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Stuxnet News
From Schneier on Security

Stuxnet News

Another piece of the puzzle: New research, published late last week, has established that Stuxnet searches for frequency converter drives made by Fararo Paya of...

Friday Squid Blogging: Flying Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Flying Squid

Photographic evidence from Jamaica.

Me on Cyberwar
From Schneier on Security

Me on Cyberwar

Last week, I gave a talk on cyberwar and cyberconflict at the Institute for International and European Affairs in Dublin. Here's the video. It was only the second...

TSA Backscatter X-ray Backlash
From Schneier on Security

TSA Backscatter X-ray Backlash

Things are happening so fast that I don't know if I should bother. But here are some links and observations. The head of the Allied Pilots Association is telling...

Airplane Terrorism Twenty Years Ago
From Schneier on Security

Airplane Terrorism Twenty Years Ago

Excellent: Here's a scenario: Middle Eastern terrorists hijack a U.S. jetliner bound for Italy. A two-week drama ensues in which the plane's occupants are split...

Unsolicited Terrorism Tips to the U.S. Government
From Schneier on Security

Unsolicited Terrorism Tips to the U.S. Government

Adding them all up, the U.S. government "receives between 8,000 and 10,000 pieces of information per day, fingering just as many different people as potential threats...

New Biometric
From Schneier on Security

New Biometric

Eye movements instead of eye structures. The new system tracks the way a person's eye moves as he watches an icon roam around a computer screen. The way the icon...

Security Haiku
From Schneier on Security

Security Haiku

These could surely be better. Anyone?

Term Paper Writing for Hire
From Schneier on Security

Term Paper Writing for Hire

This recent essay (commentary here) reminded me of this older essay, both by people who write student term papers for hire. There are several services that dopersonal...

Internet Quarantines
From Schneier on Security

Internet Quarantines

Last month, Scott Charney of Microsoft proposed that infected computers be quarantined from the Internet. Using a public health model for Internet security, the...

Friday Squid Blogging: Tentacle Pot Pie
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Tentacle Pot Pie

Nice.

Albert Gonzalez
From Schneier on Security

Albert Gonzalez

Long article on convicted hacker Albert Gonzalez from The New York Times Magazine.

Camouflaging Test Cars
From Schneier on Security

Camouflaging Test Cars

Interesting: In an effort to shield their still-secret products from prying eyes, automakers testing prototype models, often in the desert and at other remote...

Bulletproof Service Providers
From Schneier on Security

Bulletproof Service Providers

From Brian Krebs: Hacked and malicious sites designed to steal data from unsuspecting users via malware and phishing are a dime a dozen, often located in the United...

Changing Passwords
From Schneier on Security

Changing Passwords

How often should you change your password? I get asked that question a lot, usually by people annoyed at their employer's or bank's password expiration policy:choose...

Removing Belts at Airport Security
From Schneier on Security

Removing Belts at Airport Security

The TSA is making us remove our belts even when we don't have to. European airports have made us remove our belts for years. My normal tactic is to pull my shirt...

Securing the Washington Monument
From Schneier on Security

Securing the Washington Monument

Good article on security options for the Washington Monument: Unfortunately, the bureaucratic gears are already grinding, and what will be presented to the public...

Crowdsourcing Surveillance
From Schneier on Security

Crowdsourcing Surveillance

Internet Eyes is a U.K. startup designed to crowdsource digital surveillance. People pay a small fee to become a "Viewer." Once they do, they can log onto the site...

Kahn, Diffie, Clark, and Me at Bletchley Park
From Schneier on Security

Kahn, Diffie, Clark, and Me at Bletchley Park

Saturday, I visited Bletchley Park to speak at the Annual ACCU Security Fundraising Conference. They had a stellar line of speakers this year, and I was pleased...

Young Man in "Old Man" Mask Boards Plane in Hong Kong
From Schneier on Security

Young Man in "Old Man" Mask Boards Plane in Hong Kong

It's kind of an amazing story. A young Asian man used a rubber mask to disguise himself as an old Caucasian man and, with a passport photo that matched his disguise...
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