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Consumer Reports on Aviation Security and the TSA

2008-01-10 13:58:40 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...doors as something that was a good idea, and should have been done years earlier. Critics, however, say a stronger door is only half of the solution. "People have this illusion that hardened cockpit doors work, and they don't," Dzakovic says. "If you want to have a secure door, you need to have a double hulled door Consumer Reports searched...
 
Tags: security, aviation security, security consultancy, doors, double doors, door, consumer reports, secure door, cockpit doors
 
 
 
 
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Cost/Benefit Analysis of Airline Security

2008-07-21 05:53:15 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...doors and (ii) Federal Air Marshal Service. These two security measures cost the United States government and the airlines nearly $1 billion per year. This paper seeks to discover whether aviation security measures are cost-effective by considering their effectiveness, their cost and expected lives saved as a result of such expenditure. An...
 
Tags: cost-effective, cost-effective security measure, cost, cost-effective measure, opportunity cost, cost-benefit analysis, additional cost, cost-benefit assessment, benefit
 
 
 
 
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Stiennon wants to know - it is all about execution

2008-03-21 01:15:44 by HASH0x8b48134 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...doors as well? How can you assure us that NAC is such a great concept that customers are beating down your doors to get some of that magic? Just wondering..... -Stiennon Richard, first of all thanks for the opportunity to respond. Secondly, you would think after all this time you would know that my name is spelled Alan. With that out of the...
 
Tags: stiennon, nac, richard nac, ignorant, ignorant richard, richard, richard stiennon, top richard, nac companies
 
 
 
 
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Stiennon wants to know - it is all about execution

2008-03-21 02:15:44 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...doors as well? How can you assure us that NAC is such a great concept that customers are beating down your doors to get some of that magic? Just wondering..... -Stiennon Richard, first of all thanks for the opportunity to respond. Secondly, you would think after all this time you would know that my name is spelled Alan. With that out of the...
 
Tags: stiennon, nac, richard nac, ignorant, ignorant richard, richard, richard stiennon, top richard, nac companies
 
 
 
 
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The bad guys will use BitLocker, too

2007-07-13 18:03:36 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...doors that law enforcement could use to bypass the encryption The answer is very simple, and I'm sure not what he wanted to hear: there are no back doors. Period Think about it for a moment: if there were a back door, would you trust the technology? Of course not. If Microsoft incorporated a mechanism to bypass the encryption, then we'd be...
 
Tags: bad guys, guys, law enforcement, beneficial, bitlocker, destroy beneficial utility, conduct forensic analysis, technology, bypass
 
 
 
 
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Five-year-old wanders into bank branch after-hours

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2008-02-06 10:24:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...doors would be locked. Even if the door were unlocked, most of us would assume that alarms would go off as soon as I opened it I don't suggest that you drive from bank to bank looking for unlocked doors because this might get you in a lot of trouble Past Breaches Unknown
 
Tags: bank, customers, bank customers, bank after-hours, branch, door malfunction, bank doors, malfunction, breach description
 
 
 
 
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Union Mortgage loan applicant information found in dumpster

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2008-02-29 14:14:23 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...doors recently after either failing to pay taxes or file its tax returns Evan] Sounds shady for a mortgage company that people trust much of their financial lives with Channel 3 News retrieved as many documents as possible and returned them to their rightful owners Ken Knabe, a lawyer from Lakewood, was shocked that we had his bank...
 
Tags: information, collect personal information, personal information, union mortgage, loan, loan companies continue, loan companies, union mortgage services, background information
 
 
 
 
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KeeLoq Still Broken

2008-04-04 06:03:03 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...doors and garage doors We present the first successful DPA (Differential Power Analysis) attacks on numerous commercially available products employing KeeLoq. These so-called side-channel attacks are based on measuring and evaluating the power consumption of a KeeLoq device during its operation. Using our techniques, an attacker can reveal...
 
Tags: keeloq, keeloq algorithm, keeloq device, remote control, keeloq code, keeloq encryption algorithm, side-channel attacks, attacks, remote controls
 
 
 
 
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Fidel Castro exports his criminals, but we give guns to ours.

2008-04-23 15:03:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...doors to Felons who have been convicted of Robbery, Burglary, sex offenses and making terroristc threats. What can they be thinking? Have the lunatics started running the assylum These are some of the worst offenses on the books. I could somewhat understand if they said: "we are going to make allowances for those who have been convicted of...
 
Tags: government, marine corps, prison jump suits, felons, military upper echelon, worst offenses, doors, story breaks, decent salary
 
 
 
 
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Logging, Correlation and IT Search: An Analogy

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2008-06-06 17:00:00 by JJ in Security Uncorked