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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Maryland abandons e-voting machines for paper ballots
The state of Maryland has decided, after spending $65 million on electronic voting machines made by Premier (formerly known as Diebold) Election Systems, to spend another $20 million on optical-scan machines that read paper ballots. The reason for this incredible … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Integrity, Physical Security, Policy
Tagged black box voting, Diebold, electronic voting, paper ballots, Premier, voting, voting machines
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Comodo Launches Memory Firewall
Dark Reading reports that Comodo, an security interest group / company has developed and released a memory firewall, purported to block 90% of all buffer overflow attacks, as well as several other common attack vehicles. Comodo also markets several products, … Continue reading
Say goodbye to saying ‘Hello’
Microsoft has filed a patent application for a monitoring system that collects data such as heart rate, respiration rate, body temperature, and brain signals and interprets this into the worker’s stress, frustration and productivity levels. Microsoft claims that it will … Continue reading
Want to Steal A Baby?
Overview: Overlake Hospital Birthing Center has put a security system and policies in place to make sure babies are safe there. First of all, mothers are given a bracelet when they come in that identifies who they are. This is … Continue reading
SQL injection insecurities: RIAA
As I was reading Digg early this morning, I stumbled upon this story that many SQL injection opportunities were uncovered by people hoping to defame the site. Through a simple query to drop entries or the tables themselves, the database … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Integrity
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Polish teen uses TV remote to derail trains
Covered on The Register, Telegraph.co.uk, and Slashdot. Earlier this month, a 14-year-old in Poland used a modified TV remote control to directly interfere with rail junction controls in the city of Lodz. He obtained information on the operation of the … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, Physical Security, Policy
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Shopping Cart for speedy check-out and advertisement
Video Ads Are Planned for Grocery Carts, Mintz, Jessica. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080114/D8U5LR780.html. Retrieved on: 01/14/2008
MediaCart, Microsoft and Wakefern Team Up to Deliver Next-Generation Digital Grocery Shopping and Ad Experience. http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/industries/technology/article/mediacart-microsoft-wakefern-team-deliver-nextgeneration-digital-grocery_434708_12.html. Retrieved on: 01/18/2008 Continue reading
Posted in Security Reviews
Tagged media cart, microsoft, rfid, shopping cart, shoprite, wakefern
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Online Game Security
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/461/1 Recently, a freelancer named Federico Biancuzzi published a book with his co-author, Greg Hoglund, about exploiting online games’ vulnerabilities. The article is an interview with Federico. He talked about one of the vulnerabilities in MMORPG is the fact that … Continue reading
Hackers Extort Utility Companies
Tom Donahue, the CIA’s top security analyst, announced this week that attackers hacked into the computer systems of foreign utility companies and held power grids hostage until their demands were met. In one case, they also caused a power outage … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events
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MySpace is NotSafe
A recent article concerning user privacy on MySpace made it known there is a serious flaw in the social network’s security. The reported exploit of the bug allows anyone, not just MySpace account holders, to view private profiles and private … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Ethics, Privacy
Tagged myspace, Privacy
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