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TrueCrypt's Deniable File System

2008-07-18 06:56:02 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Together with Tadayoshi Kohno, Steve Gribble, and three of their students at the University of Washington, I have a new paper that breaks the deniable encryption feature of TrueCrypt version 5.1a. Basically, modern operating systems leak information like mad, making deniability a very difficult requirement to satisfy. ABSTRACT: We examine the...
 
Tags: truecrypt, deniable file system, file system, truecrypt version, system, truecrypt dfs, deniable, truecrypt disk-encryption software, systems
 
 
 
 
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File Integrity Monitoring: Secure Your Virtual and Physical IT Environments

2008-08-25 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Source: Tripwire) Looking for a File Integrity Monitoring Solution? With the numerous servers, devices and applications organizations rely on to support their everyday business, outages and security breaches due to poor IT configurations are unacceptable. In addition, many organizations must now prove compliance with standards like PCI DSS...
 
Tags: file integrity, applications organizations rely, organizations, enables organizations, security breaches due, solution, undesirable configuration change, maintain compliance, numerous servers
 
 
 
 
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File Systems and thumb drives: Choosing between FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS to get a faster USB Flash Drive

2007-10-06 21:22:58 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
File Systems and thumb drives: Choosing between FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS to get a faster USB Flash Drive What file system should you choose to speed up your thumb drive? Read on
 
Tags: thumb, file systems, thumb drive, ntfs, fat32, fat16, file system, choose, speed
 
 
 
 
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Social Security Administration lists live people in the Death Master File

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2008-07-07 08:44:12 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 6/26/08 Organization U.S. Government Contractor/Consultant/Branch Social Security Administration Victims United States citizens Number Affected more than 20,000 Types of Data Name, date of birth and Social Security number Breach Description The Social Security Administration inadvertently...
 
Tags: information, secure information, social security, social security administration, personal information, information online, dmf information, death master file, ssa
 
 
 
 
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Setting file ACLs with PowerShell part 5

2008-01-09 04:53:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
In my previous post in this series, I showed how easy it is to work with enumerations in PowerShell. Here's the code I've been walking through in this series dacl = (dir foo.txt).GetAccessControl newRule = New-Object Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule "keith", Modify, Allow modified = $false dacl.ModifyAccessRule("Add", $newRule,...
 
Tags: object, new-object security, dir foo, txt, series, code, acl, dacl, newrule
 
 
 
 
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Harvard Web site hacked, database on file-sharing site

2008-02-18 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473724 in Network World on Security
 
One of Harvard University's Web sites appeared on Monday to have been hacked, with its contents appearing on the BitTorrent file-sharing network
 
Tags: harvard university, web sites, network, bittorrent, contents, monday
 
 
 
 
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Credant boosts system file encryption for laptops

2008-02-22 00:00:00 by John Cox in Network World on Security
 
Credant Technologies adds system file encryption to its Windows-based laptop data defense software, Credant Mobile Guardian
 
Tags: system file encryption, credant mobile guardian, credant technologies
 
 
 
 
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How Much File Sharing Traffic Travels the Net?

2008-05-06 12:00:41 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
How much of the traffic on the internet is peer-to-peer file trading? Everyone seems to agree it represents a lot of the traffic, but the truth is no one knows (with the possible exception of the ISPs and backbone providers in the middle, and they aren't telling or sharing raw data
 
Tags: traffic, peer-to-peer file, raw data, backbone providers, middle, isps, lot, internet, represents
 
 
 
 
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File-sharing breach at investment firm highlights dangers of P2P networks -- again

2008-07-09 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
An investment firm in Virginia, with Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer among its clients, is the latest company to suffer a data breach because of an employee's use of a file-sharing network
 
Tags: investment firm, supreme court justice, data breach, suffer, virginia, network, breyer, employee, clients