Category Archives: Security

See Through Wall with Wifi

That’s very impressive: Researchers at the University of Utah have found a way to see through walls to detect movement inside a building.

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The Building Security In Maturity Model

The Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM), a new model that is a “collection of good ideas and activities that are in use today” to determine the state of software security in an organisation. This maturity model provides a way … Continue reading

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Physical Security Maxims

From Bruce Schneier’s Blog. This is a copy from here. Physical Security Maxims Roger G. Johnston, Ph.D., CPP Vulnerability Assessment Team Argonne National Laboratory rogerj@anl.gov     630-252-6168 http://www.ne.anl.gov/capabilities/vat http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/musicfiles/preprints/Johnston/securitymaxims.ppt Security Maxims The following maxims, based on our experience with physical security, … Continue reading

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Workshop on Security and Human Behaviour 2008

At the moment I am especially interested in security and human behaviour (there’s a good article to start in German on zeit.de: Die Konjunktur der Ängste). Ross Anderson and Bruce Schneier were blogging about this workshop, where a lot of … Continue reading

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The Six Dumbest Ideas In Computer Security

Old, but good: Marcus Ranum’s “The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security”.

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Hacking A Coffee Maker

Someone hacked a Jura F90 Coffee maker.

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How To Open An Electronic Lock?

Just take a magnetic ring. You can find additional information here. We had (!) such a lock at the office, but it was removed and replaced by a much more secure device These are the kind of attacks/hacks I really … Continue reading

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Cracking 1024-bit RSA Key?

Kaspersky Lab is launching an international distributed effort to crack a 1024-bit RSA key used by the Gpcode Virus. From their website: We estimate it would take around 15 million modern computers, running for about a year, to crack such … Continue reading

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Attacks On Infrastructure

This article in Technology Review (German) describes the emerging problems of infrastructural assets like power plants when they are connected to the internet for economic reasons. When SCADA systems are controlable from remote we will experience serious attacks in future. … Continue reading

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