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End to end trust

2008-04-09 15:12:21 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
While the rest of the security industry is currently living it up at the RSA conference , I'm in Vienna looking out of the window of the airport lounge in hope that my flight home might both arrive and depart on time. Would I prefer to be in San Francisco? Yes! On saying that, I do like Vienna - in fact, it's one of my favorite cities. Friendly...
 
Tags: online identity issue, identity, internet anonymity, internet, scott, scott charney, current rsa conference, rsa conference, pass identity claims
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft launches 'End to End Trust' call to action, observers skeptical

2008-04-09 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
In his keynote address at the RSA Conference here, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie sought to rally the high-tech industry and its customers to an idea Microsoft is calling "End to End Trust," a system for the Internet where identity claims can be validated according to sound security principles
 
Tags: microsoft, sound security principles, idea microsoft, trust, high-tech industry, chief research, rsa conference, identity claims, keynote address
 
 
 
 
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Scantegrity: End-to-End Voter-Verifiable Optical- Scan Voting

2008-05-22 14:32:01 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
Scantegrity is a security enhancement for optical scan voting systems. It's part of an emerging class of "end-to-end" independent election verification systems that permit each voter to verify that his or her ballot was correctly recorded and counted. On the Scantegrity ballot, each candidate position is paired with a random letter. Election...
 
Tags: scantegrity, scantegrity ballot, ballot, random letter, paper audit records, letter, security enhancement, position, legislative proposals
 
 
 
 
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Mobile Post: The End of Muni-Fi As We Know It

2008-05-16 15:29:53 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
MetroFi's plan to sell or shutter its networks spells end of first muni-Fi era: But it's not the end of municipal wireless
 
Tags: municipal wireless, networks spells, muni-fi era, metrofi, shutter, plan
 
 
 
 
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Société Générale plans to close loopholes by year end

2008-05-23 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b3dbdc in Network World on Security
 
French bank Société Générale expects to have remedies in place by year end for the technical and procedural flaws that allowed rogue trader Jérôme Kerviel to build a fraudulent trading position that cost the bank 4.9 billion (US$7.25 billion
 
Tags: procedural flaws, billion, cost, fraudulent, position, technical, us7, bank, remedies
 
 
 
 
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Will Idiocy Ever End?

2008-06-25 06:15:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
So, I just came back from FIRST2008 and a typical conference discussion over beer has turned - again! - to academic security research I lamented and ranted and rambled about it ( here , here , here ), but I am still shocked. I come from academic background myself and it is unthinkable to me that a research physicist today will write a thesis on...
 
Tags: research, academic security research, people, people tackle real, bizarre crap continues, typical conference discussion, research physicist, academic security papers, fast flux networks
 
 
 
 
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TriGeo's SIM is upgraded with higher-end features

2008-06-30 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473a38 in Network World on Security
 
TriGeo's SIM platform is a collection of technologies that have historically been targeted less at the enterprise and more at small-to-midsized businesses (SMB) and the company contends it wants to keep its focus on the lower end. However, some recent additions have brought significantly more functionality to the product, making it comparable to...
 
Tags: sim platform, recent additions, company contends, trigeo, businesses, enterprise, technologies, comparable, significantly
 
 
 
 
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Nigeria aims to end mobile phone theft

2008-07-01 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b46ccc in Network World on Security
 
Mobile phone theft in Nigeria could become a thing of the past by the end of the year, according to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC
 
Tags: mobile phone theft, nigerian communications commission, nigeria, ncc, past
 
 
 
 
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Weapons-Grade Lasers by the End of '08?

2008-09-02 20:34:00 by Noah Shachtman in Wired Security
 
Defense contractor Northrop Grumman is promising the Pentagon that it'll have weapons-grade electric lasers by the end of 2008. Which means honest-to-goodness energy weapons might actually become a military reality, after decades of fruitless searching
 
Tags: weapons-grade electric lasers, energy weapons, military reality, pentagon, decades, fruitless
 
 
 
 
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RSA 2008 Keynote: Craig Mundie