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Credentica

2008-02-15 05:02:52 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Stefan Brands has a new company, Credentica , that allows people to disclose personal information while maintaining privacy and minimizing the threat of identity theft I know Stefan; he's good. The cryptography behind this system is almost certainly impeccable. I like systems like this, and I want them to succeed. I just don't see a viable...
 
Tags: cryptographer stefan brands, stefan, viable business model, disclose personal information, credentica, identity theft, impeccable, system, threat
 
 
 
 
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WordPress 2.6.2 Released Due To PHP Weakness That Might Lead To Attack

2008-09-09 03:24:16 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
New WordPress version, 2.6.2, was released today to mitigate a new attack vector discovered by PHP security researcher Stefan Esser. According to an advisory from WordPress blog, Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and the weakness of mt rand(). Blogs that allow users registration should be upgraded as...
 
Tags: sql column truncation, stefan esser recently, weakness, wordpress blog, users registration, wordpress version, attack vector, blogs, rand
 
 
 
 
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Who Are the Information Security Experts?

2008-02-13 19:12:03 by Chris Wysopal in Zero in a bit
 
...Stefan Esser, Hardened PHP Project I dont see any SPI Dynamics or HP people on this arguably less biased list. I do see 3 of my former collegues from @stake: Dave Aitel, Dino Dai Zovi, and Window Snyder. Seeing that giants Microsoft and Google only got 2 each on the list and @stake has 3 it lends credence that @stake was the place to be for...
 
Tags: security, security hackers, computer security specialists, security people due, spi dynamics, spi dynamics acquisition, people, google security team, dino dai zovi
 
 
 
 
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Boring Jobs Dull the Mind

2008-04-26 06:37:04 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Stefan Debener, of Southampton University, UK The brain begins to economise, by investing less effort to complete the same task We see a reduction in activity in the prefrontal cortex. At the same time, we see an increase in activity in an area which is more active in states of rest, known as the Default Mode Network (DMN This has security...
 
Tags: brain, brain begins, brain activity, activity, brain scans, flanker task, default mode network, functional magnetic resonance, task
 
 
 
 
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The Skein Hash Function

2008-10-29 04:35:29 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Stefan Lucks , Doug Whiting , Mihir Bellare , Tadayoshi Kohno , Jon Callas , and Jesse Walker). Here's the paper: Executive Summary Skein is a new family of cryptographic hash functions. Its design combines speed, security, simplicity, and a great deal of flexibility in a modular package that is easy to analyze Skein is fast. Skein-512 -- our...
 
Tags: skein, hash function, function, implement skein-256, implement, skein hashes data, skein website, hashes data, key derivation function
 
 
 
 
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Silent Break-Ins: How Technology Compromises Physical Security Too

2008-11-11 15:17:53 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...Stefan Savage, the computer science professor from UC San Diegos Jacobs School of Engineering who led the student-run project. Perhaps this was once a reasonable assumption, but advances in digital imaging and optics have made it easy to duplicate someones keys from a distance without them even noticing Professor Savage presents this work on...
 
Tags: someones keys, keys, lock, computer science professor, unethical key maker, lock-picker, lock-breaker, apartment, reasonable assumption
 
 
 
 
 
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