Robert Lemos

A report funded by computer firmware developer Phoenix Technologies finds that the ability to identify users’ computers, a key capability of trusted computing hardware, could eliminate the most damaging digital attacks.
SecurityFocus

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Defining success in your own life can be fairly straightforward: Figure out what goals matter to you and achieve them. However, for the competitive set–you know, the ones who ask all the milestone questions at high-school reunions–comparing your level of success with others is very difficult: Does my eight kids trump my boss’s vice president [...]

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Employees and home users are the weakest link in computer security. People browse to unsafe sites. They give out their passwords for a free pen. They accept CD-ROMs from strangers and run the disc on a company computer. In each case, the employee is falling for the proverbial Trojan horse—a lure that the enemy hopes [...]

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Most people in the security world have heard of TEMPEST systems, whether in reference to attacks that aim to eavesdrop on computer technology by sniffing the electromagnetic signals that leak from all computers or the defensive standard for foiling such attacks. But it’s not everyday that you can see a demo of the attack.

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Users of the increasingly popular Ubuntu distribution find themselves having to deal with the command-line terminal after an update breaks the graphical X Windows subsystem.
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UPDATE: The software giant rushes to fix a security hole introduced during its latest patch for Internet Explorer that opens Windows XP SP1 and Windows 2000 users to attack.
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Anyone with kids knows that if you repeat something enough times, it sticks (or drives the parent to distraction, but that’s another post). So the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and their British equivalent should not be surprised at the latest list of stories now appearing describing a mixed bag of perceived threats. But this [...]

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For some, DRM stands for Down-Right Maddening. Here’s why you should think twice about downloading DRM-protected files.
PC Magazine

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This will be a bit of departure for my normal all-security-all-the-time (though, not too far). Lawrence Lessing, founder of the Center for Internet and Society and a professor of law at Stanford University, gave the opening keynote at LinuxWorld on Tuesday, and frankly, the presentation was one of the better ones that I’ve seen in [...]

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Security firms advise companies and home users to patch their Windows systems after detecting a bot program using a recently fixed flaw to compromise computers.
SecurityFocus

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