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PED vulnerability paper receives Most Practical Paper award at Oakland

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2008-05-21 09:56:48 by Saar Drimer in Light Blue Touchpaper
In February, Steven Murdoch, Ross Anderson and I reported our findings on system-level failures of widely deployed PIN Entry Devices (PED) and the Chip and PIN scheme as a whole. Steven is in Oakland presenting the work described in our paper at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy ( slides We are very pleased that we are the recipients of...
 
Tags: paper, practical paper award, pin entry devices, ieee symposium, ped, ross anderson, immediately improve, current environments, pin scheme
 
 
 
 
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Power Outages Are A Major Risk That Most Companies Overlook

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2008-07-10 17:31:34 by Stephanie Balaouras in Security & Risk Management
TechCrunchIT reported today that a Rackspace data center went down for several hours during the evening due to a power grid failure. Because Rackspace is a managed service provider (MSP), the downtime affected several businesses hosted in the data center When companies think of disaster recovery and downtime, they typically think of catastrophic...
 
Tags: prevent power failures, failures, data center, recovery data center, backup power, backup power generators, power failures, power failure, rackspace power failure
 
 
 
 
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The most insecure banking/sales terminal

2008-07-14 13:27:20 by Editor in Security x.0
 
Can you imagine an ATM running Windows XP Home Edition and being connected to the Internet or a Point of Sale terminal running Tetris ? Unlikely! Why then is allowing a customer to use any computer on the Internet to connect to the banking system, and transfer much more money than you can take out of a cash machine, a good idea? Why did arguably...
 
Tags: address, address security, security, secure, security features, banks, banks agree, secure software, internet company
 
 
 
 
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8-day IT outage would cripple most companies

2008-01-10 00:00:00 by HASH0x8962d84 in Network World on Security
 
A Gartner poll of information security and risk management professionals released Thursday shows that most business continuity plans could not withstand a regional disaster because they are built to overcome severe outages lasting only up to seven days
 
Tags: risk management professionals, overcome severe outages, business continuity plans, gartner poll, regional disaster, information security, days, thursday, withstand
 
 
 
 
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World's Most Dangerous Roads

2007-12-14 22:41:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
A nice Google Map of the most dangerous roads on the planet (in terms of fatality accidents) according to the Association for Safe International Road Travel
 
Tags: dangerous roads, nice google map, fatality accidents, terms, planet, association
 
 
 
 
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Going where the puck isnt, and focusing on the most important things

2007-12-31 04:45:57 by Scott in Scott Wright's Security Views
 
Instead of doing a security year-in-review article, or trying to make predictions for the coming year in security, I thought I would go in a slightly different direction for my last article of 2007. Most security authors and bloggers are doing a great job at this time of year in covering all the industry trend stuff
 
Tags: security year-in-review article, article, security, security authors, industry trend stuff, time, predictions, bloggers, job
 
 
 
 
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Do you know how identity theft happens most of the time?

2008-02-29 04:52:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
Many people probably think that identity theft occurs most often as a result of hackers gaining unauthorized access to our computers. However, this is not the case I attended a Web 2.0 round table discussion yesterday (called "The New New Internet"). I was quite surprised to hear Mike Bradshaw, a self-described Google Department Head, tell us...
 
Tags: time, laptop, average laptop costs, built-in biometric sensor, finger print, time ago, google department head, finger, identity theft occurs
 
 
 
 
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Hong Kong, China Web domains cited as "most dangerous"

2008-06-04 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Hong Kong and China are the "most dangerous" places to surf the Web based on country domain, according to McAfee's annual assessment of the riskiest and safest places in cyberspace
 
Tags: hong kong, annual assessment, country domain, dangerous, web based, china, cyberspace, surf, mcafee
 
 
 
 
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McAfee names '.hk' world's most dangerous domain

2008-06-04 00:00:00 by HASH0x8af217c in Network World on Security
 
Hong Kong's ".hk" is now the world's most dangerous domain for surfing and searching, according to a report released Wednesday by security company McAfee, but the survey's methodology may mean it is not as risky as its seems
 
Tags: dangerous domain, security company mcafee, world, hong kong, report, survey, wednesday, risky, methodology