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End user security psychology, part I: Are small mobile computers less secure than larger mobile computers?

2008-03-27 11:30:35 by Bill Nagel in Security & Risk Management
 
...usable (Web) interface. Screen real estate was lacking, mobile Net browsers were beyond clunky, data plans were prohibitively expensive: all of the annoyances of online banking in an even less usable format The lack of a broad use-case across the entire range of transaction values. To minimize risk, there are often limits to what can be done...
 
Tags: mobile, mobile signatures, mobile channel, authentication, mobile authentication, mobile phone apps, mobile device, online, online channel
 
 
 
 
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University of Miami reports stolen tapes affecting patients

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2008-04-25 15:34:41 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...usable data Alan Brill, senior managing director at Kroll Ontrack, who was asked by the University to review the testing that had been done, said: While the report shows it is not impossible to access the data, in this case there are many barriers that stand between a thief and being able to actually get usable data from the tapes. If the...
 
Tags: personal information belongs, personal information, tapes, university, information, financial information, secure information services, data, usable data
 
 
 
 
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Off the wire: Build a usable security plan

2007-12-28 00:09:06 by Editor in Help Net Security - News
 
While there is nothing wrong with information security departments that like to use an ounce--or even a pound--of prevention, what if they dont have an ounce of cure
 
Tags: information security departments, ounce, cure, wrong, pound, prevention
 
 
 
 
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Covert channel vulnerabilities in anonymity systems

2007-12-10 10:39:42 by Steven J. Murdoch in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...usable for geolocation and, as a covert channel, can cross supposedly infallible air-gap security boundaries This thesis demonstrates how theoretical models and generic methodologies relating to covert channels may be applied to find practical solutions to problems in real-world anonymity systems. These findings confirm the existing...
 
Tags: covert, covert channel vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities, network covert channels, covert channels, channels, covert channel, anonymity systems, systems
 
 
 
 
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Moto Q9 DoS and Fingerprinting

2008-01-12 18:10:21 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...usable but not fast. It has the new version of Microsofts mobile operating system on there with direct push on there (similar to Blackberry which saves battery life, Im sure, for real time email), a 2mega pixel camera, etc etc Fun little toy. So id and I were driving around town and I was messing with my phone as he drove and it suddenly...
 
Tags: accept language, accept, devcap, devcap charset, devcap numsoftkeys, accept charset, devcap screenpixels, cell phone hacker, phone
 
 
 
 
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Show 001 - An Interview with Avi Rubin

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2006-04-19 17:47:13 by rmacmich in The Silver Bullet Security Podcast
...Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and Transparent Elections Froot Loops and Corn Flakes Subscribe to IEEE Security & Privacy
 
Tags: avi rubin, avi, ieee security, johns hopkins university, avis site, information security institute, avis, electronic, diebold electronic
 
 
 
 
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Ethics of Autonomous Military Robots

2008-01-28 07:12:35 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...usable representations and real-time reasoning capabilities for bounded morality using modal logics Mechanisms to ensure that the design of intelligent behaviors only provide responses within rigorously defined ethical boundaries The creation of techniques to permit the adaptation of an ethical constraint set and underlying behavioral...
 
Tags: ethical, ethical constraint set, ethical robotic warfighter, ethics, ethical boundaries, international protocols, war tradition subscribes, war, international
 
 
 
 
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What do the Cold Boot Crypto Attack, DVD Players, and MiFare tell us about the Future of Biometrics?

2008-03-26 00:16:43 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
 
...usable, anyplace paper-based IDs can be used today. This of course implies that the authenticator must be an inexpensive, commodity device, easy to purchase, maintain, and operate. Such a device would have to be even more ubiquitous than the electronic credit card machine The problem is that the authenticator itself may be in the possession...
 
Tags: biometric authentication, biometric authentication infrastructure, biometric authentication challenge, tamper-proof biometric authentication, authentication, authentication device, mifare, tamper, biometrics
 
 
 
 
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Grasping Security thru Visualization

2008-05-04 02:02:12 by JJ in Security Uncorked
 
...usable. Specifically, I try to help them understand what to add or change in order to allow customers to interpret and use the data thats being delivered to them. How can they take all this stuff, make sense of it, and correlate it to events on the network A lot of times that means finding ways to map data sources to known devices on the...
 
Tags: visualization, security, data, network data, security visualization, map data sources, splunk, splunk demo, download splunk
 
 
 
 
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Eye-Fi Adds Geotagging, Splits Up Product Line

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2008-05-09 14:07:15 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News