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Pentagon May Issue Pocket Lie Detectors to Afghan Soldiers

2008-04-14 12:57:47 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Lie detectors are pseudo-science at best, and even the Pentagon knows it: The Pentagon, in a PowerPoint presentation released to msnbc.com through a Freedom of Information Act request, says the PCASS is 82 to 90 percent accurate. Those are the only accuracy numbers that were sent up the chain of command at the Pentagon before the device was...
 
Tags: pentagon, measure accuracy, accuracy, pcass accuracy, pentagon studies, lie detectors, yellow screens, tests drops, pcass
 
 
 
 
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Kids and Lying

2008-02-29 07:09:12 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...lie . (Maybe it's a bit off the security topic, but with all my reading on the psychology of security, I don't think so.) So when do the 98 percent who think lying is wrong become the 98 percent who lie It starts very young. Indeed, bright kids -- those who do better on other academic indicators -- are able to start lying at 2 or 3. "Lying is...
 
Tags: kids, victoria talwar, bright kids, security, lie, talwar, security topic, assistant professor, percent
 
 
 
 
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Corporate Spying

2008-01-16 12:21:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...lieved to be larger than 4 petabytes (4,000 terabytes), to look for potential threats. It tracks customers who buy propane tanks, for example, or anyone who has fraudulently cashed a check, or anyone making bulk purchases of pre-paid cell phones, which could be tied to criminal activities. "If you try to buy more than three cell phones at one...
 
Tags: agents, intelligence agents, wal-mart, off-duty police officers, officers, wal-mart employee fired, cell-phone calls, phone calls, obtain
 
 
 
 
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Top 11 Reasons to Hate Logs

2008-04-01 10:29:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...lie to you, you hate it. Logs do lie too (see 'false positives') - and they are hated too Transport error 202 message repeated 3456 times.' Niiiiice. Now go fix that! Fix what? Ah, hate the log obscurity Why are there 47 different ways to log that "connection from A to B was established OK?" Or 21 way to say "user logged in OK?" No, really?...
 
Tags: logs, logs multiply, bad logs, log, log source, log obscurity, log data, lie, people lie
 
 
 
 
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Communicating Risk & Macs Can Do Anything

2008-03-17 13:29:33 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...lie. Not that youre going to lie, but if youre building dashboards with your KPIs for InfoSec - be sure to invest time into getting the visualizations right MACS CAN DO ANYTHING Its finally getting to be spring here in the US - and that turns my eye towards baseball. I like following the discussions between those who quantify player...
 
Tags: information security agency, information security, security, security amrit covers, chicago tribune, junk charts weblog, weblog, long-time chicago tribune, risk
 
 
 
 
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Careful before you click that URL.

2008-07-22 23:51:34 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...lie about these things, they may lie about others. For instance, we recently came across one which claims to have won a number of awards, including the PC Magazine Editors Choice
 
Tags: review site, pcmags security section, beware fake anti-mailware, magazine editors choice, site, antivirus programs, visit, lie, malicious programs
 
 
 
 
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Card Wars: The Phantom Menace

2008-08-05 15:06:16 by Mike Bond in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...lie and cheat following all sorts of agendas; just around the corner the missing piece of the jigsaw may lie, which reveals the truth behind the case. And there is the totally separate matter of who should suffer the loss in the interim, whilst the truth remains unclear. Liability for disputed withdrawals is the most hotly contested issue of...
 
Tags: card, phantom, real, real card, card details, phantom menace, phantom withdrawal, transaction, application transaction counter
 
 
 
 
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Speaking of Security Podcast #78

2007-10-01 00:00:00 by Podcast Producers in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...lie to present a holistic view of risk related to information across the enterprise
 
Tags: information risk management, risk, information, senior manger, financial institution, holistic view, risks lie, rsa announces, boston
 
 
 
 
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Blue Box #71: VLAN Hopping, SIP Digest vulnerability, VoIP security hype, Skype security, Google's latest moves, listener comments and much more...

2007-12-17 19:59:44 by HASH0x89e9d58 in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
...lier VoIP-News.com: Vonage Security Problems May Be Just the Start The Ethical Hacker Network: Fun with Online VoIP Hacking SearchVoIP: Unified communications security vulnerabilities SecurityPark: Seeing through the VoIP security hype The Guardian: Why VoIP is the next target for spammers Skype Blog: Skype for Mac on Leopard (note comments...
 
Tags: voip, voip security hype, online voip, voip supplier, voip-news, voip security news, security, voip security industry, skype security
 
 
 
 
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Recent Symantec and IBM vulnerabilities, giblets, banned APIs and the SDL

2008-01-04 23:37:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...lie in a small number of file parsers used in many applications created by a third party vendor. As you probably know, file parsing vulnerabilities are very common, and even though the number of such bugs has dropped significantly in Microsoft products, in the past we had many. Thankfully, the SDL's fuzzing requirements have significantly...
 
Tags: linker sdl requirements, sdl requirements, ibm, sdl, requirements, symantec<