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Measuring Identity Theft
Chris Hoofnagle, of the Berkeley Center for Law And Technology just published a fascinating report entitled " Measuring Identity Theft at Top Banks ." If you have not already, and you are at all interested in security and privacy, you owe it...
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Fri, Feb 29 2008 5:20 PM
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Q&A with Amazon about the Server 2008 Security Resource Kit
Yesterday the editor from the IT section at Amazon.com sent me some questions about the Windows Server 2008 Security Resource Kit. The answers will eventually go on the book detail page . The questions, particularly questions 3 - 6, were interesting and...
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Thu, Feb 28 2008 11:08 AM
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Resource Kit Done!
Last Friday the last of the Windows Server 2008 Security Resource Kit finally went to press! This was a project I had not really planned and so, to complete it in time, I brought in an amazing crew of co-authors. Together, we managed to put together 17...
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Thu, Feb 14 2008 11:40 PM
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Mitigate the Image Uploader Vulnerabilities
The big security news this week is the six vulnerabilities found in various image uploader ActiveX controls. In case you haven't seen the news , there are exploits available publicly for remote vulnerabilities in five different ActiveX controls. US...
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Wed, Feb 06 2008 1:07 PM
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Write down your passwords
A few years back I caused quite a stir when I mentioned in passing during a presentation that writing down your password is a really good idea. A journalist in the room decided that saying so qualified me as insane, and my employer sending an insane person...
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Mon, Feb 04 2008 7:09 PM
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Theft-proof biometrics
At last, there is a biometric authentication technique that cannot be stolen. Or, well, it can, but at least it won't work any longer. Drs. Philip M. Rodwell and Steven M. Furnell recently published "A non-intrusive biometric authentication mechanism...
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Mon, Feb 04 2008 12:56 PM
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