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Australia May Outlaw Laser Pointers

2008-04-02 13:51:34 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
They were used against planes last week I'm sure criminals also used cars in Australia last week. Will the country ban them next On the other hand, I'm sick and tired of laser pointers myself. On the third hand, the cats of Australia will be terribly disappointed
 
Tags: laser pointers, australia, week, hand, country ban, cats, terribly, planes, criminals
 
 
 
 
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Silver Bullet Talks with Mikko Hyppönen

2008-01-07 09:15:52 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
Mikko Hyppönen is the chief research officer for F-Secure where he has worked since 1991 as an active malicious code researcher. Hyppönen and his team have done prominent work against the Sobig.F, Sasser, and Zotob worms. He's also been active in the discovery of malicious code used for "good," such as Sony's infamous digital rights management...
 
Tags: chief research officer, malicious code, mikko, zotob worms, excerpt, active, discovery, f-secure, prominent
 
 
 
 
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Open source security bugs uncovered

2008-01-09 00:00:00 by HASH0x8470c4c in Network World on Security
 
A U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) bug-fixing scheme has uncovered an average of one security glitch per 1,000 lines of code in 180 widely used open source software projects
 
Tags: source software projects, homeland security, security glitch, department, widely, lines, scheme, average, dhs
 
 
 
 
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Watching the registrars

2008-01-11 00:00:00 by Mark Gibbs in Network World on Security
 
Network Solutions has once again shown that it can't be trusted in its role as a domain name registrar Register for a WAN Acceleration Technology Primer Advertisement This paper explores the differences between commonly used WAN acceleration technologies
 
Tags: wan acceleration technologies, paper explores, network solutions, advertisement, shown, register, differences, domain, registrar
 
 
 
 
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10,000 Web sites rigged with advanced hacking attack

2008-01-14 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b6b9bc in Network World on Security
 
A sophisticated hacking scheme seen early last year is affecting an increasing number of Web servers, including one owned by a major online advertising company, the chief technology officer of Finjan Software said Monday Register for a WAN Acceleration Technology Primer Advertisement This paper explores the differences between commonly used...
 
Tags: wan acceleration technologies, chief technology officer, paper explores, finjan software, major online, web servers, advertisement, scheme, monday
 
 
 
 
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Fun 2008 Outlook With ...

2008-01-15 23:39:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
the terms "risk", "threat", etc defined Among all the 2008 predictions I am tagging , this one is special: Top information security risks for 2008. Apart from the interesting insight, they - wow!- defined and used the terms for threat, vulnerability, risk and control. The actual doc is called top information security threats, vulnerabilities...
 
Tags: risk scenarios, risk, threat, terms, controls pdf, actual doc, org, insight, predictions
 
 
 
 
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Fun Info on Pain Rays

2008-01-16 19:43:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
Representative quote : "The femtosecond laser they used is not quite capable of causing agony at the receiving end About me: http://www.chuvakin.org
 
Tags: representative quote, femtosecond laser, capable, org, chuvakin, agony
 
 
 
 
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Cisco launches faster firewall/VPN appliance

2008-01-22 00:00:00 by Tim Greene in Network World on Security
 
Cisco is coming out with a new high-end firewall/VPN device for large businesses that is part of the company's ASA line of security appliances Register for a WAN Acceleration Technology Primer Advertisement This paper explores the differences between commonly used WAN acceleration technologies
 
Tags: wan acceleration technologies, high-end firewallvpn device, paper explores, asa line, cisco, security appliances, advertisement, businesses, differences
 
 
 
 
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Anti-Virus Company Says PeerGuardian is Malware

2008-02-24 23:20:05 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Over the past week, some servers used for updating the anti-virus software NOD32 were labeled as anti-p2p by a popular list maker for PeerGuardian. In response, NOD32s company, ESET, has categorised PG2 as malware in some of its latest updates
 
Tags: popular list maker, anti-virus software nod32, malware, peerguardian, past week, nod32s company, response, eset, pg2
 
 
 
 
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How they hacked it: The MiFare RFID crack explained

2008-03-19 10:24:03 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Hackers, start your microscopes? The MiFare RFID hack, writes Geeta Dayal, used a few tools not in the arsenal of your average code-duffer. But now that researchers have done the heavy lifting, subsequent cracks will be much, much simpler