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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
 
In eerily similar cases in the Netherlands and the United States, courts have recently grappled with the computer-security norm of "full disclosure," asking whether researchers should be permitted to disclose details of a fare-card vulnerability that allows people to ride the subway for free The "Oyster card" used on the London Tube was at issue...
 
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
 
In eerily similar cases in the Netherlands and the United States, courts have recently grappled with the computer-security norm of "full disclosure," asking whether researchers should be permitted to disclose details of a fare-card vulnerability that allows people to ride the subway for free The "Oyster card" used on the London Tube was at issue...
 
Tags: computer security improves, security improves, computer security, security, mit security researchers, security devices, security holes, disclosure, security properly
 
 
 
 
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Air Force Aims for 'Full Control' of 'Any and All' Computers

2008-05-13 20:00:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
The Air Force wants a suite of hacker tools, to give it "access" to -- and "full control" of -- any kind of computer there is. And once the info warriors are in, the Air Force wants them to keep tabs on their "adversaries' information infrastructure completely undetected
 
Tags: air force, information infrastructure completely, info warriors, hacker tools, control, tabs, adversaries, access, suite
 
 
 
 
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Air Force Aims for 'Full Control' of 'Any and All' Computers

2008-05-14 20:10:50 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
The Air Force wants a suite of hacker tools, to give it "access" to--and "full control" of--any kind of computer there is. And once the info warriors are in, the Air Force wants them to keep tabs on their "adversaries' information infrastructure completely undetected." The government is growing increasingly interested in waging war online
 
Tags: air force, information infrastructure completely, info warriors, hacker tools, war online, control, government, tabs, adversaries
 
 
 
 
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Russia's 'Full Scale Invasion' of Georgia

2008-08-09 22:30:00 by Noah Shachtman in Wired Security
 
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili says "Russia has launched a full scale military invasion." He's calling for "an immediate ceasefire" in a conflict that Russian officials claim has killed 2,000 and left 30,000 homeless
 
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Security is not all about Security Updates

2007-12-17 12:58:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
Hi, Michael here I'm always asked "How can you claim the SDL is working when Microsoft still issues security updates?" So I want to make sure people understand the goals of the SDL and perhaps more importantly, the non-goals There are three major security-related disciplines here at Microsoft and people outside the company often confuse the...
 
Tags: security, end-user security documentation, security response, fix security bugs, response, security fix, implementation vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities, security feature development
 
 
 
 
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Oklahoma State University Parking Services server is compromised

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2008-05-15 15:08:54 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 5/14/08 Organization Oklahoma State University ("OSU Contractor/Consultant/Branch OSU Parking & Transit Services Victims OSU faculty, staff and students who had purchased a parking permit between July 2002 and March 2008 Number Affected as many as 70,000 Types of Data names, addresses and...
 
Tags: server, sensitive personal information, personal information, information, server administrators, server immediately, server prior, database server, confidential information
 
 
 
 
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UltimateBet cheating goes undetected for almost 21 months

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2008-06-04 10:55:17 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 5/29/08 Organization Tokwiro Enterprises ENRG Tokwiro Enterprises Enrg" is a recognized Mohawk owned and controlled, gaming sole proprietorship, presently undergoing a licencing process with the "Kahnawake Gaming Commission" ("KGC"), which was itself established on the 10th day of June, 1996....
 
Tags: ultimatebet, tokwiro enterprises enrg, tokwiro enterprises, ultimatebet issues statement, ultimatebet prior, ultimatebet subsequently, ultimatebet immediately removes, ultimatebet servers, ultimatebet statement
 
 
 
 
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In-Flight Broadband Flies Tomorrow in Test

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2008-06-24 19:51:25 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
American Airlines will fly its first commercial round-trip with Aircell's Gogo service active tomorrow: On Wednesday, 25-June-2008, in-flight broadband briefly flickers back to life with a JFK to Los Angeles round-trip flown by American on which passengers will get free use of the onboard, in-flight Internet service via Wi-Fi. The test flight is...
 
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