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Scantegrity: End-to-End Voter-Verifiable Optical- Scan Voting

2008-05-22 14:32:01 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
Scantegrity is a security enhancement for optical scan voting systems. It's part of an emerging class of "end-to-end" independent election verification systems that permit each voter to verify that his or her ballot was correctly recorded and counted. On the Scantegrity ballot, each candidate position is paired with a random letter. Election...
 
Tags: scantegrity, scantegrity ballot, ballot, random letter, paper audit records, letter, security enhancement, position, legislative proposals
 
 
 
 
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Pa. county switches from touch-screen to optical scan e-voting machines

2008-03-06 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Election officials in a Pennsylvania county reversed course and selected an optical scan voting machine vendor after its first choice, a touch-screen vendor, said it could not agree to meet future certification standards for the equipment
 
Tags: optical scan, future certification standards, machine vendor, vendor, pennsylvania county, election officials, agree, choice, equipment
 
 
 
 
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A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software - Part Four

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2008-08-25 05:58:02 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Thanks to the affiliate based business model that's driving the increase of fake security software and rogue codecs serving domains, the very same templates, but with different domain names, continue appearing in blackhat SEO, spam, and malicious doorways redirection campaigns Moreover, with the "time-to-market" of a fake security software...
 
Tags: fake security software, traffic, drive traffic, diverse portfolio, traffic acquisition tactics, malicious, malicious isps, due, traffic due
 
 
 
 
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An Open Letter to Ken Leonard, CEO, ScanAlert

2008-01-25 13:45:00 by Russ McRee in HolisticInfoSec.org
 
Dear Mr. Leonard As well you are aware; the Hacker Safe brand has long been viewed by those in the information security field with varying levels of skepticism, if not vehement disdain. As there are a plethora of blogs, articles, and exposed vulnerabilities available for you to review, I will not waste your time with excerpts validating our...
 
Tags: hacker safe brand, hacker safe, hacker safe program, site hacker safe, hacker safe credential, site, xss vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities, xss
 
 
 
 
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Hacker Free Site?...Yeah, right.

2008-05-09 19:51:00 by Russ McRee in HolisticInfoSec.org
 
So as not to seemingly pick only on McAfee Hacker Safe, I thought it appropriate to show just how ridiculous the entire premise of calling anything Hacker Safe, Hacker Proof, and now WebSafe Shield Hacker Free Site really is. For you, dear reader, a new video for your streaming pleasure, courtesy of the WebSafe Shield Hacker Free Site My brother...
 
Tags: mcafee hacker safe, hacker safe, safe, courtesy, xss silliness courtesy, xss, websafe shield, mention xss, security vulnerabilities
 
 
 
 
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Are current vulnerability and compliance testing tools like answering the phone at 3am?

2008-05-19 23:16:18 by HASH0x8af1430 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
I was at a meeting for a potentially large customer engagement for vulnerability assessment and compliance testing last week. The requirements for this customer was not unusual. They wanted to test for conventional CVE type vulnerabilities. Additionally, they also wanted to test for configuration compliance. Hotfixes, patch level, AV, etc. This...
 
Tags: compliance, configuration compliance, compliance status, status, prime time hours, time, network, detect devices, devices
 
 
 
 
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Epic Cash Vs Zango - Legal Action Incoming?

2008-09-01 18:58:06 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
 
Over the last few days I've seen a scan doing the rounds on a couple of adult webmaster sites & forums, like here (Warning: there may be NSFW content on that forum). There's another link here regarding some follow up information which seems to be safe for work, but the forum it links to most definitely isn't. Just a heads up Anyway, the source...
 
Tags: epic cash, zango, epic cash websites, zango adware, business, unfair business practices, adult webmaster sites, prospective economic advantage, scan
 
 
 
 
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Downloading Free Spyware Adware Removal Programs

2007-08-01 19:25:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
Downloading Free Spyware Adware Removal Programs There was a time when the person did not have to worry about viruses, spyware, worms and other headaches. Unfortunately, these things are here and people have to deal with it rather than becoming another victim Given that this problem affects everyone on a global scale, software companies have...
 
Tags: free, free program courtesy, free program, free spyware, spyware, adware, adware programs, spyware guard, program
 
 
 
 
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Disable Your Computer's Parasites

2007-08-01 19:23:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
Disable Your Computer's Parasites An individual who uses a computer with an Internet connection pretty much practices caution when downloading programs from the Internet and email because of the threat of viruses and worms. These malicious program codes and programs can cause your system to become unstable and worse yet, after it has spread...
 
Tags: computer, adware, adware continues, internet, internet connection pretty, spyware, anti virus programs, unwittingly install adware, regular computer