Information and System Security Blog

WikiLeaks and the forgotten promise of the Net

2010-12-16T07:50:00.000+01:00

WikiLeaks and the forgotten promise of the net

Understanding the Internet's insecure routing infrastructure

2010-11-29T10:56:00.001+01:00

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Anti-wi-fi paint offers security

2009-10-02T09:26:00.000+02:00

SSL trick certificate published

2009-10-02T09:24:00.001+02:00

Valve Survey Summary

2007-09-02T07:00:00.000+02:00

Valve Survey Summary: "40 Gb to 49.9 Gb"

Storm Worm Dwarfs World's Top Supercomputers - Security Fix

2007-09-02T06:56:00.000+02:00

Storm Worm Dwarfs World's Top Supercomputers - Security Fix: "'People aren't respecting the threat this thing represents,' Baldwin said. 'But when you pit it against the biggest military and government supercomputing resources, they're like a speck on the back of a fly compared to the power that's under the control of this one criminal group.'"

The future of money | A cash call | Economist.com

2007-02-19T21:07:00.000+01:00

The future of money | A cash call | Economist.com

Wireless Internet for All, Without the Towers - New York Times

2007-02-04T21:24:00.000+01:00

Wireless Internet for All, Without the Towers - New York Times: "Wireless Internet for All, Without the Towers"

Internet pushes concept of 'free' content - Print Version - International Herald Tribune

2007-01-18T15:58:00.000+01:00

Internet pushes concept of 'free' content - Print Version - International Herald Tribune: "Realizing that it was impossible to sell 'FIFA Online' in a country where piracy is rampant, Electronic Arts started giving away the game last spring. Once the players were hooked, the company offered for sale ways to gain an edge on opponents; extending the career of a star player, for instance, costs less than $1. Since May, Electronic Arts has sold 700,000 of these enhancements."

The logic of privacy

2007-01-06T22:24:00.000+01:00

Personal data | The logic of privacy | Economist.com: "How, what and why, indeed. Yet, in all these situations, most people feel a sense of unease. The technology for gathering, storing, manipulating and sharing information has become part of the scenery, but there is little guidance on how to resolve the conflicts created by all the personal data now washing around."

Click Fraud

2006-12-08T00:52:00.000+01:00

The dark side of online advertising

Taking Aim at Targeted Advertising

2006-11-26T18:34:00.000+01:00

Online advertisers have a sweet tooth for cookies. Not the kind you bake, but the digital kind—those tiny files that embed themselves on a PC and keep tabs on what Web sites are visited on which machines. They're useful because they help marketers tailor which ads are served to which users.

But cookies could have a bad aftertaste for consumers. Privacy advocates say the files are being force fed in large quantities to computer users, and they're demanding that the government put some advertisers on a diet.

The Dark Side of Second Life

2006-11-21T16:48:00.000+01:00

Software that lets residents copy others' possessions is the latest reminder that this virtual world may need tougher law enforcement

'Second Life' faces threat to its virtual economy

2006-11-15T18:34:00.001+01:00

Groups of Second Life content creators were gathering digitally Tuesday to protest the dissemination of a program they worry could badly damage the virtual world's nascent economy.

Ballot Roulette

2006-11-09T23:58:00.000+01:00

Computer scientists and mathematicians look for better ways to vote

Transparent, High Integrity, Open Source Elections

2006-11-07T00:13:00.000+01:00

Welcome to the new age of elections. Punchscan is an optical scan voting system invented by David Chaum that allows voters to take a piece of the ballot home with them as a receipt. This receipt does not allow voters to prove how they voted to others, but it does permit them to:

* Verify that they have properly indicated their votes to election officials (cast-as-intended).
* Verify with extremely high assurance that all votes were counted properly (counted-as-cast).

Punchscan Voting in a Nutshell
Voting in a Punchscan election is easy enough to show you in 15 seconds. [watch]

Banks facing fines over ID thefts

2006-10-28T17:22:00.001+02:00

Anonymous browsing -- Torpark browser (Firefox spin-off)

2006-09-24T17:34:00.000+02:00

http://torpark.nfshost.com/

The non-denial of the non-self

2006-09-04T15:44:00.000+02:00

FULL ARTICLE

Negative Databases

2006-09-04T15:42:00.000+02:00

http://esa.ackleyshack.com/ndb/

Cloudmark - Anti Spam and Spam Blocker Solutions

2006-08-18T00:08:00.000+02:00

Cloudmark - Anti Spam and Spam Blocker Solutions: "Authority blocks spam and phishing emails at the gateway before they can penetrate user inboxes. Real-time data feeds from the Cloudmark Collaborative Network of millions of users, coupled with highly optimized fingerprints ensure the highest spam detection rates and the fastest possible response to spam and phishing attacks."

Cameroon registry accused of typo-squatting .com | CNET News.com

2006-08-08T23:53:00.000+02:00

Cameroon registry accused of typo-squatting .com | CNET News.com: "erican attorney, John Berryhill, who on Saturday wrote on the Internet infrastructure blog CircleID: 'The .cm (Cameroon) ccTLD operators have discovered that since their TLD is simply one omitted letter away from .com, that there is a gold mine in the typo traffic that comes their w"

Security '06 Technical Sessions

2006-08-07T12:13:00.000+02:00

Security '06 Technical Sessions: "
Academic Department or Corporate Lab, Which Fits?

Bill Aiello, Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science,
University of British Columbia
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Content

2006-08-05T02:11:00.000+02:00

Content

6th Annual PKI R&D Workshop - Call for Papers

2006-08-05T02:04:00.000+02:00

6th Annual PKI R&D Workshop - Call for Papers: "Call for Papers"

EuroPKI 2006 Program

2006-08-05T01:49:00.000+02:00

EuroPKI 2006 Program

Brindle on Security

2006-08-02T00:59:00.000+02:00

Brindle on Security: "Just about any Mandatory Access Control (MAC) advocate will tell you that their ultimate security goal is least privilege. Least privilege has become a metaphorical holy grail in the security industry. Least privilege, in its unadulterated form is giving each user, process and so on the exact access it needs and no more."

Brindle on Security

2006-08-02T00:58:00.000+02:00

Brindle on Security: "I’ll be the first to say I’m not a policy developer. The process of actually writing policy is not at all interesting to me, fortunately for me there are people like Chris PeBenito, Russell Coker, et al that seem to enjoy this. I am interested, however, in how policies are developed."

CFP

2006-08-01T16:46:00.000+02:00

Events: Workshops, Symposiums...

2006-08-01T16:28:00.000+02:00