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DefCon: Boston Subway Officials Sue to Stop Talk on Fare Card Hacks

2008-08-09 15:00:00 by Kim Zetter in Wired Security
 
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority files a federal lawsuit on Friday seeking to block three MIT students from discussing security vulnerabilities in Boston's fare card system at DefCon
 
Tags: fare card system, boston, mit students, security vulnerabilities, federal lawsuit, defcon, friday, block
 
 
 
 
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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
 
...fare-card vulnerability that allows people to ride the subway for free The "Oyster card" used on the London Tube was at issue in the Dutch case, and a similar fare card used on the Boston "T" was the center of the U.S. case. The Dutch court got it right, and the American court, in Boston, got it wrong from the start -- despite facing an...
 
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
 
...fare-card vulnerability that allows people to ride the subway for free The "Oyster card" used on the London Tube was at issue in the Dutch case, and a similar fare card used on the Boston "T" was the center of the U.S. case. The Dutch court got it right, and the American court, in Boston, got it wrong from the start -- despite facing an...
 
Tags: computer security improves, security improves, computer security, security, mit security researchers, security devices, security holes, disclosure, security properly
 
 
 
 
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Passenger Says He Hacked Windows In New York Taxi Display Screen

2007-12-28 14:02:19 by Editor in Security Links
 
...fare with a credit card. A VeriFone Transportation Systems spokesman told InformationWeek Thursday that passengers credit card data is encrypted and isnt stored locally, so it wasnt compromised. He also said the cab had an outdated modem, used while the city tested the display systems Billy Chasen posted photos on his blog earlier this month...
 
Tags: display, display systems vendor, display systems, credit card, card, sensitive information, information, display system, credit card information
 
 
 
 
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Shimel - the NAC prophet?

2008-02-29 07:13:27 by HASH0x8b6a3a0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...fare over the months to come.To be fair I have to say that we are NAP partners our self with Microsoft and have out own plans around NAP support and extensions. My prediction is that some of these folks will find out that NAP doesn't leave them enough of the pie to live on and they will quickly start complaining about Microsoft relegating...
 
Tags: nac, nac prophet, nac band wagon, nac standards, nap support, nap, nap functionality fare, microsoft server, server
 
 
 
 
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Obama's Pet Projects: Lasers, Hybrid Hummers

2008-03-13 23:40:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
In addition to the standard fare, Sen. Barack Obama's legislative earmarks, which were released today, include money for laser development and the conversion of military equipment to fuel cells and hybrid power
 
Tags: hybrid power, fuel cells, military equipment, include money, barack obama, standard fare, legislative earmarks, laser development, addition
 
 
 
 
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BART Wi-Fi Access Moves Closer in Bay Area

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2008-04-09 06:39:32 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...fare from many companies, to pre-announce deals, but a BART official confirmed the state of negotiations in this Sacramento Bee article. I had a long talk with the WiFi Rail folks a few months ago, and they sent me some fascinating video of a live four-way video chat with three participants communicating from moving trains Their technical...
 
Tags: wifi rail, wifi rail relies, bee, sacramento bee article, contract, sign contract, wifi rail folks, overlaid wi-fi signals, months ago
 
 
 
 
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Where are the Security Dashboards for Cloud Services?

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2008-04-17 18:55:44 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
...fare - traffic lights to show availability for each Amazon service with a historical view available at the bottom This is good and all but where is the security dashboard? Id like to know their security service is operating normally. Are they hacker safe I can dream right Users of salesforce.com are not dreaming when they surf over to...
 
Tags: availability, service availability dashboard, dashboard, security dashboard, security metrics, service health dashboard, support offerings, amazon web services, support
 
 
 
 
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Oh No! Security Metrics!

2008-04-18 12:43:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...fare better in the real world The second vulnerability metric compares Microsoft with other vendors. This is an interesting metric, but our group is full of engineers, so we pay little attention to the figures because there is very little we can influence. The post Mr. Lindstrom refers to cited those vulnerability figures I use to point out...
 
Tags: bugs, implementation bugs, fewer security bugs, fewer, security bugs include, security, metrics, security metrics, security bugs
 
 
 
 
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Nobody Is That Dumb ... Oh, Wait X

2008-05-05 14:26:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -