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More trustworthy election systems via SDL?

2008-02-04 23:34:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...noted in these reports could have been prevented by following the requirements in Microsofts Security Development Lifecycle. The studies performed in California (prepared at UC Berkeley but created by teams of academics from across the United States) included detailed source code analysis. Ill select out a few examples from those studies and...
 
Tags: machine security concerns, security concerns, election systems, election, security, security researchers, election systems margin, margin, election management system
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: First Starbucks with AT&T? Plus, L.I.-Fi, Panasonic Camera, Corpus Christi Decision

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2008-04-16 12:03:00 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...noted with Klaus Ernst's help on 10 April 2008. The store is located a few miles from AT&T's HQ Suffolk signs contract with E-Path: After yesterday's scathing New York Times article--which I wrote up and elaborated on --you might be surprised to read that Suffolk County's executive Steve Levy has signed a contract with E-Path, the Wi-Fi...
 
Tags: york times article, york times, starbucks, wi-fi network builder, wi-fi network, york, network, starbucks login banner, noted yesterday
 
 
 
 
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Wayport Tops 10,000 McDonald's Locations

2008-04-29 09:25:32 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...noted pay a predetermined flat rate for the service via McDonald's. "It's made them incredibly efficient to be able to offer this to their franchisees at one price, instead of variable pricing," he noted. Wayport acts as the layer between various telecom providers, applications and services, and the stores Wayport provides several kinds of...
 
Tags: wayport, wi-fi, comprehensive wi-fi plan, local wi-fi network, att service, service, wayport offers, network, wayport caches
 
 
 
 
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Common Criteria and answering the question 'Is it Safe'

2007-12-20 16:57:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...noted in #1 from the attackers noted in #2 Obviously different customers will have different criteria for determining Is it Safe? Small businesses will have different needs from large multinational corporations who will have different needs from government security agencies. To answer that question, security professionals require time...
 
Tags: criteria, fails, common criteria fails, common criteria, common criteria arguably, common, arguably, arguably deficient, security
 
 
 
 
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Ricochet, at Long Last, Dead

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2008-03-31 13:05:58 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...noted that Civitas was claiming "a decade of experience operating large-scale wireless deployments," which was specious. I noted, "Thats only true if you count some of the equipment mounted in Denver as continuous employees of the company Goodbye, Ricochet, an idea first way ahead of its time, and then way, way behind it
 
Tags: ricochet, ricochet division, ricochet network, network, company, march, death march, large-scale wireless deployments, cellular data service
 
 
 
 
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SDL and "End to End Trust"

2008-04-17 00:15:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...noted in the End to End Trust Paper There remained, however, other more specific threats not well addressed by SD3 or Defense-in-Depth. For example, spam does not normally exploit vulnerabilities, nor would one turn off mail by default. There is also very little a specific user or enterprise can do to prevent a distributed denial-of service...
 
Tags: trust, broader, broader discussion, trust portal, technology, technology progress, broader vision, speech recognition, computer speech recognition
 
 
 
 
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Deloitte & Touche and IKON lose confidential information

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2007-12-20 14:23:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...noted security experts" (so called in the article) can't get it right, then we're all in trouble. Laptop drive encryption is extremely easy to implement and manage corporate wide...and has been for years. So, why is this still happening? - Jim Commentary According to the letter to affected individuals, IKON Office Solutions was responsible...
 
Tags: information, touche, ikon, confidential information, information security controls, deloitte, third-parties secure information, touche partners, ikon office solutions
 
 
 
 
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U.S. Ratcheting up Cyber Defenses in Wake of High Profile Cyber Attacks in 2007?

2007-09-21 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...noted in that post that the answer in Europe was apparently yes and referenced quotes in a June 30th Reuters story from European Information Society Commissioner Vivian Reding: "Estonia was a wake up call...If people do not understand the urgency now, they never will
 
Tags: post, security blog post, recent cyber attacks, national leadership level, cyber security issue, estonia, call, leaders, noted
 
 
 
 
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Firefox hit with spoofing bug

2008-01-03 00:00:00 by HASH0x891b3f0 in Network World on Security
 
A serious flaw in how Firefox handles logons could be used by identity thieves to dupe users into disclosing passwords, a noted security researcher said Wednesday
 
Tags: firefox handles logons, noted security researcher, identity thieves, dupe users, passwords, wednesday, flaw
 
 
 
 
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Facebook Privacy Issues

2008-01-07 02:05:44 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...noted that some of the people who built some of the largest social networking sites in the world are also data mining experts - its not a leap to figure out why those two are a dangerous combination for privacy. So while Im not upset with Facebook - you wont find me building a profile there anytime soon