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Free Open Source Tool Released For Web Services Security Scanning
Foundstone, Inc.� Strategic Security Have not checked it out yet. Sounds promising. Although it would be nice to have a scanning tool that can do application security checks regardless of the protocol …
Unintended consequences of improved SSL UI in browsers
SSL Organization Vulnerabilities The following example web site spoofs demonstrate the vulnerabilities that exist if First-Generation vetting practices for digital certificates are used in combination …
Study: Users becoming more security Conscious
Fear of Spyware Changing Online Habits - Yahoo! News Internet users worried about spyware and adware are shunning specific Web sites, avoiding file-sharing networks, even switching browsers. …
Musings On The Horrible Bombings In The Uk
I hope we have better reason to suspect Al-Qaida than this. And can’t the press do better than push a ridiculous assertion such as this below with a weak justification by an anonymous source? …
The Rise of the American Taliban
Daily Kos: State of the Nation I was just talking last week about the rise of the American Taliban and how hypocritical some brands of “christian” are about who gets to have freedom of …
More Tsa Idiocy
Following up on my earlier posting on TSA idiocy… Supposedly this was also at SeaTac. Just met with some friends tonight and the subject of airline/airport “security” came up. A …
Cryptography Must Overcome Ui Problems To Be Both Useful And Effective
A great paper to read up on, especially given that Phishing is showing us that the “Trusted Third Party” model as implemented in today’s web browsers is horribly broken. Don …
Best Quote
Best quote: “Whenever someone thinks that they can replace SSL/SSH with something much better that they designed this morning over coffee, their computer speakers should generate some sort of …
Wireless security can be funny
This is a true story! The link to the story below is stale now, but this one still works: Hackers tell man he’s “too fat” to eat at Burger King - silicon.com …
Pigeons Follow Roads To Navigate
Telegraph | News How do homing pigeons navigate? They follow roads By Caroline Davies (Filed: 05/02/2004) Researchers have cracked the puzzle of how pigeons find their way home: they just follow the …