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More trustworthy election systems via SDL?

2008-02-04 23:34:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...examples of elections with extremely close results, where the winners margin of victory was perhaps smaller than the election systems margin of error. The term Hanging Chads , from the 2000 U.S Presidential election , is now part of the American vocabulary, and locally here in Washington State our last gubernatorial election in 2004 required...
 
Tags: machine security concerns, security concerns, election systems, election, security, security researchers, election systems margin, margin, election management system
 
 
 
 
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The C-I-A Triad weighed and found wanting

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2007-04-12 04:54:18 by Perry Carpenter in Security Renaissance
...examples of a loss of possession usually include the loss of laptop computers or PDAs containing customer or employee data (e.g. SSNs, credit card numbers, personal health information, etc Authenticity : Validity, conformance, and genuineness of information.The quality of authenticity is readily understood. As the above definition suggests,...
 
Tags: information security, information, parkerian hexad, parkerian hexad model, control information, principles, security principles, personal health information, parkerian hexad augments
 
 
 
 
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Loving customers frustrate security firms too

2008-06-13 19:45:37 by HASH0x8bfd9e8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...examples of how security vendors just don't "show the love" to customers and prospective customers, with the result being lost business. Roger highlights three examples 1. Making renewals a manual process with those annoying phone trees . I agree, when I hear the press 1 for this and press 2 for this, my blood starts to boil. There is no...
 
Tags: security, security firms, customers, product, product sits, favorite product, prospective customers, software vendor, vendor
 
 
 
 
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Event Tracking Google Style

2008-07-22 19:46:05 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...Examples of these events are, interacting with a Flash player, a AJAX widget or an audio player. In the old GA,webbies could track event-data as a pageview. However, becauseevent trackingusing crude pageviews is not very effective,GAaddednew functionality they refer to as Event Tracking There are 4 components in the GA events data model;...
 
Tags: event, data model, events data model, track event-data, complex event, google, single event objects, model, objects
 
 
 
 
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Forget the IPhone, Give me the JPhone

2007-07-25 21:56:46 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
 
...examples of this. I like the "Chocolate" and the Sony Ericsson W600i, for example Physical number pad. The Nokia N series and the W600i are both good examples of having a good number pad, without a full keyboard NO full keyboard. I've got one and don't use it. I don't want to type email messages or IMs on my phone, but if I have to, a soft...
 
Tags: actual phone, phone, stylish phone, phone vendor, phone vendors, smart phone, keyboard, soft keyboard, change
 
 
 
 
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Common Criteria and answering the question 'Is it Safe'

2007-12-20 16:57:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...examples where useful protection profiles have been created. CC as currently applied is arguably deficient is in two ways: 1) PPs dont currently exist for many categories of products (Mobile devices and instant messaging applications for example). 2) An evaluation is not internationally required to evaluate a given product against a PP...
 
Tags: criteria, fails, common criteria fails, common criteria, common criteria arguably, common, arguably, arguably deficient, security
 
 
 
 
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Links for 2008-01-16 [del.icio.us]

2008-01-17 00:00:00 by Editor in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Examples of Disruptive Innovation/Technology in the Security Space Rational Survivability: Security and Disruptive Innovation Part III: Examples of Disruptive Innovation/Technology in the Security Space SaaS is a really interesting disruptive element to the traditional approach of deploying applications and services; so much so that in many...
 
Tags: security space saas, security space, security, disruptive innovation, information security risks, disruptive, rational survivability, security altogether, disruptive element
 
 
 
 
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On Time-Series Analysis with Strict Determinism

2008-03-30 03:24:06 by Greg Reemler in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...examples (I would argue thatthese aresimple event processing, not complex event processing examples)are not rooted in event processingscenarios that require looking for causal linkages between seemingly unrelated events; for example, debugging complex distributed systems or detecting fraud over long periods of time where sliding time windows...
 
Tags: time, time-series analysis, cloudy event-causality relationships, event, complex event, complex, strict determinism, sql epapproach, sql
 
 
 
 
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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
 
...examples Defeated copy protection on DVDs ( more & more info Cold Boot Crypto Attack on hard disk encryption ( more info MiFare RFID Cards ( more info Skimming devices attached to ATM machines to steal card and PIN data ( more info Of course, all of these systems worked in the lab. But when a security system is widely deployed, it has to...
 
Tags: biometric authentication, biometric authentication infrastructure, biometric authentication challenge, tamper-proof biometric authentication, authentication, authentication device, mifare, tamper, biometrics