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More trustworthy election systems via SDL?

2008-02-04 23:34:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...jurisdictions Software Engineering . The software suffers from numerous programming errors, many of which have a high potential to introduce or exacerbate security weaknesses. These include buffer overflows, format string vulnerabilities, and type mismatch errors A deeper reading of the cryptographic concerns (page 29 in report) notes...
 
Tags: machine security concerns, security concerns, election systems, election, security, security researchers, election systems margin, margin, election management system
 
 
 
 
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Computer Misuse in Scotland

2008-02-14 20:25:22 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...jurisdictions the same HOWEVER as Clive points out for some currently unknown reason the Scots brought the first version of the amendments into force on 1st October 2007 with this statutory instrument So North of the Border the law is currently different: you can prosecuted for denial-of-service attacks and locked up for distributing hacking...
 
Tags: act, computer misuse act, computer misuse, justice act, crime act, scotland, law, law stands, offences stops
 
 
 
 
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Beware of regulatory reflexes and Metcalfian moles when you launch new Web 2.0 applications

2008-01-09 22:02:38 by Scott in Scott Wright's Security Views
 
Stephen J. Murdoch is a graduate student at Cambridge, and a prolific writer of papers regarding Internet security. He recently wrote article and article (click HERE) on censorship and shifting Internet borders. The piece reflects on how various jurisdictions have attempted to control or censor content deemed offensive, and how it has changed as...
 
Tags: piece reflects, internet security, article, censor content, prolific writer, internet borders, jurisdictions, papers, student
 
 
 
 
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Thoughts on OWASP Day San Jose/San Francisco

2007-09-11 08:39:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...jurisdictions All of the panelists in this area made two points Set a baseline policy that encompasses the vast majority of your requirements and implement it across the board. This way you don't have to continuously manage to specific privacy regulations as you've embodied them in your general policy Setting the privacy policies and...
 
Tags: privacy, privacy concerns, diverse privacy regulations, privacy policies, privacy considerations, specific privacy regulations, privacy proper, privacy regulations, panel discussion
 
 
 
 
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Seat Belt Usage and Compensating Behavior

2008-04-11 13:44:59 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...jurisdictions, we analyze how such laws, by influencing seat belt use, affect the incidence of traffic fatalities. Allowing for the endogeneity of seat belt usage, we find that such usage decreases overall traffic fatalities. The magnitude of this effect, however, is significantly smaller than the estimate used by the National Highway Traffic...
 
Tags: seat belt, seat belt usage, laws, seat belt laws, fatalities, traffic fatalities, inherent risk thermostat, risk, indirect adverse effect
 
 
 
 
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Waiting for "EuroSOX"

2008-04-03 11:41:37 by Posted By: Carsten Casper, Research Director in IT Leaders - Security and Risk Management
 
...jurisdictions within Europe. Noncompliant enterprises will be asked to explain their actions, instead of their CEOs being sent straight to jail. The only people who'll really benefit from the "EuroSOX" hype, with its current Peak of Inflated Expectations, are vendors trying to sell compliance tools that may or may not be appropriate to...
 
Tags: sox, eurosox, j-sox, internal controls, europe, key, proper risk management, key controls, noncompliant enterprises
 
 
 
 
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Dan Wallach on Electronic Voting Machines

2008-07-02 06:15:27 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...jurisdictions in Texas and elsewhere in the country will be using e-voting equipment this November with known security vulnerabilities, and the procedures and controls they are using will not be sufficient to either prevent or detect sophisticated attacks on their e-voting equipment. While there are procedures with the capability to detect...
 
Tags: dan wallach, attacks, excellent blog post, vendors, vendors behavior, equipment, procedures, machine companies, texass dres
 
 
 
 
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Midazolam as a Non-Lethal Weapon

2008-07-18 11:28:19 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...jurisdictions, police can inject midazolam into suspects to subdue them? "There is no research guideline. There is no validated protocol for this. There's not even a clear set of indications for when this is to be used except when people are agitated. By saying that it's done by the emergency medical personnel, they basically are trying to...
 
Tags: decision, paramedic decision, police decision, police, police function, view, view delirium, delirium, medical emergency
 
 
 
 
 
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