Monthly Archives: January 2008

2008 Norbert Wiener Award Given to Bruce Schneier

In 1987, Computer Professionals For Social Responsiblity (CPSR) began a tradition to recognize outstanding contributions for social responsibility in computing technology. The organization wanted to cite people who recognize the importance of a science-educated public, who take a broader view … Continue reading

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CfP ECRA Social Networks and Web 2.0

There is interesting call for papers for an Elsevier’s special issue of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications on Social Networks and Web 2.0. You can submit your manuscripts online. Papers will be reviewed and published depending of reviewers’ decisions. It will cover … Continue reading

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Facebook Privacy Problems

In recent post on this blog, I described some of StumbleUpon privacy risks. BBC Technology News now have article about privacy problem related to Facebook, another social networking tool. Under title Facebook faces privacy questions they talk that Facebook is to be … Continue reading

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Validated FIPS 140-1 and FIPS 140-2 Cryptographic Modules

See list of Validated 140-1 and 140-2 Cryptographic Modules. You’ll find there that the standard crypto providers such as DSSENH and RSAENH are now certified FIPS 140-2 on Windows Vista.

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Linux Security Expert Joins Core Windows Security Team

It seems that Microsoft is going to attract Linux Security experts to join and to bring different perspective to Widnows security. Recently, Crispin Cowan, who is responsible for a number of very well respected Linux-based security technologies such as StackGuard, the … Continue reading

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StumbleUpon Privacy Risks

Be careful, be very careful when use social networking sites! Some social networking sites and some sites that pretend to be social networking, but are marketing profiling sites, may pose huge privacy risk. I will talk here about very popular … Continue reading

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Michael Howard from Microsoft Analyzes Recent Symantec and IBM Vulnerabilities

One of main persons behind Microsoft SDL, Michael Howard analyzes recent Symantec and IBM Vulnerabilities in his post on MSDN SDL blog. Michael says: The vulnerabilities are not in Symantec code, yet Symantec customers are still open to attack. The … Continue reading

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