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DNA Matching and the Birthday Paradox

2008-09-11 06:21:02 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...pairs would we expect to find matching on at least 9 of 13 loci in the Arizona database? Remarkably, about 100. If you start with 65,000 people and do a pairwise match of all of them, you are actually making over 2 billion separate comparisons (65,000 * 64,999/2). And if you aren't just looking for a match on 9 specific loci, but rather on...
 
Tags: match, match varies, positive match, specific loci, pairwise match, percent chance, chance, loci, people
 
 
 
 
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Whats New in the Amazon Cloud?: Security Vulnerability in Amazon EC2 and SimpleDB Fixed (7.5 Months After Notification)

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2008-12-18 23:09:54 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
...pairs Sort the pairs based on the keys Append the keys and values together, in order, to construct one big string (key1 + value1 + key2 + value2 Sign that string using HMAC-SHA1 and your secret access key Did you spot the problem? Colin did and explains as follows When Amazon invented this signature scheme, they forgot about one of the...
 
Tags: amazon, amazon cloud, simpledb, security, vulnerability, aws signature version, security vulnerability, signature version, amazon devpay
 
 
 
 
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New Year's Resolutions for choosing online retailers

2007-12-20 09:31:28 by Andras Cser in Security & Risk Management
 
...pairs correctly in addition to providing the correct username and password Vendors: Oracle Adaptive Authentication Manager (Bharosa acquisition), Digital Envoy, Entrust, iovation, RSA Security File-based device authentication (inexpensive, low to medium level of security, low user inconvenience Website puts a cookie on the users browser and...
 
Tags: user inconvenience, low user inconvenience, users desktop, users desktop software, software, medium user inconvenience, low, imagic software, user
 
 
 
 
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Who should do your security audits? Or, how do you organize the security department?

2008-02-07 22:25:32 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...pairs. (Oh, and I got to write about my code/configuration/circumvention vulnerability triple again, heh.) Please tell me your thoughts. Maybe there's an entire white paper here, possibly even a TechEd presentation. Maybe someday we should offer a "TechManagementEd" conference
 
Tags: information, information assets, information security, alignment folk, security alignment folk, information security department, alignment, security department, security
 
 
 
 
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How the MPAA Might Enforce Copyright on the Internet

2008-02-11 13:24:03 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...pairs that cross its network, killing all traffic for that torrent on the ISP's network. By continuing to spider the Torrent, the MPAA can find new users as they are added and dropped, updating the map to the ISP in near-real-time Note that this requires no wiretapping, and nicely minimizes false positives Debate on idea here
 
Tags: mpaa, torrent, isp, map, current graph, graph, network, copyright, participants
 
 
 
 
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Flaws found in Firefox, Opera

2008-02-18 00:00:00 by Jason Meserve in Network World on Security
 
Firefox and Opera are both under fire as security researchers at Vexillium have found a flaw that could allow attackers to capture a users' Web history. No word on updates yet, but be on the lookout. We've also got pairs of patches from rPath, FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva and Gentoo
 
Tags: opera, firefox, security researchers, web history, mandriva, users, flaw, capture, fire
 
 
 
 
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Logs: Parsing, Tokenizing or Extracting?

2008-03-11 01:54:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...pairs, comma/tab delimited with descriptive header, sequential names and values [yuck!], XML, etc) to obtain a semblance of structured data (not just a flow of text logs) from logs without any human involvement But is that an endgame, that "holy grail" of log analysis or yet another step towards it? First, bad logs break it (e.g. with space...
 
Tags: logs, log analyst, log, convert logs, log management, diverse log sources, text logs, log analysis, bad logs
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: General Commuter-Fi, Microsoft Bus-Fi, Nikon S52c

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2008-04-10 14:15:19 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...pairs 9 megapixel images, Flickr, Wi-Fi: The $300 camera, shipping in a few weeks, has a 9 MP sensor, 3x optical zoom, and vibration reduction and stabilization. The camera's internal Wi-Fi works with a local network, where it transfers photos to a computer, which then can upload them to their own online service, Picturetown, or it can...
 
Tags: wi-fi planet runs, wi-fi, internal wi-fi, system, commuter bus system, service, online service, commuter vehicle wi-fi, free bus service
 
 
 
 
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Eye-Fi Adds Geotagging, Splits Up Product Line

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2008-05-09 14:07:15 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...pairs the act of taking a photograph with the location at which the picture is taken, making a digital photograph seem a little less untied to reality. But until now, it's been generally quite involved to match a picture with coordinates. A handful of specialized cameras embed GPS chips, and there's software to facilitate other methods, but...
 
Tags: eye-fi, wi-fi, simple wi-fi, wi-fi networks, eye-fi ties, eye-fi home, eye-fi handles, wi-fi environment, eye-fi explore