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 “More than five million Visa and MasterCard accounts throughout the nation were accessed …
Orange Alert Status Terror For Students
From RISKS 22.56 “Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 05:46:37 -0500 From: “Rebecca Mercuri” Subject: Risks of Doing Homework At the faculty meeting at Bryn Mawr College on 12 Feb 2003, we were …
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 …
New Ssl Active Mitm Attack
" In a paper researchers at the Security and Cryptography Laboratory of Swiss University (Lasec) EPFL demonstrate a timing-based attack on CBC cipher suites in SSL and TLS. The attack assumes …
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” …
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. This begs the question of how can you securely dispose of old hard …
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 …
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 …
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. I …
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”. The most …