Category Archives: Security Reviews
Security Review: Stevens Pass RFID Lift Access
The Stevens Pass ski resort has recently implemented a new RFID lift tickets access system for all their chair lifts. Although this greatly improves convenience and may shorten lift lines, it is vulnerable to severable attacks which could prevent it … Continue reading
Security Review: Automated Traffic Enforcement
Security Review: Automated Traffic Enforcement Summary: This security review was motivated on a family member of mine receiving a ticket from this technology: the automated traffic enforcement. This is a fairly new system cities are using to enforce traffic laws. … Continue reading
Smashing the Lab for Fun and Profit
Since many people are probably busy working on or wrapping up lab 2, I thought it would be a good time to post a security review based on some interesting findings that I discovered in the course of completing the … Continue reading
Security Review: ShopAds from Adgregate Markets
In early September 2008 during the TechCrunch50 Conference, there we many companies that came forward presenting ideas on how to change the advertising business. One such company, Adgregate Markets, presented an idea they call the ShopAds widget. This widget can … Continue reading
Security Review: RFID Tags are safe to use?
In Current Event: WarCloning Passport RFID Tags, The recent experiment was introduced, which was done by researcher Chris Paget. According to the article, Paget could scan passport RFID tags. During a recent 20-minute drive in downtown San Francisco, it successfully … Continue reading
UW CSE Resources
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
Security Review: GPeerReview
GPeerReview is a new project that attempts to create a web of trust for scientific publications. The goal is to have people read papers, leave comments, and digitally sign them with GPeerReview. The review could then be sent to an … Continue reading
Security Review: Google Latitude, tracking friends on Google Maps
A recent article on slashdot purports that Google will soon release new software, dubbed ‘Latitude’ enabling users to broadcast their geographic location via Google Maps. This information can be gathered either from mobile phones, via GPS or local cell phone … Continue reading
Security Review: Robot Scientist automates the discovery of new drugs!
A group of researchers working in the EU funded IQ project have put together a robot scientist that can devise a theory, come up with experiments to test the theory, carry out the physical experiments, interpret the results and then … Continue reading
Security Review: Network Solutions’ Worldnic Domain Name Hosting Service
Network Solutions runs one of the largest domain registrars and DNS hosting providers in the world. It currently hosts more than 7.5 million domain names, including many of the most popular web sites on the Internet. The domain name servers … Continue reading