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Yearly Archives: 2008
Ink Tags: My Security Review from HW1
For my security review, I have chosen to cover the anti-theft devices that are commonly used at retail clothing stores, which I believe are called “ink tags”. I am basing this information from personal experience (I briefly worked for a … Continue reading
Posted in Security Reviews
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Watching an Exploit Unfold: Sex Offenders and the ESRB
This post documents an actual vulnerability exploit I recently witnessed. Details have been changed to protect the stupid. I happened to be loafing around on IRC yesterday, when an unusual opportunity to observe some pointless cybercrime in action presented itself. … Continue reading
Boeing 787 Dreamliner Wireless Enabled
Australian IT, Ben Woodhead
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23036773-15306,00.html
Composites World, Jeff Sloan
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Storm Update…holiday edition…
Summary: The popular Storm botnet (also known as Peacomm and a bevy of other names…one for each AV company!) has just released yet another round of its malware in spam send out over the christmas / new years holiday period. … Continue reading
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Keeping an Open Wireless Network?
I’d like to briefly share with you an interesting article by famed computer security scientist Bruce Schneier that he recently wrote for Wired. In it he argues against securing your wireless network and for having open networks that others can … Continue reading
Example Security Review #5
Michael Levine provided this example CSE 490K Security Review.
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