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Giants-Pats? You wouldn't understand, its a NY-Boston thing

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2008-02-03 22:33:37 by HASH0x8bb3900 in StillSecure, After All These Years
OK, it is Super Bowl Sunday and after that game how can I not write something. Both of these teams played their hearts out there tonight. Wes Welker has the biggest heart for a little man you ever saw. But in the end I think the Giants out Belichick-ed Bill Bellichick by crafting a game plan that ate up the clock, kept the Pats offense off the...
 
Tags: boston, giants, ny-boston, pats, boston fans, giants offense, giants franchise, pats offense, time game
 
 
 
 
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Boston/Cambridge InfoSecurity Events

2007-12-18 19:12:25 by Chris Wysopal in Zero in a bit
 
Software Security Weaknesses - Avoiding and Testing Bob Martin is giving a talk tonight at the Boston Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) meeting on Software Security Weaknesses - Avoiding and Testing. The meeting is at MITRE in Bedford in the basement conference center of M-Building (the one next to the parking garage). Pizza and...
 
Tags: software security weaknesses, boston, cambridge, held, held tomorrow night, patricks day weekend, basement conference center, talk tonight, talk
 
 
 
 
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Boston Court's Meddling With 'Full Disclosure' Is Unwelcome

2008-08-21 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
In eerily similar cases in the Netherlands and the United States, courts have recently grappled with the computer-security norm of "full disclosure," asking whether researchers should be permitted to disclose details of a fare-card vulnerability that allows people to ride the subway for free The "Oyster card" used on the London Tube was at issue...
 
Tags: computer security improves, security improves, computer security, security, mit security researchers, security devices, security holes, disclosure, security properly
 
 
 
 
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Full Disclosure and the Boston Farecard Hack

2008-08-26 06:04:49 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
In eerily similar cases in the Netherlands and the United States, courts have recently grappled with the computer-security norm of "full disclosure," asking whether researchers should be permitted to disclose details of a fare-card vulnerability that allows people to ride the subway for free The "Oyster card" used on the London Tube was at issue...
 
Tags: computer security improves, security improves, computer security, security, mit security researchers, security devices, security holes, disclosure, security properly
 
 
 
 
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Boston Moves to Bubbles of Access

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2008-04-04 09:53:35 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
The term "hotzone" is passé, apparently: The Boston Globe reports that efforts to build a city-wide Wi-Fi network in the cradle of liberty have faltered, with only hundreds of thousands of dollars towards a $15m goal raised; a retailoring of plans for more modest, inexpensive pilots; and the potential departure of the volunteer CEO in favor of...
 
Tags: off-the-shelf hardware, off-the-shelf, components, hardware, open-source components, open-source, proprietary hardware, city, free software
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Topless Meetings; Projects-Fi; Boston Launch; Rural-Fi; Chrysler-Fi; Wi-Fi Chip-Fi

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2008-03-31 15:53:51 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
No laptops allowed: So-called topless (nice sexy term for "laptop-less") meetings are coming into vogue? It's hard to tell if it's a trend, but to judge by conferences I've attended, no one pays attention to anything any more. Banning laptops might be an advantage to promoting shorter meetings--people will be jonesing so hard for their 'top that...
 
Tags: wi-fi, chrysler, 440m wi-fi chipsets, service, ground service, pilot project, project, term wi-fi, push service
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Car-Fi, Boston Ferry-Fi, Thai-Fi

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2008-06-25 13:43:23 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
Chrysler offers automotive Internet access as 2009 model option: All its newest cars and trucks will, for an undisclosed price, act as cellular relays over Wi-Fi. The news was leaked and details should be available tomorrow. The LA Times writer notes that while only passengers should use the Internet while the car is in motion, there's no way to...
 
Tags: kbps upstream, kbps, times writer notes, writer, kbps connections, internet, internet access, 000-hotspot network, evdo rev
 
 
 
 
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DefCon: Boston Subway Officials Sue to Stop Talk on Fare Card Hacks

2008-08-09 15:00:00 by Kim Zetter in Wired Security
 
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority files a federal lawsuit on Friday seeking to block three MIT students from discussing security vulnerabilities in Boston's fare card system at DefCon
 
Tags: fare card system, boston, mit students, security vulnerabilities, federal lawsuit, defcon, friday, block
 
 
 
 
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Judge refuses to lift gag order on MIT students in Boston subway-hack case

2008-08-14 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A federal judge left in place a temporary restraining order barring three MIT students from publicly discussing details of security flaws they found in the e-ticketing system used by Boston's mass transit authority
 
Tags: mit students, mass transit authority, boston, security flaws, federal judge, system, details, temporary, publicly
 
 
 
 
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Boston College converts chapel into high security data center