Security
Is The Price Right For Your Freedom
How do you measure a cost-benefit for the new security measures or of your liberty? It is hard to even come up with a causal link from the “increased” security measures (ask me about the …
Secure programming in UNIX HOWTO
David Wheeler has put together a set of design and implementation guidelines for programming securely in several languages. The document is actually in a ton of different formats, even ones suitable …
Quot Us Gov'T Blindly Trusts The Antivirus Industry Quot-
I love the quote below and the 15 claims about how shady the Antivirus industry is are great, especially #7, “expect applause when you release hundreds of security patches for your product each …
Low Bandwidth Application Dos Attacks
Interesting work and something that I can’t seem to get many people to pay attention to. Not all DoS attacks are bandwidth exhaustion attacks. DoS attacks can be thought of generically as …
Interpreting 'Access' And 'Authorization' In Computer Misuse Statutes
The paper is 81 pages long but based on the abstract, it appears like important work. I hope that this will be taken to heart by policy shapers. Cybercrime’s Scope: Interpreting …
E Voting Interview Reveals Serious Risks To Election Integrity
This scares me as a security professional. This especially scares me as a resident of Washington State. Some gems from this interview with representatives from Sequoia systems: Miller: “On the …
Bmw 7 Series Windowsce Crash Traps Driver Inside
A post to the IP and Risks lists is a harbinger of things to come as more and more complexity and computer-controlled systems get added to everyday devices without ensuring the same kind of quality …
Quot If You Want To Win An Election Just Control The Voting Machines Quot-
quot- A couple more sites working against all-electronic voting machines: https://www.blackboxvoting.com/ https://www.ecotalk.org/VotingSecurity.htm Also, an article discussing a situation that, if …
Can Microsoft Be Secure
I sure hope so. I have high expectations for Windows 2003. We’ll see how things progress. I want to know who the companies are that were surveyed… I assure you mine wasn’t one of …
Facial Recognition Systems Quot Improve Quot-
quot- [IP] NIST rates facial recognition systems “The three top-rated systems verified identities correctly 87 percent to 90 percent of the time with a false-alarm rate of 1 percent. When NIST …