Category Archives: Ethics

Security Review: New Weapons in the Fight Against Doping

Posted on March 13, 2009 by oterod

The use of performance enhancing drugs and medical techniques is a serious problem in every sport, but no sport is as notorious for doping scandals as is professional cycling. While Olympic athletes, baseball players, and body builders are often caught … Continue reading →

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Current Events: One more botnet-related legal fray

Posted on March 13, 2009 by oterod

As part of an “expose’” on cyber crime, BBC’s “Click” team took it upon themselves to hire a botnet. With the stated goal of demonstrating the power of “cyber criminals” in today’s world, the journalists purchased the use of ~22,000 … 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: 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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Current Event: Air Force Engineers develop BitTorrent sniffer

Posted on March 13, 2009 by ezwelty

Original article: http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/02/airforce-engineers-develop-bittorrent-sniffer.ars The Air Force Institute of Technology has a new method for passive BitTorrent tracking. The system attempts to read the header of BitTorrent packets, and compare the hash in the packet to a known set of bad … Continue reading →

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The BBC Borrows a Botnet

Posted on March 13, 2009 by bensona

In an effort to make the public aware of the threat of botnets, the BBC comes very close to violating the UK’s Computer Misuse Act.  The BCC technology program Click acquired a botnet of about 22,000 computers and used them … Continue reading →

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Security Review: In-Eye Video Camera

Posted on March 9, 2009 by jimmy

Rob Spence, a Canadian Filmmaker, is currently developing a prototype to equip his prosthetic eye with a built-in, wireless video camera.  The digital system, while not able to transmit information to his brain, will be able to route the signal … Continue reading →

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Current Event: Convicted Botnet Leader Retains Job

Posted on March 7, 2009 by eapter

In three sequential articles, ComputerWorld traces the sentencing of convicted botnet leader John Schiefer as well as his continued employment at the start-up Mahalo.  Schiefer is an ex-security consultant and is the first botnet leader to be charged under the … Continue reading →

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Current Events: UK Company Illegally Sold Worker Data

Posted on March 6, 2009 by jap24

According to an article at the Guardian, dozens of companies in the UK had been buying personal information about potential employees from a company called the Consulting Association in violation of British data protection laws.  The Data Protection Act made … Continue reading →

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Current Event: YoBusted.com, busted?

Posted on February 16, 2009 by hmu2

According to a recent article from Business Week, a photo-sharing site, YoBusted.com, has crossed the line between maintaining personal privacy and extortion. This site allows users to post incriminating pictures of friends without proof that his or her permission to … Continue reading →

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