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Passenger Says He Hacked Windows In New York Taxi Display Screen

2007-12-28 14:02:19 by Editor in Security Links
 
...display system files after seeing an error message on the screen By K.C. Jones InformationWeek December 27, 2007 03:10 PM A New York City software engineer managed to gain access to the operating system for a touch-screen display available in the back seat of many Manhattan taxicabs and also used it to connect to the Internet. But no...
 
Tags: display, display systems vendor, display systems, credit card, card, sensitive information, information, display system, credit card information
 
 
 
 
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What are the odds?

2007-02-09 00:00:00 by Burt Kaliski in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
The crew at RSA happened upon the following post on Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/47454997@N00/381185553 and the question was, "what are the odds"? * With a six-digit display, the odds are 1 in 1,000,000 that a token would display all zeros at a given time. The odds are the same for 999999 and any value in between, they're all equally likely
 
Tags: odds, six-digit display, display, flickr, zeros, time, post, crew, question
 
 
 
 
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To Remove the Worse You Need the Best

2007-08-01 19:25:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...display, point at a new pair of shoes. After a few minutes of gawking at the window display you move on home As you go inside your house, you noticed a flyer on your porch. The flyer is on the exact pair of shoes that you saw in the men's store. How did they know? Was it coincidence? If this all happened in the internet, then it's probably...
 
Tags: spyware programs, decent anti-spyware programs, anti-spyware programs, spyware, free, popular free anti-spyware, anti-spyware scanners, remove spyware, spyware doctor
 
 
 
 
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Adware and Spyware Such a Pain

2007-08-01 19:17:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...display, point at a new pair of shoes. After a few minutes of gawking at the window display you move on home As you go inside your house, you noticed a flyer on your porch. The flyer is on the exact pair of shoes that you saw in the men's store. How did they know? Was it coincidence? If this all happened in the internet, then it's probably...
 
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How a Classic Man-in-the-Middle Attack Saved Colombian Hostages

2008-07-10 01:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...display the other phone's identity on a screen. Because the phone is in a secure location, the user now knows who he is talking to, and if the phone displays another organization -- as it would if there were a MITM attack in progress -- he should hang up Zfone, a secure VoIP system, protects against MITM attacks with a short authentication...
 
Tags: implement mitm attacks, implement, mitm attacks, mitm, attack, mitm attack, bank, bank demands authentication, bank assumes
 
 
 
 
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Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

2008-07-15 06:47:19 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...display the other phone's identity on a screen. Because the phone is in a secure location, the user now knows who he is talking to, and if the phone displays another organization -- as it would if there were a MITM attack in progress -- he should hang up. Zfone, a secure VoIP system , protects against MITM attacks with a short authentication...
 
Tags: implement mitm attacks, implement, mitm attacks, mitm, mitm attack, bank, bank demands authentication, bank assumes, attacker inserts
 
 
 
 
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New Year's Resolutions for choosing online retailers

2007-12-20 09:31:28 by Andras Cser in Security & Risk Management
 
...display a user-selected image the next time logs in. This method authenticates the website to the user (mutual authentication Vendors: Arcot Systems, TriCipher, Oracle Adaptive Authentication Manager (Bharosa acquisition), Entrust, RSA Security/PassMark Software IP Geolocation (inexpensive, low level of security, low user inconvenience...
 
Tags: user inconvenience, low user inconvenience, users desktop, users desktop software, software, medium user inconvenience, low, imagic software, user
 
 
 
 
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On virtualisation

2007-05-29 16:20:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...display. If exploited, by specifying pathological parameters for the operation, this could lead to an attacker compromising the virtual machine process. While you would typically require root (or equivalent) privileges in the guest to interact with a device at the low level required, device drivers will often offload the parameter checking...
 
Tags: machine, virtual machine process, virtual machine software, host machine, host, software, virtual machine, low, low level access
 
 
 
 
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Help us fill in the gaps!

2007-11-29 14:28:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...display warnings in search results when a site is known to be malicious, which can help you avoid drive-by downloads and other computer compromises. We are already distributing this data through the Safe Browsing API , and we are working on bringing this protection to more users by integrating with more Google products. While these are great...
 
Tags: malware, distribute malware, malware sites, safe, avoid drive-by downloads, internet safe, site, google products, display warnings
 
 
 
 
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Goodbye IE6

2006-10-17 15:01:13 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...display, rendering in the wrong font, leaving turds all over its window while scrolling. Once it starts I have to kill iexplore.exe to make it stop. I believe it is fully-patched In my mind the appearance of this problem is correlated with the appearance of two new aggressive JavaScript interfaces: The much-improved BlogLines feed selector,...
 
Tags: xpsp sp2 gdr, window contents, window, aggressive javascript interfaces, microsoft internet explorer, firefox andor ie7, bloglines feed selector, memory corruption, render correctly