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DriverScanner: Keep your drivers up to date while managing incompatibilities

2008-10-28 07:45:36 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
Keeping drivers up-to-date can be a hit-or-miss hassle, involving performance issues or driver compatibility problems which cause the target system to crash. DriveScanner can help
 
Tags: driver compatibility, performance issues, drivers, target system, hit-or-miss hassle, drivescanner, crash
 
 
 
 
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Vista SP1 Goes To Manufacturing

2008-02-04 11:18:17 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...drivers which were improperly designed. According to Microsoft, these drivers did not follow installation procedures according to guidelines. Fixing the problem will involve reinstalling the drivers, which can be done through Windows Update and other mechanisms, but in the meantime when Windows Update begins offering SP1 to Vista users it...
 
Tags: sp1, windows vista blog, windows vista, vista sp1, microsoft download center, download center, windows, download sp1, device drivers
 
 
 
 
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Vista SP1 Goes to Manufacturing

2008-02-04 11:18:17 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...drivers that were improperly designed. According to Microsoft, these drivers did not follow installation procedures according to guidelines. Fixing the problem will involve reinstalling the drivers, which can be done through Windows Update and other mechanisms, but in the meantime when Windows Update begins offering SP1 to Vista users it will...
 
Tags: sp1, windows vista blog, windows vista, vista sp1, microsoft download center, download center, windows, download sp1, device drivers
 
 
 
 
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Social Security Numbers Displayed On Maryland Courts Website

2008-08-13 16:41:06 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Drivers in Virginia and Washington, D.C. whose drivers licenses have their Social Security numbers and who got traffic tickets in Maryland will find those numbers and other personal information on a Maryland state Web site. Maryland has never used Social Security numbers when issuing drivers licenses, but Virginia and the District have. Traffic...
 
Tags: social security, maryland, drivers, drivers licenses, virginia, traffic citations, personal information, web site, traffic tickets
 
 
 
 
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Increased Interest in Device-Specific Strong Authentication

2007-09-14 00:00:00 by Sean Kline in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...drivers for this are longstanding, such as increased proliferation of mobile devices to remote employees, partners and consumers Ericsson 1 predicts that global mobile subscriptions will reach 5.5 billion by 2012. Since people are used to carrying phones, these mobile devices become very convenient containers for strong authentication...
 
Tags: mobile devices, credentials, strong authentication credentials, mobile phones, secure remote access, global mobile subscriptions, strong authentication mechanisms, phones, two-factor authentication
 
 
 
 
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More on Driver Certificate Revocation

2007-08-03 07:54:37 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...drivers here. So I'm guessing that those only occurr at boot time too. Microsoft's analogies to patches, which also often require reboots, work to a point. You might get a notification from automatic updates that you need to reboot because of a patch, but you might never know that a cert is revoked, and go a month or more before rebooting....
 
Tags: revocation, checks, atsiv revocation, verification checks, verisign revocation list, operations, user mode operations, verisign, boot-time checks
 
 
 
 
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Motor Vehicle Crashes and Complex Event Processing

2007-12-31 03:19:30 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...drivers, traffic, roads, vehicles, and the environment Maiou, Song and Mallick go on to say that studies have shown that risk estimation using hierarchical Bayes models has several advantages over estimation using classical methods. They also point out that the overall strength of the Bayesian approach is its ability to structure complicated...
 
Tags: motor vehicle crashes, complex event, traffic, manage traffic, joon jin song, song, roadway traffic crash, bayes methods, hierarchical bayes methods
 
 
 
 
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Stolen UK Ministry of Defence laptop affects up to 600,000

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2008-01-20 14:51:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...drivers license details, family details, doctors addresses, National Health Service numbers, and banking details Some records contained nothing more than a name, and others contained all of the information noted above. The information collected was dependent upon how far a military candidate went in the enlistment process Breach...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, sensitive personal information, information, extensive personal data, personal data, personal, information held, data protection practices
 
 
 
 
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Plan now to eliminate "power users" from your domains

2008-02-11 18:03:17 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...drivers. And if you can install software and drivers, then you can elevate yourself to Administrator or SYSTEM. Vista includes a signed installer that allows standard users to install packages signed by a trusted root. (The "Trusted Installer" is a service that has a SID, so you'll see it in the permissions list on various objects throughout...
 
Tags: power, power users, powerful, too-powerful power users, rights install software, software, install, install packages, install software