Robert Lemos

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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It’s Friday morning and things have become a bit clearer. Law enforcement officers in the U.K. have arrested 24 people suspected of planning to blow up planes using liquid explosives disguised as drinks, hair gel and other consumer products.

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Announced at the DEFCON hacking conference, a tool dubbed VoodooNet hides a small amount of data in IPv6 error messages, where most security devices do not even look.
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Companies that make distributed, real-time control systems–a key part of many nations’ critical infrastructure–may be forced by their customers to provide better security.
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A brief analysis of the National Security Agency’s eavesdropping program using Bayes Theorem concluded that the program has no value for fighting terrorism, but seems to make the mistake of assuming the program operates in a vacuum.

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Vulnerability researchers bring in US-CERT to referee the outing of an infrastructure bug, ruffling feathers as vendors and researchers clash over how disclosure should be handled. Sound familiar?
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It has all the makings of a B-movie plot: A corporate network targeted by hackers and a half dozen high-school students as the company’s only defense.
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I saw this post over at the EmergentChaos blog and wanted to provide some different numbers. Basically, Adam estimates that 8.9 percent of the U.S. population is affected by the recent data leak at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Actually, the percentage at risk is a bit higher, if you look at the right population.

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The records of nearly 26.5 million veterans–including names, social security numbers and dates of birth–were stolen from the home of a federal employee.
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Concerns raised by a rural county in Utah helped an electronic voting watchdog discover a critical vulnerability in Diebold Election Systems’ touchscreen terminal–a flaw that state election officials and security experts warn could pose a risk to elections.
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