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Daily Archives: February 6, 2009
Police Searches of Personal Electronics
Source: Cnet In June 2008 Florida Highway Patrol officer John Wilcox pulled over Ariel Quintana for speeding, who was then discovered to be driving with a suspended license. The officer also suspected Quintana of being in possession of marijuana, but … Continue reading
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Current Events: GPU Accelerated WIFI Cracking
source articles: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/41032/144/ http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2419 GPU (graphical processing units) are usually intended to be dedicated hardware to aid in rendering 2D and 3D images. However, as their computing and parallel processing abilities have grown to astounding levels, many have begun to … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events
Tagged gpu, wireless security
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Security Review: Stevens Pass RFID Lift Access
The Stevens Pass ski resort has recently implemented a new RFID lift tickets access system for all their chair lifts. Although this greatly improves convenience and may shorten lift lines, it is vulnerable to severable attacks which could prevent it … Continue reading
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Tagged rfid
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Over 400,000 Accounts Stolen from phpBB
It was discovered last Saturday that an attacker was able to steal thousands of user accounts, passwords, and e-mails from phpBB.com. phpBB is open source and one of the most popular internet forum packages. The attack utilized a 0-day-exploit in … Continue reading
Security Review: Face Recognition Software
According to an article, Toshiba is producing PC’s that come with not only fingerprint readers but facial recognition software. The software uses a webcam built into the PC in order to identify the user. This software is designed so only the user … Continue reading
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Current Event: Biometric Identification Cards Distributed in the UK, But No Readers
A recent article from silicon.com details the recent issuance of £4.7 billion worth of ID cards containing biometric and biographical data to people of the UK. Critics of the plan are quickly pointing out that with no readers in place, … Continue reading
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Current Event: racial profiling no more effective than random screening
In “Study: racial profiling no more effective than random screen”, ArsTechnica reports on a new study by William Press, who claims that using profiling at security checkpoints such as airports is not effective in catching threats. The ineffectiveness, according to … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Ethics, Integrity, Physical Security
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Current Event: Xbox Live DDoS Attacks Become Popular
Xbox Live DDoS Attacks Become Popular Cheating in online multiplayer games has always been an issue. Each genre of game has been plagued with a certain type of hack: Map discovery hacks for RTS games, Aiming hacks in FPS’s, and … Continue reading
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Current Event: Rigged Red Lights
Summary In Italy, public officials have been abusing their authority to make more money from the public by making reds come earlier than they are supposed to (a shorter duration yellow than legally allowed). This means that, since they use … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Ethics, Integrity
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Current Event: New Hard Drive Encryption Standard Proposed
The Trusted Computing Group has proposed a new standard for self-encrypting hard drives. Many current hard drives boast encryption features, but some provide little details on the encryption process, and there was previously no single standard among all manufacturers. This … Continue reading
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