Security

• Cell Phone Service Temporarily Disabled In Nyc For Quot Security Quot-

  12 Jul 2005 • 2 min read • security post

  CNN.com - Cell phone service disabled in New York tunnels - Jul 12, 2005 Cell phone service was disabled inside the four tunnels leading into Manhattan after the terrorist bombings in London, but …

• Reduce Fear Increase Security

  12 Jul 2005 • 2 min read • security post

  This appeared in the October 2004 crypto-gram and is a very good description of how the current “security” measures at airports, etc. serve only to “reduce fear” and …

• Homeland Security Terror Alerts

  12 Jul 2005 • 1 min read • security post

  Good to look back on in light of the raising of the alert (and only for public transportation…) Is the best our intelligence can do is to assume that the next attack will be the same MO and …

• SecureUML, with Visio templates

  11 Jul 2005 • 2 min read • security post

  Mark Curphey’s Blog I am very methodical when it comes to security design and security reviews so I am sure that these templates will come in very handy to ensure uniform coverage of …

• Free Open Source Tool Released For Web Services Security Scanning

  11 Jul 2005 • 1 min read • security post

  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

  7 Jul 2005 • 1 min read • security post

  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

  7 Jul 2005 • 1 min read • security post

  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. …

• More Tsa Idiocy

  3 Jul 2005 • 3 min read • freedom security Civil Liberties post

  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

  29 Jun 2005 • 1 min read • security post

  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

  29 Jun 2005 • 1 min read • security Humor post

  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 …