Monthly Archives: August 2007

A/V Research on Detecting File Infections Was a Waste Time?

This is really interesting reading: invisiblethings’ blog: Tricky Tricks. Joanna Rutkowska says: … So, do I want to say that all those years of A/V research on detecting file infections was a waste time? I’m afraid that is exactly what … Continue reading

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The Ethics of Perfection

Interesting blog post from Steve Lipner: The Security Development Lifecycle : The Ethics of Perfection. He says in conclusion: What does all this have to do with ethics?  Well, I think that given the choice between shipping perfectly secure software (whatever … Continue reading

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Bruce Schneier’s DefCon 15 LED Speaker Badge on eBay Auction

Bruce Schneier’s DefCon 15 Speaker Badge can be bought on eBay auction.  The badge contains a programmable LED with up to 14 characters.  It uses two Li batteries (included), and was designed by Joe Grand. If you wish it, hurry … Continue reading

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Google Mistakes Own Blog for Spam, Deletes It

This looks like true story, but might be Google - Yahoo battle. Anyway, it is nice to read story about Google at Yahoo: Google mistakes own blog for spam, deletes it – Yahoo! News. It says: Readers of Google’s Custom Search Blog were … Continue reading

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NSA Pushes Elliptic-Curve Cryptography to Secure Small Devices and Lend Support to Interoperable Communication Networks

Although the cryptographic security standards used in public-key infrastructures, RSA and Diffie-Hellman, have not been cracked, they were introduced in the 1970s and there is growing concern that the standards may soon be outdated. Consequently, the National Security Agency wants … Continue reading

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Ericsson Interception Management System Manual

This sounds unbelievable but document marked as strictly confidential, Ericsson Interception Management System Manual is available for free download from Internet. I don’t know is that obsolete document or valid, but anyway it is very surprising that you can obtain document … Continue reading

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CORDIS FP7 Cooperation: Security

EU is going to inject over €9bn to boost European Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are critical to creating jobs and improving quality of life across Europe. Although the ICT sector is itself worth 6-8% … Continue reading

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SDL and the Unconcerned Pragmatic Fundamentalist

There is interesting article at SDL blog titled: SDL and the Unconcerned Pragmatic Fundamentalist. Related to this is the research done by privacy expert Dr. Alan Westin. Westin divided the respondents of performed survey into the following categories: The Privacy Fundamentalists: Fundamentalists … Continue reading

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Security Public Relations Excuse Bingo

Funny (from Matt Blaze and Jutta Degener): Security Public Relations Excuse Bingo.

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The Athens Affair: Cell-Network Break-In

In IEEE Spectrum, July 2007 issue, there is interesting article how some extremely smart hackers pulled off the most audacious cell-network break-in ever. It is still unknown who pulled off the most audacious network hack ever, but here’s (IEEE Spectrum: … Continue reading

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