Daily Archives: February 5, 2009

Security Review: Automated Traffic Enforcement

Security Review: Automated Traffic Enforcement Summary: This security review was motivated on a family member of mine receiving a ticket from this technology: the automated traffic enforcement. This is a fairly new system cities are using to enforce traffic laws. … Continue reading

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Smashing the Lab for Fun and Profit

Since many people are probably busy working on or wrapping up lab 2, I thought it would be a good time to post a security review based on some interesting findings that I discovered in the course of completing the … Continue reading

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Current Event: Malicious Parking Tickets

According to a post on the Internet Storm Center (ISC), some malware writers have turned to leaving false parking tickets in order to lure victims into running malicious programs. The parking tickets contained a URL where one could see a picture of the supposed offense. Upon arrival to the site, users were prompted to download a toolbar in order to view their particular picture(s). Continue reading

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Security Review: ShopAds from Adgregate Markets

In early September 2008 during the TechCrunch50 Conference, there we many companies that came forward presenting ideas on how to change the advertising business.  One such company, Adgregate Markets, presented an idea they call the ShopAds widget. This widget can … Continue reading

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Security Review: RFID Tags are safe to use?

In Current Event: WarCloning Passport RFID Tags, The recent experiment was introduced, which was done by researcher Chris Paget. According to the article, Paget could scan passport RFID tags. During a recent 20-minute drive in downtown San Francisco, it successfully … Continue reading

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Arrested in Washington? Give us your DNA!

As I found on Slashdot, a controversial piece of legislation is being considered that would allow for the collection of DNA from arrested persons. The DNA may be collected prior to the arrested person being charged with a crime, and … Continue reading

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UW CSE Resources

As an undergraduate student in the computer science department, there are a number of computing resources available for use. A number of these resources are through the web browser, and have private, personal information associated with them (for instance, MyCSE). … Continue reading

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