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Judges consider whether FBI violated free speech in ISP case

2008-08-28 23:20:52 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
A panel of federal appeals court judges pushed a U.S. government lawyer on Wednesday to answer why FBI letters sent out to Internet service providers seeking information should remain secret
 
Tags: internet service providers, remain secret, fbi letters, government lawyer, answer, information, panel, wednesday
 
 
 
 
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Why Adam gets more spam than Eve

2008-08-28 13:00:44 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Email addresses that begin with letters towards the end of the alphabet receive less spam than those starting with letters towards the end, says Richard Clayton at the University of Cambridge
 
Tags: spam, letters, richard clayton, email addresses, alphabet receive, university, cambridge
 
 
 
 
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Lasers Could Send World's Most Secure Messages Through Space

2008-08-27 15:40:02 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
New experiments using Heisenberg's uncertainty principle extend the range of quantum cryptography, an advanced method of communicating in unbreakable code. Finding a way to keep snoops from tapping into other people's information is a challenge that has gone to the subatomic level. First proposed in 1984, quantum cryptography (QC) promises to send
 
Tags: quantum cryptography, uncertainty principle extend, subatomic level, unbreakable code, promises, information, range, people, challenge
 
 
 
 
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Bank Details of 1 Million Customers Sold on eBay

2008-08-27 14:35:34 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Personal details of more than 1 million customers of Royal Bank of Scotland, American Express and NatWest are found on a computer sold on auction site eBay
 
Tags: million customers, auction site ebay, personal details, american express, royal bank, scotland, computer
 
 
 
 
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Forgot your password? may be weakest link in web security

2008-08-27 13:27:57 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Almost everyone forgets a Web site password once in a while. When you do, you click on the familiar Forgot your password? link. As an experiment, Thompson recently asked a few friends for permission to "hack" into their bank accounts. Using only information gathered from Web sites such as Facebook, he found his way in to each account within minutes
 
Tags: password, web site password, thompson recently, link, bank accounts, web sites, experiment, friends, hack
 
 
 
 
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NASA infected with W32.TGammima.AG

2008-08-27 12:26:18 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
A computer worm that ferrets out passwords managed to stow away on laptops aboard the International Space Station, NASA has confirmed. It is not the first time a NASA computer has become infected
 
Tags: nasa, nasa computer, international space station, laptops aboard, computer worm, stow, passwords, time, ferrets
 
 
 
 
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Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole

2008-08-27 08:10:02 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency. The demonstration is the latest attack to highlight fundamental security weaknesses in some of the web's core protocols
 
Tags: national security agency, scale previously, intelligence agencies, security researchers, core protocols, attack, technique, demonstration, unavailable
 
 
 
 
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That Password-Protected Site Of Yours - It Ain't Protected

2008-08-24 17:21:41 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
It's one of the simplest hacks we've seen in a long time, and the more elite computer users have known about it for a while, but it's still kinda cool and just a little bit unnerving: A hacker has revealed a way to use Google and other search engines to gain unauthorized access to password-protected content on a dizzying number of websites
 
Tags: elite computer users, engines, google, access, bit, time, content, gain, cool
 
 
 
 
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Thousands of Personal Records Being Lost Each Month

2008-08-24 15:10:19 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
More than 160 "significant" incidents of confidential data being misplaced by councils, central government and businesses have been reported to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) since last November
 
Tags: confidential data, information commissioner, central government, ico, businesses, incidents, councils, office, significant
 
 
 
 
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Firefox 3 Highlights Websites Security Failings

2008-08-24 02:10:45 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Theres a contentious debate brewing around Firefox 3s handling of SSL security certificates the tools that tell the browser whether your connection is actually secure and connected to the site youre trying to access