Daily Archives: March 13, 2009

Security Review: Apartment Complex Rent Drop-boxes

Posted on March 13, 2009 by levya

Most people renting an apartment use a common drop-box to pay the rent. Most often this is located in an easily accessible common are like the mailboxes or near the manager’s office. The setup to be discussed here is a … Continue reading →

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Security Review: Google Voice

Posted on March 13, 2009 by eapter

Apologies for reviewing the same technology. The other Google Voice review just appeared for me, which was after I wrote my own. I did check prior to starting this review, and it wasn’t up then. Summary: ComputerWorld had an article … Continue reading →

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Security Review: My Apartment

Posted on March 13, 2009 by tchan

The apartment complex I live in is comprised of a garage and multiple residential floors. The access points into the building are through the elevator, garage, and a street access door. All three use RFID keycards to restrict the access … Continue reading →

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Researchers develop security flaw scanner for use during Development

Posted on March 13, 2009 by asekine

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090224133010.htm Summary Researchers have proposed and started testing a new system for helping to identify potential bugs and security flaws during the development cycle of software development.  It works to help the development team identify and prioritize potential targets and … Continue reading →

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Security Review: Technology’s vulnerability to sniffing keystrokes from electromagnetic emissions.

Posted on March 13, 2009 by dannya

This vulnerability is one of the most profound in computing.  Every computer has a connection from the keyboard to the CPU, and when signals are sent this connection acts as an antenna, transmitting a characteristic wave for each keystroke.  Each … Continue reading →

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Current Event: ITunes vulnerability leak user credentials

Posted on March 13, 2009 by levya

The recently released ITunes 8.1 closed two major security gaps from the previous version. According to Apple, until the latest release, maliciously crafted podcasts could cause ITunes to ask user for credentials but send the username and password to a … Continue reading →

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Security Review: Final Examinations

Posted on March 13, 2009 by petermil

Final exams are just around the corner (or in some cases may already have been taken if they’re in-class ones)!  I figured I’d write a security review about the system of final exams. Assets and Goals: Pre-knowledge of questions After … Continue reading →

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Security Review: UW Parking Enforcement

Posted on March 13, 2009 by ezwelty

The parking at the University of Washington has always been a deadly game of cat and mouse between driver and parking enforcement. There are limited parking resources on campus, and parking enforcement wants to make sure that they are maximizing … Continue reading →

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Current Event: Kremlin loyalist admits to launching DDoS attack on Estonia

Posted on March 13, 2009 by beenen34

According to an article from Rueters (http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE52B4D820090313?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0), Konstantin Goloskokov, a member of a Russian youth movement recently claimed responsibility to organizing a group of fellow supporters and executing a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Estonian internet sites, causing … Continue reading →

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Current Event: Telegraph website hacked

Posted on March 13, 2009 by vkirst

The Telegraph, a famous daily newspaper in the UK, was hacked into by a Romanian hacking group last week. The group exposed a weakness in the way the website queried its database for property searches and was able to obtain … Continue reading →

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