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Al Qaeda Recruiting Non-Muslims

2008-01-24 08:55:00 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
This is an about non-Muslims being recruited in the UK: As many as 1,500 white Britons are believed to have converted to Islam for the purpose of funding, planning and carrying out surprise terror attacks inside the UK, according to one MI5 source This quote is particularly telling: One British security source last night told Scotland on Sunday:...
 
Tags: british security source, real potential danger, people blend, mi5 source, white britons, non-muslims, domestic security, sunday, islam
 
 
 
 
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Inane security questions

2008-02-18 23:07:19 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
I am the trustee of a small pensions scheme, which means that every few years I have to fill in a form for The Pensions Regulator . This year the form-filling is required to be done online In order to register for the online system I need to supply an email address and a password (at least 8 characters long and contain at least 1 numeric or...
 
Tags: questions, security questions, favourite, favourite entertainer, non-alphabetic character, password, favourite teacher, online system, main childhood phone
 
 
 
 
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This will go nowhere too.

2008-06-10 14:42:26 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
Im sorry, its that kind of day I guess. You see, Im a AF brat, and a ex AF Nuke puke. History has shown that wars are won decisively by one method, Air Superiority. Its evident to me that the people in charge are not mission oriented. The mission includes many roles and paths, this has not been in the plans in the last 8 to 10 years. Lest they...
 
Tags: picks non-fighter pilot, air force, non-fighter, defense secretary robert, mission includes, mission, nuke puke, action monday, air superiority
 
 
 
 
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The NIC | Portal to Disaster? (Step 1 - Part 2)

2006-09-22 15:29:29 by Editor in Endpoint Security: Translating Policy Into Reality
 
Below is a non-exhaustive listing of network enumeration tools. I have purposefully included a broad range of useful and popular tools comprising multiple price ranges (from freeware to expensive
 
Tags: multiple price ranges, network enumeration tools, broad range, popular tools, non-exhaustive, freeware, expensive
 
 
 
 
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Declassifying the DES Challenge Software

2007-02-14 00:00:00 by Burt Kaliski in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
As I mentioned during the Cryptographers' Panel at the RSA Conference last week, Rocke Verser has just expired the non-disclosure agreement he placed on the source code for DESCHALL, the program that did the exhaustive key search to solve RSA Laboratories' first DES Challenge in 1997. Rocke had asked participants in the distributed effort to...
 
Tags: des challenge, potential proprietary applications, rocke verser, solve rsa laboratories, rocke, exhaustive key, speedups secret, rsa conference, software
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft Releases Nine Security Updates for Windows, Office

2007-08-14 13:30:25 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
Microsoft today released nine security bulletins and a series of product updates to address the issues in them. Six of the nine include critical vulnerabilities on at least some of the products they cover Critical: MS07-042Vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services Could Allow Remote Code Execution Critical: MS07-043Vulnerability in OLE...
 
Tags: remote code execution, windows, critical, include critical vulnerabilities, security, critical vulnerability, microsoft, windows media player, windows gadgets
 
 
 
 
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FBI Wiretaps Canceled for Non-Payment

2008-01-11 14:30:10 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau's repeated failures to pay their phone bills on time
 
Tags: fbi wiretaps, telephone companies, phone bills, failures, time, cut, criminals, eavesdrop, bureau
 
 
 
 
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Yahoo to support OpenID single sign-on

2008-01-17 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b3d234 in Network World on Security
 
People with a Yahoo user name and password will be able to use that ID information to access non-Yahoo Web sites that support the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework, reducing the amount of different logon information people need to create, remember and enter online
 
Tags: logon information people, people, information, digital identity framework, openid, support, enter online, yahoo user, remember
 
 
 
 
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Blackberry risk overseas? What else is new?

2008-02-16 12:41:01 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
I believe the biggest risk today relative to handheld devices is the willingness of users--both corporate and private--to ignore the dangers associated with the use of their smartphones and PDAs. This is true not only for non-management types. This is also true for C-level managers--the people most likely to use these device out of the country...
 
Tags: true, c-level managers, handheld devices, non-management types, risk, users, ignore, smartphones, constraints