Category Archives: Security Reviews

Security Review: PayPal

Posted on March 13, 2009 by beenen34

PayPal, along with other services like Ebay, is an online tool used to transfer money that most are familiar with.  Web payment services are a major conveinence, but come with a number of significant risks.  Services like PayPal can allow … Continue reading →

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Security Review: VoIP Communication

Posted on March 13, 2009 by bensona

Over the past five years or so, voice over IP has rapidly gained in popularity and use.  It touts cheaper calls for residential users and corporations can save big because additional extensions on a VoIP infrastructure are less costlythan their … Continue reading →

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Security Review: DTV coupon program

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Kevin Wallace

This June, all U.S. television stations must shut off their analog broadcasts, and replace them with digital ones. In order to make the transition less painful, the DTV Coupon Program offers up to two coupons to every U.S. household, good … Continue reading →

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Security Review: Google Latitude

Posted on March 13, 2009 by elenau

Google Latitude is yet another product available by the well established makers of the Gmail internet based mail system. Latitude is a web based service, running in sync with a client side application Google Gears, which allows Google to pinpoint … Continue reading →

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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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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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