Monthly Archives: January 2007

Two Rivals – Both Cracked by Same Person!?

There is news that the copy protection technology used by Blu-ray discs has been cracked by the same hacker who broke the DRM technology of rival HD DVD discs last month. The coder known as muslix64 used much the same … Continue reading

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Once Again About Vista Security

In couple of posts on this blog, I’ve written about dilemmas, different views, challenges and positions related to security of new Microsoft’s operating system Vista. Once again, new article in IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine (January/February 2007 (Vol. 5, No. … Continue reading

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Security Features vs. Convenience

Very interesting post on Jim Allchin’s blog about some of the design issues Vista team went through and tradeoffs they made in Windows Vista around DEP, UAC, IE and so on. It’s a long, but worthwhile read. It says: One … Continue reading

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Finsoft PCI-C Device

In previous post I wrote about Finsoft PCI-C appliance for compliance with payment card industry data security standard (PCI DSS). Finsoft made available White Paper about this concept and appliance on company’s web site. It gives more details about: applying … Continue reading

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Chinese Professor Cracks SHA-1, Her 5th Encryption Scheme in Ten Years

Article in the Epoch Times (a Chinese newspaper) writes about a brilliant Chinese professor who has cracked her fifth encryption scheme in ten years. There is also post on Slashdot about this. [Thanks to colleague Maksa for bringing this to … Continue reading

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