Category Archives: Security Reviews
Intel healthcare: SOA Expressway for Health Care http://www.intel.com/healthcare/ps/soa/index.htm?iid=health+lhn_soa Intel has created a scalable, easy to deploy health care network with the hopes of enabling sharing and collaboration of health care information. Intel Health Care network is build upon common components … Continue reading
Security Review: Self-scanning Checkout
Self-scanning checkout, also called “self-checkout” is an automated process that enables shoppers to scan, bag, and pay for their purchases without human assistance. A typical self-scanning checkout lane looks like a traditional checkout lane except that the shopper interacts with … Continue reading
Security Review: Automobiles
In the United States, automobiles are everywhere. Most middle-income families own more than one vehicle, and chances are that everybody knows of at least one person whose vehicle has been broken into or stolen. Cars, trucks, and SUV’s are very … Continue reading
Security Review: HomeLink Universal Transceiver
The HomeLink Universal Transceiver is a device that, like a universal remote, can record the output of a wide variety of garage door openers and home automation control systems and emulate the output for future use. When used as advertised, … Continue reading
Security Review : Add-ons
An add-on is a simple plugin that you use, say for firefox, to let you do your work more easily. This also lets you customize the browser in ways that do not affect the productivity of other people. Add-ons are … Continue reading
Security Review: Poker Game
A game of poker can be played for fun or money. The game itself uses low tech equipments, and the two main ones are a standard deck of cards and playing chips of different colors to represent different amounts of … Continue reading
Facebook Opens Status API
“Facebook is slowly tearing down the wall around its silo and is starting to expose more of its data to the outside” (From Facebook Opens Up: Lets Developers Access Status Updates, Notes, Links, and Videos). Now Facebook allows the third-party … Continue reading
Security Review: MMO Gaming
Most people in our society today are familiar with the concept of MMO gaming. World of Warcraft, for example, is something most everyone has heard of. Most MMO games operate under a fairly strict client/server paradigm. A company that … Continue reading
Security Review: The Bike and its Lock
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
Security Review: Smashing abstract—more on Lab 2
While experimenting with Lab 2 I began discovering real vulnerabilities and decided to make a security review out of it. I spent a couple days experimenting and taking notes only to find that I’d been beaten to the punch yesterday. I nearly despaired at several days’ work gone for naught, but after carefully reading both of the posts I believe that I still have something to contribute. My discussion will focus a bit more on the security of abstract and provide other additional details. Continue reading