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Voters trust touch-screen machines, studies show

2008-03-26 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Two new studies show that Americans are becoming more comfortable with the use of e-voting equipment during elections, but critics of the systems said the studies missed the point by not considering security issues
 
Tags: studies, security issues, elections, americans, comfortable, systems, critics, equipment
 
 
 
 
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The Fallacy of Self-Fulfilling CEP Use Case Studies

2008-08-06 15:30:13 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...studies are interesting, but they hould not limit the vision, definition, and future of processing complex events; andbe careful of use case fallacies
 
Tags: cep, cep products, believethey maydefine cep, detect, liketo detect fraud, cep vendors, current generation products, complex events, define
 
 
 
 
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More trustworthy election systems via SDL?

2008-02-04 23:34:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...studies on voting systems last year in California , Connecticut , Florida , and Ohio provide some interesting insights about security concerns and vulnerabilities in voting systems from several vendors These analyses are fascinating to us, because they offer an opportunity to see how a set of experts look at products other than ours. Applied...
 
Tags: machine security concerns, security concerns, election systems, election, security, security researchers, election systems margin, margin, election management system
 
 
 
 
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Three computers at the University of Colorado are compromised

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2008-04-30 08:54:01 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Studies between 1997 and 2003 Number Affected 9,500 According to the school's response, "approximately 9,000 students, and approximately 500 instructors Types of Data names, Social Security numbers, addresses, grades Breach Description The University of Colorado at Boulder has announced that it discovered three computers in the Division...
 
Tags: store confidential information, information, store personal information, information security efforts, security efforts, efforts, address computer security, computers, computer security
 
 
 
 
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Red Light Cameras Don't Work

2008-08-25 12:19:23 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...studies clearly show red-light cameras don't work," said lead author Barbara Langland-Orban, professor and chair of health policy and management at the USF College of Public Health. "Instead, they increase crashes and injuries as drivers attempt to abruptly stop at camera intersections Comprehensive studies from North Carolina, Virginia, and...
 
Tags: red, red-light, red-light runners, install red-light cameras, cameras, red-light cameras, conclude cameras, studies, rigorous studies
 
 
 
 
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Security Perception: Fear vs Anger

2008-03-23 12:42:05 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...studies, the participants in our nationwide field study did have strong feelings about the issues at stake -- September 11th and possible future attacks -- and they also had a lot of information about these issues as well. We wondered whether the same emotional carryover that we found in our lab studies would occur -- whether fear and anger...
 
Tags: potential future attacks, future attacks, future, future terrorist attacks, perceive future risks, attacks, worlds future, clip subsequently, subsequently
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Your Brain on Wi-Fi; Zipit Offers Free SMS; Wi-Fi Alliance Model Trade Group

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2008-05-12 13:26:30 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...studies that show no connection between electromagnetic radiation and health, so it's only fair I highlight credible ones that suggest a connection. In what appears to be two well-conducted and well-controlled studies, cell phones appeared to affect alpha waves (related to one's focus on external v. internal stimulus and sleep), and delta...
 
Tags: zipit, wi-fi, text, free text messages, messages, cell phones, cell phones interfere, wi-fi alliance cited, zipit wireless messenger
 
 
 
 
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Motor Vehicle Crashes and Complex Event Processing

2007-12-31 03:19:30 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...studies have shown that risk estimation using hierarchical Bayes models has several advantages over estimation using classical methods. They also point out that the overall strength of the Bayesian approach is its ability to structure complicated models, inferential goals, and analyses. Among the hierarchical Bayes methods, three are most...
 
Tags: motor vehicle crashes, complex event, traffic, manage traffic, joon jin song, song, roadway traffic crash, bayes methods, hierarchical bayes methods
 
 
 
 
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Why Some Terrorist Attacks Succeed and Others Fail

2008-02-28 06:25:13 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Studies " (Homeland Security Institute, June 2007), the authors examine eight recent terrorist plots against commercial aviation and passenger rail, and come to some interesting conclusions From the "Executive Summary": The analytic results indicated that the most influential factors determining the success or failure of a terrorist attack...
 
Tags: vigilant security services, vigilant, recent terrorist plots, terrorist plots, information fits, information, intelligence information, security services, law enforcement
 
 
 
 
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If they are so harmful, why are they added?

2008-06-05 14:44:01 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog