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Tracking Vehicles through Tire Pressure Monitors

2008-04-10 06:29:06 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...readable using off-the-shelf receiver. Although the transmitters power is very low, the signal is still readable from a fair distance using a good directional antenna Remember the paper that discussed how Bluetooth radios in cell phones can be used to track their owners? The problem with TPMS is incomparably bigger, because the lifespan of a...
 
Tags: battery-less tpms sensors, tpms, vehicle transportation authorities, easily readable, typical cell phone, readable, fair distance, built-in battery, transmitters power
 
 
 
 
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A New Way to Back Up Digital Files on paper

2008-09-04 08:28:19 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...readable or not. You must insert your medium into the drive (if you have one!) and try to read it Paper is different. Do you remember the punched cards? EBCDIC and all this stuff. For years, cards were the main storage medium for the source code. I agree that 100K+ programs were unhandly, but hey, only real programmers dared to write...
 
Tags: paper, code, source code, paper backups, real programmers dared, data, data density, real programmers, flash cards
 
 
 
 
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Hackers get busted

2007-11-30 11:08:26 by Dan Cvrcek in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...readable Hackers do use various tools either publicly available, or made by the hacker themself. There may be errors in the tools, but they will be probably fixed very quickly, especially if they are popular. Hackers often allow others to use the tools if it is for testing or fame. But hacking for profit is a quite creative job, and there is...
 
Tags: hackers, procedures, reconstruct operational procedures, hacker themself, tools, mistakes, hacker, bright, bbc news
 
 
 
 
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How to fraudulently elect a president

2008-01-23 00:00:00 by Editor in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...readable large font size. The only problem was that she exposed the credential type, the name and the address for me to misuse as I pleased! Now I know that I am not the first to bring this up or write about it. Even so, it boggles my mind that after having to go to the Supreme Court the last time we went through this exercise to select our...
 
Tags: tuesdays ago eager, pleasant elderly volunteer, process, democratic process, easily readable, credential type, authentication method, primary elections, address
 
 
 
 
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University of Miami reports stolen tapes affecting patients

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2008-04-25 15:34:41 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...readable data from the tapes, said Christopher Day, senior vice president of the Secure Information Services group at Terremark. Because of the highly proprietary compression and encoding used in writing the tapes, we were unable to extract any usable data Alan Brill, senior managing director at Kroll Ontrack, who was asked by the University...
 
Tags: personal information belongs, personal information, tapes, university, information, financial information, secure information services, data, usable data
 
 
 
 
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Spying on Computer Monitors Off Reflective Objects

2008-05-20 10:44:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...readable images of 12 point Word documents from a distance of 5 meters (16 feet). From 10 meters, they were able to read 18 point fonts. With a $27,500 Dobson telescope, they could get the same quality of images at 30 meters Here's the paper : Abstract We present a novel eavesdropping technique for spying at a distance on data that is...
 
Tags: objects, meters, technique exploits reflections, reflections, dobson telescope, images, telescope, limitations, establish theoretical limitations
 
 
 
 
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Logging Poll #8 Analysis: Needed Log Context

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2008-06-03 08:38:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
...readable names are better: IPs in logs needs to be mapped to DNS or Netbios names. Indeed, given that often such names reveal where the system is, who might own it, what its function is, etc this information is not just a mapping, but true log information enrichment Fourth, so, what's next? The above 3 top responses are indeed universally...
 
Tags: log, recent log entry, strange log entry, log time stamps, log record, heavy log, log entry, complement logs, logs
 
 
 
 
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June Patch Tuesday Advance Notification

2008-06-05 15:49:31 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...readable new view in the Affected Software section. For each operating system version you can see which bulletins are relevant and what the severity is. The bulletins now have English titles too: The three critical bulletins The Bluetooth Bulletin: Affects XP SP2 and SP3, Vista and Vista SP1 The Internet Explorer Bulletin: Affects all Windows...
 
Tags: security bulletins, bulletins, critical bulletins, windows versions, versions, windows, critical, vista sp1, windows server
 
 
 
 
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June Patch Tuesday Advance Notification

2008-06-05 15:49:31 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...readable new view in the Affected Software section. For each operating system version you can see which bulletins are relevant and what the severity is. The bulletins now have English titles too: The three critical bulletins The Bluetooth Bulletin: Affects XP SP2 and SP3, Vista and Vista SP1 The Internet Explorer Bulletin: Affects all Windows...
 
Tags: security bulletins, bulletins, critical bulletins, windows versions, versions, windows, critical, vista sp1, windows server
 
 
 
 
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Credit Card Protections Abroad

2008-10-10 10:59:08 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource