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Metrics for security and performance in low-latency anonymity systems

2008-07-21 08:16:12 by Steven J. Murdoch in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...selection critical for security, but its also a significant performance factor. Tor nodes vary dramatically in their capacity, mainly due to their network connections. If all nodes were chosen with equal likelihood, the slower ones would cripple the network. This is why Tor weights the selection probability for a node proportional to its...
 
Tags: route selection, route selection critical, route selection algorithms, route, nodes, tor nodes vary, security, performance, route selection algorithm
 
 
 
 
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Sensitive Columbia University student information exposed for 16 months

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2008-06-15 23:32:25 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...selection process and contracts in April 2007. [Evan] This was a good move in my opinion. Social Security numbers shouldn't be required for housing selection at college Further, in spring 2008, Columbia Housing and Dining implemented a new software system to manage and improve the housing assignment, contract, and billing processes which...
 
Tags: columbia, information, university, evan columbia university, evan, security, protect social security, personal information, columbia university
 
 
 
 
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More trustworthy election systems via SDL?

2008-02-04 23:34:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...selection of cryptographic algorithms. For example, DES is prohibited except for backwards compatibility. SDL also requires that applications use operating system cryptographic functions and libraries. The cryptography team in the operating systems group is supported by world-class cryptographers who carefully scrutinize the implementation of...
 
Tags: machine security concerns, security concerns, election systems, election, security, security researchers, election systems margin, margin, election management system
 
 
 
 
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L.A. Dept. of Water of Power employees exposed

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2008-02-19 17:11:13 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...selection Breach Description Computer equipment was stolen from a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power vendor, Systematic Automation that contained sensitive personal information belonging to every employee of the utility Reference URL Los Angeles Daily News online story Los Angeles Times online story Report Credit Beth Barrett, Los...
 
Tags: employee information, information, information security practices, confidential information, information security policies, sensitive personal information, dwp, dwp officials, represents dwp employees
 
 
 
 
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VCsChoosing How to Invest

2008-08-04 10:23:13 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...selection process to the way investors choose their stocks I would guess that every one of you reading this blog have a stock portfolio with 5 to 10 individual stocks or mutual funds. There are more than 5,000 publicly listed companies to choose from, and another 5,000 mutual funds. But, out of 10,000 possible companies you chose 10 to invest...
 
Tags: investors chose, chose, investors, editorial selection process, investors choose, companies, selection process, choose, mutual funds
 
 
 
 
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Open Letter to Verizon Wireless

2008-08-25 15:43:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...selection stinks. I dont want to leave them and am hoping that whatever little bad press I can cause will encourage them to resolve the issue. If not, Im tapping out. For 3 years I have hated my phone and loved their network. Im ready to feel mediocre about both. Here it goes I am currently without a phone and would appreciate a speedy reply...
 
Tags: phone, phone workedit, free phone, current phone, verizon, phone selection stinks, verizon wireless store, time, verizon wireless customer
 
 
 
 
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Information flow tracing and software testing

2007-09-17 09:32:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...selection of a large corpus of initial input samples At WOOT'07 ,I presented a paper on Flayer , a tool we developed internally to augment our security testing efforts. In particular, it allows for a fuzz testing technique that compromises between the original idea and the most complicated. Flayer makes it possible to remove input sanity...
 
Tags: input, flayer marks, initial input samples, flayer, fuzz, fuzz testers require, checks, dynamic analysis framework, sanity checks
 
 
 
 
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Intellectual Property- what is it and how do we secure it?

2007-12-29 06:43:45 by Editor in Security Links
 
...selection of both practical and authoritative books on the subject. Whether you are looking for a book covering the TRIPS Agreement or the Nice Treaty, then you will find it here Intellectual Property Law, 4th Edition Holyoak and Torremans: Intellectual Property Law, Fourth Edition Contemporary Intellectual Property: Law and Policy...
 
Tags: intellectual property, treaties, international patent treaties, major copyright agreements, agreements, copyright, rights, intellectual property rights, copyright legislation
 
 
 
 
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Logging Poll #5 "Top Logging Challenges" Analysis

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2008-02-08 11:06:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
...selection of my enlightened blog readers Fourth , infrastructure! Specifically, No infrastructure to manage the log volume we have is very popular as well (#4). This proves the point that I used to not take very seriously in the past (by mistake): when megabytes become gigabytes and those flow into terabytes, many things that used to trivial...
 
Tags: enable log collection, log, log management, log analysis tools, collect logs, logs, log security, poll, log volume
 
 
 
 
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So much to read, so little time - Top Information Security Risks for 2008

2008-01-16 13:32:00 by Ryan Shopp in practical risk management