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'DVD Jon' offers content sharing Facebook app

2008-02-19 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
DVD Jon's new venture, DoubleTwist, has released beta versions of two applications to unlock music bought from Apple's iTunes Store
 
 
 
 
 
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What do the Cold Boot Crypto Attack, DVD Players, and MiFare tell us about the Future of Biometrics?

2008-03-26 00:16:43 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
 
Last week Slashdot pointed me to an interesting article in The Standard Understanding anonymity and the need for biometrics In fact, I found the article to be rather upsetting. Not because of the articles thesis that strong authentication through a national ID program would not necessarily pose a threat to privacy; but rather, because of their...
 
 
 
 
 
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DRM Scorecard Makes Me Wonder: The Media Industry and the TSA, Sadistic or Incompetent?

2007-08-02 08:19:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
Back in March, I posted about the media industry and the BORA principle , or break once, run anywhere. Info week has a DRM scorecard where the box score reads Hackers 1000, Industry 0 This all goes back to the simple fact that all DRM is based on encryption, and that its illogical to give someone the decryption key that is required to enable...
 
 
 
 
 
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Zune Killer App - Windows Media Center

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2007-11-26 21:55:40 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
I admit it, I did not buy a Zune last year when they were first released. I don't have a large music collection and I'm generally happy listening to the radio to get my music fix, or the digital music channels available from my cable company, if you will However, as some of you may realize from my previous postings (Vista Media Center Part 1 ,...
 
 
 
 
 
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STRIDE chart

2007-09-11 23:18:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
Adam Shostack here I've been meaning to talk more about what I actually do, which is help the teams within Microsoft who are threat modeling (for our boxed software) to do their jobs better. Better means faster, cheaper or more effectively. There are good reasons to optimize for different points on that spectrum (of better/faster/cheaper) at...
 
 
 
 
 
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Swedish Army Loses Classified Information on Memory Stick

2008-01-09 13:46:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Oops : The daily newspaper, Aftonbladet, turned the stick over to the Armed Forces on Thursday. The paper's editorial office obtained the memory stick from an individual who discovered it in a public computer center in Stockholm An employee of the Armed Forces has reported that the misplaced USB memory stick belongs to him. The employee...
 
 
 
 
 
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Visa Services Northwest caught throwing info in dumpster

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2008-01-28 16:23:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 1/25/08 Organization International Market Place Contractor/Consultant/Branch Visa Services Northwest Victims Visa Services Northwest customers Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Name, Social Security number, credit card information, and other personal details Breach Description Sensitive...
 
 
 
 
 
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Blu-ray Celebration Will be Short Lived

2008-02-24 09:21:47 by mcurphey in Mark Curphey - SecurityBuddha.com
 
I had no vested interested in the battle between HD-DVD and Blu-ray but watched out of interest to study how the techonomy operated. More importantly I was interested in how the techonomy is changing. Now Blu-ray has won the battle of the physical media formats, we can look to the period (in a few short
 
 
 
 
 
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UK gov't laptop with confidential disc sold on eBay

2008-02-28 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A laptop purchased on eBay recently arrived with a special bonus: Under the keyboard, a CD or DVD disc labeled "Home Office" and "Confidential
 
 
 
 
 
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Training People on Threat Modeling

2008-03-14 23:11:12 by sdl in