

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2007-12-12 15:11:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...channels People who don't know, need to understand that standard email is "clear-text" communication. Anyone from you to the recipient can intercept and read the contents of the email To demonstrate, let's say that I am sending my online bank password to my wife via email, to her Google email account, Gmail (a no-no, but a demo...
 
Tags: fidelity investments, fidelity, fidelity inadvertently, fidelity investments client, email, fidelity investments inadvertently, yahoo, administrator, email administrator
 
 
 
 
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The Return on Investment for Securing Information

2007-08-13 00:00:00 by Sean Kline in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...channels via federation, may be relatively low. Quantifying traditional ROI metrics, on the other hand, may range in difficulty. The value of risk reduction may be more amorphous
 
Tags: traditional roi metrics, roi, strategic drivers, distribution channels, difficulty, investment, risk reduction, return, business initiative
 
 
 
 
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Hacking tool guidance finally appears

2007-12-31 17:50:32 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...channels Is the article widely used for legitimate purposes Does it have a substantial installation base What was the context in which the article was used to commit the offence compared with its original intended purpose which after a good start using words like primarily and deliberately (which would have been a sensible law to have in the...
 
Tags: bad, bad people download, cma offence, offence, bad guys, guys, offence stage, tool, article widely
 
 
 
 
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Zune Killer App - Windows Media Center

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2007-11-26 21:55:40 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
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