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Leaked UK Government Document on National ID

2008-01-31 14:08:15 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Seems the UK government has plans to coerce its citizens into a national ID database. Actual pdf document is here , and hopefully mirrored elsewhere
 
 
 
 
 
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Declassified NSA Document Reveals the Secret History of TEMPEST

2008-04-30 04:00:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
The secret history of how the nation's spies discovered that their ace equipment was leaking data into the ether has never been told before. But now a declassified NSA document tells how a Bell Telephone engineer stumbled onto a problem that vexes the agency to this day
 
 
 
 
 
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Compliance By The Numbers - Addressing Requirements with Online Document Management and Collaboration Technology

2008-05-01 06:25:02 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Source: Xythos) Compliance has become an inescapable part of daily life. This whitepaper examines how online document management may assist organizations to improve collaboration, manage and secure sensitive data, and reduce duplication and errors for all documents and content while using applications and processes that knowledge workers already...
 
 
 
 
 
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Malware and Office Documents Joining Forces

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2008-07-14 11:20:34 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...documents, presentations, spreadsheets and PDF files, are the most widely abused ones in targeted attacks, which when backed up with enough personal information and take into consideration the time of their attack if the social engineering campaign is either going to be based on a current/upcoming event, or on an event anticipated due to...
 
 
 
 
 
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UPDATES GALORE! or, THE PRONOUN WE MEANS YOU AND ME!

2008-08-13 15:24:17 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...document, everyone is close to saying that they generally like it, and once that finally happens then bam, were ready to move onward and upward with better things (see Cookbooks, below). Weve got a couple of changes to the current document that have been requested that arent a big deal. For example, one request is that we make some statement...
 
 
 
 
 
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Why Do We Accept Signatures by Fax?

2008-05-29 01:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...document so that it'll look real when faxed. There is so little security in fax signatures that it's mind-boggling that anyone accepts them Yet people do, all the time. I've signed book contracts, credit card authorizations, nondisclosure agreements and all sorts of financial documents -- all by fax. I even have a scanned file of my signature...
 
 
 
 
 
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Fax Signatures

2008-06-03 07:01:20 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...document so that it'll look real when faxed. There is so little security in fax signatures that it's mind-boggling that anyone accepts them Yet people do, all the time. I've signed book contracts, credit card authorizations, nondisclosure agreements and all sorts of financial documents -- all by fax. I even have a scanned file of my signature...
 
 
 
 
 
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Fax Signatures

2008-06-03 07:01:20 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...document so that it'll look real when faxed. There is so little security in fax signatures that it's mind-boggling that anyone accepts them Yet people do, all the time. I've signed book contracts, credit card authorizations, nondisclosure agreements and all sorts of financial documents -- all by fax. I even have a scanned file of my signature...
 
 
 
 
 
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A Security Assessment of the Internet Protocol

2008-08-20 07:48:56 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...documents (RFCs) being issued by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) leading to a situation in which "known" security problems have not always been addressed by all vendors. In many cases vendors have implemented quick "fixes" to protocol flaws without a careful analysis of their effectiveness and their impact on interoperability As a...
 
 
 
 
 
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Protect your data: everything else is just plumbing

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