Monthly Archives: November 2006

Problem of Separating Data Ownership and Device Ownership

Nice essay on Wired.com by Bruce Schneier.

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McAfee List of Security Predictions for 2007

McAfee published 10 security predictions for next year. This is list: The number of password-stealing websites will increase using fake sign-in pages for popular online services such as eBay. The volume of spam, particularly bandwidth-eating image spam, will continue to … Continue reading

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Biometric Security and Fake Fingerprints

Is biometric by fingerprints secure? It seems it is not anymore – see this.

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(IN)SECURE Magazine is Very Good and Free

(IN)SECURE Magazine issue 9 has been released and available for free download (here). Many thanks to publisher and authors for their good work and providing us with free magazine.

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New DMCA Exemptions Granted

U.S. Copyright Office released its list of DMCA exemptions for the next three years. You may read it here. Also it is well covered on various blogs and press. You can read about it on Freedom to Tinker, and Derek … Continue reading

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SMiShing – What is that?

You are probably overwhelmed with lot of new and various words and acronyms that you can hear or read everywhere. Here is one more: SMiShing. McAfee Avert Labs Blog in its post (I saw this word for first time there), … Continue reading

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You Know What Phishing Is, But What About Pharming?

Couple of words to remember about phising: Phishing attacks use both social engineering and technical subterfuge to steal consumers’ personal identity data and financial account credentials. Social-engineering schemes use ‘spoofed’ e-mails to lead consumers to counterfeit websites designed to trick … Continue reading

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RSA Crypto Attack Poses Threat to DRM

In recent post on this blog, I mentioned attacks on RSA algorithm, so called “side-channel” attacks on secure systems. If these types of attacks show as successful, it can pose significant threat to DRM (Digital Rights Management). See more about … Continue reading

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Stealth Malware Taxonomy

A very interesting paper written by Joanna Rutkowska titled “Introducing Stealth Malware Taxonomy” proposes a simple taxonomy that could be used to classify stealth malware according to how it interacts with the operating system. Read this paper here.

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My paper: A Development Environment for Generating SUNC

It is ten years since my paper written for IEEE Technical Applications Conference Northcon 96, titled: “A Development Environment for Generating System for Universal Network Connecting” was published. Conference was held November 4-6, 1996, Seattle, Washington, USA. You can find … Continue reading

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