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Boston Court's Meddling With 'Full Disclosure' Is Unwelcome

2008-08-21 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...encourages more kidnappings. Yet in every kidnapping case, there's someone -- a spouse, a parent, an employer -- with a good reason why, in this one case, we should make an exception The reason we want researchers to publish vulnerabilities is because that's how security improves. But in every case there's someone -- the Massachusetts Bay...
 
Tags: computer security improves, security improves, computer security, security, mit security researchers, security devices, security holes, disclosure, security properly
 
 
 
 
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Full Disclosure and the Boston Farecard Hack

2008-08-26 06:04:49 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...encourages more kidnappings. Yet in every kidnapping case, there's someone -- a spouse, a parent, an employer -- with a good reason why, in this one case, we should make an exception The reason we want researchers to publish vulnerabilities is because that's how security improves. But in every case there's someone -- the Massachusetts Bay...
 
Tags: computer security improves, security improves, computer security, security, mit security researchers, security devices, security holes, disclosure, security properly
 
 
 
 
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Auditing open source software

2007-10-08 16:13:00 by Panayiotis Mavrommatis in Google Online Security Blog
 
...encourages its employees to contribute back to the open source community, and there is no exception in Google's Security Team. Let's look at some interesting open source vulnerabilities that were located and fixed by members of Google's Security team. It is interesting to classify and aggregate the code flaws leading to the vulnerabilities,...
 
Tags: image, malicious image file, libtiff image, values, jpeg image, tiff header values, source, evil tiff file, evil
 
 
 
 
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Speaking of Security Podcast #62

2007-05-14 00:00:00 by Podcast Producers in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...encourages all amateur movie-makers to enter You-Tube-like shorts for Inforati Video Awards (IVA) contest. The best entries in three categories will earn prizes (not to mention fame and bragging rights) for their creators, with the winners announced at EMC World in Orlando May 21-24
 
Tags: paul joyal checks, blogger shannon kellogg, enter you-tube-like shorts, inforati video awards, emc world, emc encourages, amateur movie-makers, mention fame, orlando
 
 
 
 
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Supporting Complex Passwords

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2007-12-04 08:56:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
...encourages people to reduce the strength of the password that controls access to many different Microsoft properties I didn't have time to try to figure out exactly what this dialog is choking on, but when it chokes it happens so quickly that my guess is that some internal validation on the password is causing it to fail. It doesn't appear to...
 
Tags: passwords, complex passwords, complex, passwords hit, password temporarily, temporarily, password, strong passwords, password minder
 
 
 
 
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Giving Drivers Licenses to Illegal Immigrants

2008-02-13 05:57:39 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...encourages them to remain illegally in this country. Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox late last year issued an opinion that licenses could be issued only to legal state residents, calling it "one more tool in our initiative to bolster Michigan's border and document security In reality, we are a much more secure nation if we do issue...
 
Tags: licenses, driver licenses, illegal immigrants, licenses helps, licenses andor, deny licenses, driver, law, respects law enforcement
 
 
 
 
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Is CAPTCHA a long term fix?

2008-02-08 08:51:23 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
Although the purpose of CAPTCHAs is to prevent spammers and other malicious types from creating large numbers of email, social networking, or other accounts, the value of these accounts to the financial goals of many attackers encourages them to find ways around CATPCHA controls
 
Tags: catpcha controls, prevent spammers, malicious types, financial goals, attackers encourages, accounts, captchas, purpose, social
 
 
 
 
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Lost Bank of Ireland laptops affect roughly 10,000 customers

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2008-04-22 09:35:39 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...encourages a mobile workforce. Do you think that there is a good (more than 50/50) chance that some of the laptops may be used to work with highly confidential information? Do you think there is a good chance that one of these laptops may be lost or stolen? Obviously the answer to both questions is "yes". Why then are these laptops not...
 
Tags: bank, customers, information security, information, ireland, confidential information, ireland life option, ireland life, bank account details
 
 
 
 
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BT Encourages Businesses to Open Up Wi-Fi for OpenZone Expansion

2008-04-22 13:51:44 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
BT will upgrade its business customers broadband modem firmware to allow public hotspot service: This is a very, very interesting move on the part of the UK's giant telecom provider. The company will upgrade the firmware for its BT Business Total Broadband customers, which number 170,000. By flipping a switch, the business's modem will create an...
 
Tags: business, business customers receive, openzone, business plan assures, hotspot service, public hotspot service, openzone subscription, network, critique fon
 
 
 
 
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We're From the Government and Were Here to Protect You

2008-04-15 12:02:05 by Posted By: Kristen Noakes-Fry, Research Director in IT Leaders - Security and Risk Management