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My Princeton Experience and Optimism for Encryption

2008-02-26 05:56:00 by Patrick McGregor in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...Princeton have announced yet another landmark result in the realm of data security. For systems ranging from Java VMs to digital rights management to electronic voting machines and now to disk encryption the research group has shown that foundations for a secure world remain elusive to the industry I enjoyed the opportunity to collaborate...
 
Tags: security systems, engineer security systems, systems, security, complex security implications, security architects, feltens recent paper, recent paper, data security
 
 
 
 
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Technical glitch blamed in The Princeton Tower Club breach

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2008-05-13 09:20:10 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Princeton Tower Club Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Former club members Number Affected 103 Types of Data names and social security numbers Breach Description Tower Club is taking steps to protect 103 of its alumni in the classes of 2006 and 2007 after a spreadsheet listing their names and social security numbers was e-mailed...
 
Tags: princeton tower club, tower club, club, club technical chair, e-mail system tower, e-mail system, tower, system, current club
 
 
 
 
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Warming the cold boot a bit of braggin from BitArmor

2008-02-28 13:17:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...Princeton researchers. In short, they describe how one can steal the contents of RAM and extract the encryption passwords kept in clear text. The research concludes that almost all disk encryption products have the same fundamental flaw that enables anyone, without custom-built and expensive resources, to gain access to the system. Rich...
 
Tags: approach, happy approach, disk encryption products, disk encryption, complexity approach, bitarmor, disk encryption technologies, researchers, princeton researchers
 
 
 
 
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Encryption defeated, still an advocate?

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2008-02-22 16:15:15 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Princeton University, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Wind River Systems released an eye-opening report labeled " Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys " in which they "present a suite of attacks that exploit DRAM remanence [ sic ] effects to recover cryptographic keys held in memory OK. What does this mean to the...
 
Tags: encryption, disk encryption software, encryption software, information security field, information, hard drive encryption, disk encryption, text information, encryption keys
 
 
 
 
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Show 005 - An Interview with Ed Felten

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2006-08-28 18:05:36 by rmacmich in The Silver Bullet Security Podcast
...Princeton University and the Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy . Gary and Ed take a look at Eds predictions for 2006 and how hes faring so far and then discuss Eds relationship with his former adversaries. They also talk about how to discuss difficult technology issues with lawmakers and the importance of public policy...
 
Tags: eds predictions, ieee security, discuss eds relationship, information technology policy, bright 11-year-old, feltens blog, privacy, computer scientists, public policy
 
 
 
 
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205 University of Wisconsin employees exposed

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2008-01-21 14:44:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Princeton University's WordNet, a breach is "a failure to perform some promised act or obligation" or "an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)" According to Wisconsin law, a breach is "unauthorized acquisition of personal information", so I suppose if you have no evidence of the "unauthorized acquisition" you could get away...
 
Tags: information, personal information, information security vulnerabilities, social, include social security, security, identifiable information serves, information security personnel, computer shop
 
 
 
 
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Disk-Encryption Security Flaw Revealed: Not 'Minor'

2008-02-21 05:00:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
Princeton and EFF researchers demonstrate they can recover an encryption key from RAM after a computer has gone into standby mode, and even after a few minutes without power
 
Tags: standby mode, eff researchers, encryption key, recover, princeton, minutes, power, computer, ram
 
 
 
 
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Hard drive encryption has Achilles heel, say researchers

2008-02-21 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
If you think that encrypting your laptop's hard drive will keep your data safe from prying eyes, you may want to think again, according to researchers at Princeton University
 
Tags: hard drive, data safe, princeton university, researchers, laptop, eyes
 
 
 
 
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Disk encryption easily cracked, researchers find

2008-02-21 00:00:00 by Network World Staff in Network World on Security
 
The disk encryption technology used to secure the data in your Windows, Apple and Linux laptops can be easily circumvented, according to new research out of Princeton University
 
Tags: disk encryption technology, linux laptops, princeton university, easily, apple, windows, research, secure, data
 
 
 
 
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Researchers find hard drive encryption's Achilles' heel

2008-02-22 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News