Category Archives: Ethics

Weak Password

Posted on February 14, 2009 by liaowt

According to yahoo!News, the statistics of 28,000 passwords that are recently stolen from a popular US website that is posted in physorg.com  “16 percent took a first name as a password … 14 percent relied on the easiest keyboard combinations … Continue reading →

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Current Event: Kaspersky Hacked

Posted on February 8, 2009 by Ryan McElroy

Kaspersky, an Antivirus vendor and Internet Security Lab, recently fell victim to an internet hacker using an SQL-injection attack. The attack compromised data in all databases accessible to the web server. According to the hacker, “Alter one of the parameters … Continue reading →

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Security Review: The Bike and its Lock

Posted on February 6, 2009 by oterod

EDIT: It appears that I goofed with the “more” tag when I first posted this, so I’ve included the rest of the article below. Since the days of waking up at 5am to watch the Tour de France live with … Continue reading →

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Current Event: Google Releases ‘Latitude’

Posted on February 6, 2009 by vincez

Google has released a new product called ‘Latitude’. It is an extension based on the extremely popular Google Maps web application that allows users to track the exact location of friends and family members using the GPS signal in their … Continue reading →

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Current Event: racial profiling no more effective than random screening

Posted on February 6, 2009 by ezwelty

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 →

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Current Event: Rigged Red Lights

Posted on February 6, 2009 by petermil

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 →

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UW CSE Resources

Posted on February 5, 2009 by ezwelty

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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Security Professional Works as Botmaster

Posted on January 30, 2009 by erielt

Security Professional John Schiefer has continued to work in the computer security field for 15 months while he has been waiting to be sentenced for being a botmaster of a 250,000 bot herd (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/23/botmaster_sentencing_kerfuffle/). This Los Angeles based security consultant … Continue reading →

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Security Review: Pandemic Prevention

Posted on January 30, 2009 by hmu2

According to a New Scientist Article, a company called Biorics wants to control the spread of pandemic disease by dispersing “cough-detecting” microphones throughout airport lounges. The proposed technology would detect coughing passengers and distinguish a common-cold-like cough from one that … Continue reading →

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Current events: Sony Ericsson a victim of its own employee

Posted on January 16, 2009 by sal

Issues of stealing physical or intellectual property (physically or electronically) in the context of a malicious company insider are closely interrelated, as some common prevention mechanisms can be adopted for both. According to the recent article by Mikael Ricknas, cell … Continue reading →

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