Articles tagged as "security"

Someone compromised 1% of all visa and mastercard account numbers
A 2-17-2003 very short Reuters story reports that Over 5 million Visa/MasterCard accounts hacked into
25 Feb 2003 • 1 min read
Orange Alert Status Terror For Students
From RISKS 22.56
25 Feb 2003 • 1 min read
Not Only N Korea Can Have Nukes
A Wired article describes an unbelievable story of reporter Noah Shachtman trivially breaching the physical security at none-other-than Los Alamos National Laboratory described as “the world’s most important nuclear research facility”.
25 Feb 2003 • 1 min read
New Ssl Active Mitm Attack
ttack
21 Feb 2003 • 2 min read
Citibank Trying To Silence Atm Pin Security Research
Citibank is trying to prevent the disclosure of new scientific research that has apparently broken ATM PIN confidentiality protection wide-open. This is even in the face of “phantom” charges appearing on people’s accounts that banks refuse to reverse, claiming that their system is so secure that users cannot repudiate such charges.
21 Feb 2003 • 2 min read
Slag your drives to thwart data recovery
A recent MIT study of 129 used hard drives indicated that people leave a treasure trove of data behind on their discarded computers.
21 Feb 2003 • 1 min read
TurboTax copy protection mucks with sectors on your hard disk
DRM is getting even more annoying, dangerous, and insidious. Intuit thought that it would be necessary to utilize a product called SafeCast to prevent unauthorized copying of its popular TurboTax product. Extremetech did some testing and found that SafeCast copy (not copyright) protection relied on modifying sector 33 on your hard drive outside of your operating system. This is not necessarily a Good Thing ™
19 Feb 2003 • 1 min read
To Thwart the Identity Thieves
There is an excellent article in BusinessWeek on what is supposed to be the fastest growing crime in the U.S.: Identity Theft. I agree that only radical reform will solve the problem. However, I always think that the solutions focus on symptoms of the problem disclosure of customer identifying information) and not on the root cause of the problem (insufficient authentication (i.e. PROOF of identity) requirements by credit issuers). Your identifying information should not have to be secret. That is the mark of an insecure system.
17 Feb 2003 • 2 min read
Richard Forno Let Go Rants About Symantec
Richard Forno was let go by Symantec, coincidentally right after he had politely complained in a letter about the extremely inefficient payment procedures they brought with them to SecurityFocus.
17 Feb 2003 • 1 min read
Computer Security And Intelligence Web Links
The C4I.org - Computer Security and Intelligence website has, according to the author, “little nuggets” of information he finds “interesting enough to post online”.
17 Feb 2003 • 1 min read