Category Archives: Security Reviews
Security Review: Mandylion Password Manager
Summary Password complexity and policy enforcement in today’s enterprise has forced users to take unsecure measures to ensure recollection of the many passwords they use. Users may put passwords in text files on their computer, re-use old passwords frequently, or write … Continue reading
Want to Steal A Baby?
Overview: Overlake Hospital Birthing Center has put a security system and policies in place to make sure babies are safe there. First of all, mothers are given a bracelet when they come in that identifies who they are. This is … Continue reading
Shopping Cart for speedy check-out and advertisement
Video Ads Are Planned for Grocery Carts, Mintz, Jessica. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080114/D8U5LR780.html. Retrieved on: 01/14/2008
MediaCart, Microsoft and Wakefern Team Up to Deliver Next-Generation Digital Grocery Shopping and Ad Experience. http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/industries/technology/article/mediacart-microsoft-wakefern-team-deliver-nextgeneration-digital-grocery_434708_12.html. Retrieved on: 01/18/2008 Continue reading
Security Review: Apple’s Time Capsule
Given the iPhone’s myriad vulnerabilities and the unrest spawned by their high-profile discovery and exploitation, perhaps the security aspects of new Apple products, such as the Time Capsule, merit our consideration. The Time Capsule is a sleek wireless hard drive … Continue reading
Home Security Systems
Summary: The physical system I am reviewing is the prototypical home security system. These systems are used to provide an increased sense of security (compared to only door and window locks), and provide a guarantee against more professional break-in attempts. … Continue reading
Retail Electronic Sensor Gates
SECURITY REVIEW: Retail Entrance/Exit Alarm Gates Most of us have been to a retail store of some kind and encountered someone setting off the obnoxious alarm of security gates that line the doors while exiting or entering the building. Such … Continue reading
Obtaining HFS Master Keys
Despite the huge cost of “missing” master keys, HFS (Housing and Food Services) continues to use easily produced staff ID cards to prove the identity of their employees. This vulnerability in the key checkout procedure could allow anyone with access to a card printer or even a lamination machine to obtain not just one master key for an individual residence hall but all master keys for every hall. Continue reading
Bike locks
With many people living off campus, biking is a popular method for getting to class in a timely manner. Bikes can be quite expensive, however, and riders are usually forced to put them in a public location (for sake of … Continue reading
Security Review – The USPS Mailbox
Overview The blue USPS mailbox, a ubiquitous object on American streets today, is one of the most recognizable security devices currently in use. Despite its many shapes and sizes, its purpose boils down simply to one of protection of privacy, … Continue reading
RFID embedded in prisoners
The UK has proposed to embed offenders with RFID chips as part of an expansion of the electronic tagging scheme that would allow British officials to to help enforce home curfews. This sort of tagging already exists within pets like … Continue reading