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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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A tip on using ASP.NET validation controls

2008-09-03 17:16:35 by keith-brown in Security Briefs
 
...display, so always use ErrorMessage in a verbose enough way that it will be helpful from a ValidationSummary control If you need a shorter message to display inline (i.e., where the validation control is on the form, as opposed to the ValidationSummary) use the body of the control to define it In the past, I've used RequiredFieldValidator...
 
Tags: shorter message, message, inline error message, validation control element, control, inline, display inline, errormessage, errormessage property
 
 
 
 
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Better exception reporting in ASP.NET

2008-08-01 20:30:05 by keith-brown in Security Briefs
 
...display errors in a more useful way. This also allowed me to drop some fields from the event report that aren't useful for us. And I was able to construct a much more concise and useful subject line (the subject line that SimpleMailWebEventProvider uses is rather clunky since it assumes it might be spitting out a whole bunch of buffered...
 
Tags: error event, event, provider, default event, email provider calls, event log provider, provider include, custom email provider, output stack traces
 
 
 
 
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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...
 
Tags: spyware programs, decent anti-spyware programs, anti-spyware programs regularly, anti-spyware programs, spyware, free, popular free anti-spyware, spyware program, spyware program offer
 
 
 
 
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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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Internet Explorer security levels compared

2008-09-17 00:19:36 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...Display video and animation on a Web page that doesn't use an external media player D D D D D Download signed ActiveX controls D P P P E Download unsigned ActiveX controls D D D D P Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe for scripting D D D D P Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins D E E E E Script ActiveX controls marked as...
 
Tags: script behaviors, script, script activex controls, activex controls, net framework, net, zone, content zone, content
 
 
 
 
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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