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Why Do We Accept Signatures by Fax?

2008-05-29 01:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...signatures the weirdest thing? It's trivial to cut and paste -- with real scissors and glue -- anyone's signature onto a document so that it'll look real when faxed. There is so little security in fax signatures that it's mind-boggling that anyone accepts them Yet people do, all the time. I've signed book contracts, credit card...
 
Tags: fax, fax communications, fax insecurity, insecurity, fax machines, fax message, treat fax signatures, fax document, document
 
 
 
 
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Fax Signatures

2008-06-03 07:01:20 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...signatures the weirdest thing? It's trivial to cut and paste -- with real scissors and glue -- anyone's signature onto a document so that it'll look real when faxed. There is so little security in fax signatures that it's mind-boggling that anyone accepts them Yet people do, all the time. I've signed book contracts, credit card...
 
Tags: fax, fax signatures, fax communications, fax insecurity, insecurity, fax machines, fax message, treat fax signatures, fax document
 
 
 
 
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Fax Signatures

2008-06-03 07:01:20 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...signatures the weirdest thing? It's trivial to cut and paste -- with real scissors and glue -- anyone's signature onto a document so that it'll look real when faxed. There is so little security in fax signatures that it's mind-boggling that anyone accepts them Yet people do, all the time. I've signed book contracts, credit card...
 
Tags: fax, fax signatures, fax communications, fax insecurity, insecurity, fax machines, fax message, treat fax signatures, fax document
 
 
 
 
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Detection Rates for Malware in the Wild

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2008-04-30 04:58:01 by HASH0x8af6948 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Signatures Most Prolific BotNet Command and Control Servers and Filters Most Observed Malware-Related DNS Names Most Effective Antivirus Tools Against New Malware Binaries Most Aggressively Spreading Malware Binaries I was particularly interested in the rankings in the "Most Effective Antivirus Tools Against New Malware Binaries" section,...
 
Tags: malware, signatures based malware, malware authors, source malware, malware threat center, malware binaries, binaries, vendors, vendors infrastructure
 
 
 
 
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Super 8 credit card receipts found in landfill

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2008-03-26 10:47:46 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...signatures Breach Description Bundles of credit card receipts from a Super 8 Motel in Lamar were discovered in Lamar's landfill, complete with account numbers, names, addresses and signatures Reference URL KKTV Channel 11 News Report Credit Rosie Barresi, KKTV Channel 11 News Response From the online source cited above Bundles of credit...
 
Tags: receipts, credit card receipts, credit card, super, credit card account, lamar hotel, lamar, credit card information, jane lupp
 
 
 
 
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Milton Security Group takes over Vernier EdgeWall 7000 support - Who is Milton Security?

2008-04-11 22:13:00 by HASH0x890482c in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...signatures the Vernier boxes use. I guess being this small, without VC money behind them, they might be just better off using the Tenable and Sourcefire signatures and hope that those guys figure they are too small to sue If you are a Vernier customer you have to be checking your underwear. I mean do you want Milton-Bradley supporting your...
 
Tags: milton, milton security, milton-bradley, milton security serves, vernier, vernier customer, customer, vernier boxes, vernier line
 
 
 
 
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Crimeware in the Middle - Zeus

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2008-04-24 04:37:46 by HASH0x8ae4648 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...signatures against them and each use of the kit usually makes existing signatures ineffective. Just like in most cases, this particular use of the Zeus kit did not have any a nti-virus detection (with the popular engines we tested) at the time of this writing 3. Rich feature set: the Zeus Trojan has many startling capabilities. In addition...
 
Tags: zeus, file, remote file, zeus trojan, binary file, file system32 drivers, kit, metaphisher kit, configuration file
 
 
 
 
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Reverse Engineering: Smashing the Signature

2008-08-20 06:57:13 by Editor in Help Net Security - Articles
 
Many antivirus and antispyware solutions identify malicious programs by looking for known unique signatures contained inside them. Those signatures are stored inside a database which is constantly upd
 
Tags: unique signatures, signatures, malicious programs, antispyware solutions, constantly upd, inside, database, antivirus
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft Hits Back at Atsiv

2007-08-02 22:17:32 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...signatures to Windows Defender to detect Atsiv, at least the current version of it. Source for Atsiv is supposedly available (although I didn't see a link for it on the Linchpin Labs site), so it should be possible to write a new version that Defender won't detect if you're looking forward to losing your own code-signing certificate. The blog...
 
Tags: atsiv, microsoft, detect atsiv, detect, revocation list, revocation, verisign cost, driver loadboot time, verisign
 
 
 
 
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Making Threat Modeling Work Better

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2007-10-17 00:23:53 by sdl in