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Security Matters: I've Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch

2008-06-26 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...kill switch installed on airplanes, and is worried about potential enemies installing kill switches on their own equipment Microsoft is doing some of the most creative thinking along these lines, with something it's calling " Digital Manners Policies ." According to its patent application , DMP-enabled devices would accept broadcast "orders"...
 
Tags: security, wireless devices, devices, prevent, prevent security cameras, difficult security, cameras, prevent students, difficult
 
 
 
 
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Kill Switches and Remote Control

2008-07-01 06:48:37 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...kill switch installed on airplanes, and is worried about potential enemies installing kill switches on their own equipment. Microsoft is doing some of the most creative thinking along these lines, with something it's calling " Digital Manners Policies ." According to its patent application , DMP-enabled devices would accept broadcast "orders"...
 
Tags: wireless devices, devices, devices inevitably, digital manners policies, prevent, prevent security cameras, difficult security, cameras, prevent students
 
 
 
 
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From the Eye of a Legal Storm, Murdoch's Satellite-TV Hacker Tells All

2008-05-30 15:00:00 by Kim Zetter in Wired Security
 
...killed the cards in their set-top boxes. Ereiser needed someone to fix the cards There was serious black-market money on the line. In Canada, where pirating of U.S. satellite services wasn't considered illegal until 2002, syndicates of dealers did enough business that they could afford to chip in about $50,000 to hire a programmer to reverse...
 
Tags: smart cards piled, cards, nds cards, access cards, sample directv cards, directv cards, smart cards, nds smart cards, nds
 
 
 
 
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Fear Is Unhealthy

2008-01-17 07:35:09 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...kill large numbers at once because these events affect the whole community and damage the social fabric It doesn't surprise me that fear of terrorism is more harmful than actual terrorism. That's the whole point of terrorism: an amplification of fear through the mass media Refuse to be terrorized : The point of terrorism is to cause terror,...
 
Tags: people terrorists kill, terrorists, terrorism, actual terrorism, kill, people, fear, million people, fearful people
 
 
 
 
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Hunting Down Spyware and Adware

2007-08-01 19:28:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...kill spyware and adware infections in their computers There are a number of ways to kill or remove spyware infections. Most of them involve easy enough steps. However, there are times when the computer has been too infected by a multitude of spyware programs that the only solution that remains is to format the hard drive of the computer. To...
 
Tags: spyware, spyware programs attach, spyware programs, infections, remove spyware infections, spyware software, quarantine spyware utilities, anti-spyware scanners, adware
 
 
 
 
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Limiting Process Privileges Should Be Easier

2007-11-09 10:00:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...kill(-1,SIGKILL), and exit(0), and then check that the child exited normally Prohibit kill(), ptrace(), etc., by setting gid and uid to the target uid Prohibit fork(), by setting the current and maximum RLIMIT NPROC limits to 0 Set the desired limits on memory allocation and other resource allocation Run the rest of the program If doing all...
 
Tags: process, uid, effective process sandbox, kill, prohibit kill, uid range, prohibit, privileges, target uid
 
 
 
 
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Heartbroken mother of slain children speaks out about the Montgommery County court system

2008-04-06 19:39:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...kill himself failed. He has been charged with first degree murder Understandably, Mrs. Castillo takes little comfort from his arrest. She feels that the court system needs to better understand mental illness and her case is living testimony to this. Mark Castillo had been diagnosed with depression and had been invouluntarily committed to a...
 
Tags: castillo, mark castillo, amy castillo, court system, dangerous behavior, degree murder, castillo takes, baltimore hotel bathtub, slow bogged-down system
 
 
 
 
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Goodbye IE6

2006-10-17 15:01:13 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...kill iexplore.exe to make it stop. I believe it is fully-patched In my mind the appearance of this problem is correlated with the appearance of two new aggressive JavaScript interfaces: The much-improved BlogLines feed selector, and the very-irritating Yahoo Finance streaming quotes feature (which slows down every refresh even when set to...
 
Tags: xpsp sp2 gdr, window contents, window, aggressive javascript interfaces, microsoft internet explorer, firefox andor ie7, bloglines feed selector, memory corruption, render correctly
 
 
 
 
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NY STAR: An accident waiting to happen

2006-03-02 22:37:31 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...kill Update 3/7/2006 see also: The public servants at the Ohio secretary of state insist on treating documents that pass through their hands as public despite embedded SSNs Update 4/11/2006 see also: Broward County (FL
 
Tags: information, store information, income information, personal information, personal financial information, public, public record agency, public information, assessors
 
 
 
 
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DIY Fake MSN Client Stealing Passwords

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2008-01-17 10:06:24 by HASH0x8b6b58c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge