Automobile Security Analysis
May 21st, 2010 admin
“Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile,” by a whole mess of authors: Abstract: Modern automobiles are no longer mere mechanical devices; they are pervasively monitored and controlled by dozens of digital computers coordinated via internal vehicular networks. While this transformation has driven major advancements in efficiency and safety, it has also introduced a range of new potential risks. In…
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The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee introduced legislation on Tuesday to prohibit the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing software across all federal government computers and networks. The “Secure Federal File Sharing Act” would direct the White House’s Office of Management and Budget to issue...
The new National Security Strategy (.pdf) says the following about “cyberspace”: Secure Cyberspace Cybersecurity threats represent one of the most serious national security, public safety, and economic challenges we face as a nation. The very technologies that empower us to lead and create also empower those who would disrupt and destroy....
Amazon.com just posted my four star review of Handbook of Digital Forensics and Investigation by Eoghan Casey and colleagues. From the review : I’ve probably read and reviewed a dozen or so good digital forensics books over the last decade, and I’ve written a few books on that topic or related ones. The Handbook of Digital Forensics...
In British Columbia: When Auditor-General John Doyle and his staff investigated the security of electronic record-keeping at the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, they found trouble everywhere they looked. “In every key area we examined, we found serious weaknesses,” wrote Doyle. “Security controls throughout the network and over...
This essay in The New York Times is refreshingly cogent: You’ve seen it over and over. At a certain intersection in a certain town, there’ll be an unfortunate accident. A child is hit by a car. So the public cries out, the town politicians band together, and the next thing you know, they’ve spent $60,000 to install speed bumps, guardrails…...
They’re vulnerable to fraud….
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“Smudge Attacks on Smartphone Touch Screens”: Abstract: Touch screens are an increasingly common feature on personal computing devices, especially smartphones, where size and user interface advantages accrue from consolidating multiple hardware components (keyboard, number pad, etc.) into a single software definable user interface. Oily...
New legislation expected to be introduced today would give the Homeland Security Department broad new authorities and powers over federal civilian networks. The bill, however, does not include a “kill switch” for private sector networks, as widely reported previously. The legislation, Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010,...
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There’s a new threat that spreads via USB storage devices, by exploiting a previously unknown flaw in Windows shortcuts . We have added detection for the shortcut LNK exploit as Exploit:W32/WormLink.A. The shortcut file used in this case is 4.1 KB. Files associated with the trojan-dropper, backdoor, rootkit are detected as the Stuxnet family....
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alexandrnikitin (Alexander Nikitin) : lj: Parental Fears: via Schneier from NPR: Based on surveys Barnes collected, the top five worries of parents are... http://bit.ly/cdF41O.. Updated : 2010-09-09T13:47:46Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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