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Epsilon Hack
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Epsilon Hack

I have no idea why the Epsilon hack is getting so much press. Yes, millions of names and e-mail addresses might have been stolen. Yes, other customer information...

Reducing Bribery by Legalizing the Giving of Bribes
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Reducing Bribery by Legalizing the Giving of Bribes

Here's some very clever thinking from India's chief economic adviser. In order to reduce bribery, he proposes legalizing the giving of bribes: Under the current...

Ebook Fraud
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Ebook Fraud

Interesting post -- and discussion -- on Making Light about ebook fraud. Currently there are two types of fraud. The first is content farming, discussed in these...

Friday Squid Blogging: Shower Squid
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Friday Squid Blogging: Shower Squid

Neat.

34 SCADA Vulnerabilities Published
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34 SCADA Vulnerabilities Published

It's hard to tell how serious this is. Computer security experts who examined the code say the vulnerabilities are not highly dangerous on their own, because they...

Comodo Group Issues Bogus SSL Certificates
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Comodo Group Issues Bogus SSL Certificates

This isn't good: The hacker, whose March 15 attack was traced to an IP address in Iran, compromised a partner account at the respected certificate authority Comodo...

FBI Asks for Cryptanalysis Help
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FBI Asks for Cryptanalysis Help

Could be interesting.

How Peer Review Doesn't Work
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How Peer Review Doesn't Work

In this amusing story of a terrorist plotter using pencil-and-paper cryptography instead of actually secure cryptography, there's this great paragraph: Despite...

Federated Authentication
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Federated Authentication

New paper by Ross Anderson: "Can We Fix the Security Economics of Federated Authentication?": There has been much academic discussion of federated authentication...

Detecting Liars
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Detecting Liars

Nice infographic.

Biliteral Ciphers
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Biliteral Ciphers

Interesting article on William Friedman and biliteral ciphers.

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fabric Designs
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fabric Designs

Some of these are actually nice.

Authenticating the Authenticators
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Authenticating the Authenticators

This is an interesting read: It was a question that changed his life, and changed mine, and may have changed -- even saved -- all of ours by calling attention...

Identifying Tor Users Through Insecure Applications
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Identifying Tor Users Through Insecure Applications

Interesting research: "One Bad Apple Spoils the Bunch: Exploiting P2P Applications to Trace and Profile Tor Users": Abstract: Tor is a popular low-latency anonymity...

Detecting Words and Phrases in Encrypted VoIP Calls
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Detecting Words and Phrases in Encrypted VoIP Calls

Interesting: Abstract: Although Voice over IP (VoIP) is rapidly being adopted, its security implications are not yet fully understood. Since VoIP calls may traverse...

Transmitting Data Through Steel
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Transmitting Data Through Steel

This is cool: Tristan Lawry, doctoral candidate in electrical and computer engineering, has developed equipment which can transmit data at high rates through thick...

Threats vs. Vulnerabilities
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Threats vs. Vulnerabilities

I found this article on the difference between threats and vulnerabilities to be very interesting. I like his taxonomy.

Folk Models in Home Computer Security
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Folk Models in Home Computer Security

This is a really interesting paper: "Folk Models of Home Computer Security," by Rick Wash. It was presented at SOUPS, the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security...

Times Square Video Screen Hacked with an iPhone
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Times Square Video Screen Hacked with an iPhone

I didn't post about it when I first saw it because I suspected a hoax. Turns out, I was right. It wasn't even two guys faking hacking a Times Square video screen...

RSA Security, Inc Hacked
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RSA Security, Inc Hacked

The company, not the algorithm. Here's the corporate spin. Our investigation has led us to believe that the attack is in the category of an Advanced Persistent...
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