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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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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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Passenger Says He Hacked Windows In New York Taxi Display Screen

2007-12-28 14:02:19 by Editor in Security Links
 
A software engineer says he accessed a New York City cabs video display system files after seeing an error message on the screen By K.C. Jones InformationWeek December 27, 2007 03:10 PM A New York City software engineer managed to gain access to the operating system for a touch-screen display available in the back seat of many Manhattan...
 
Tags: display, display systems vendor, display systems, credit card, card, sensitive information, information, display system, credit card information
 
 
 
 
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Shimel - the NAC prophet?

2008-02-29 07:13:27 by HASH0x8b6a3a0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
I saw an article up in ComputerWorld by Greg Schaffer today called NAC: now or later . I have spoken to Greg several times so wanted to see what he had to say. The article was about NAC standards and mentioned and quoted Steve Hanna (can you have an article on NAC standards without Steve?) and for the first time that I have seen in print,...
 
Tags: nac, nac prophet, nac band wagon, nac standards, nap support, nap, nap functionality fare, microsoft server, server
 
 
 
 
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Obama's Pet Projects: Lasers, Hybrid Hummers

2008-03-13 23:40:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
In addition to the standard fare, Sen. Barack Obama's legislative earmarks, which were released today, include money for laser development and the conversion of military equipment to fuel cells and hybrid power
 
Tags: hybrid power, fuel cells, military equipment, include money, barack obama, standard fare, legislative earmarks, laser development, addition
 
 
 
 
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BART Wi-Fi Access Moves Closer in Bay Area

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2008-04-09 06:39:32 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
WiFi Rail may sign contract with Bay Area Rapid Transit soon: That's typical marketing fare from many companies, to pre-announce deals, but a BART official confirmed the state of negotiations in this Sacramento Bee article. I had a long talk with the WiFi Rail folks a few months ago, and they sent me some fascinating video of a live four-way...
 
Tags: wifi rail, wifi rail relies, bee, sacramento bee article, contract, sign contract, wifi rail folks, overlaid wi-fi signals, months ago
 
 
 
 
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Where are the Security Dashboards for Cloud Services?

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2008-04-17 18:55:44 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
I received an email today from Amazon Web Services (AWS) Support announcing new support offerings. One item that caught my attention is the new Service Health Dashboard The dashboard is pretty standard fare - traffic lights to show availability for each Amazon service with a historical view available at the bottom This is good and all but where...
 
Tags: availability, service availability dashboard, dashboard, security dashboard, security metrics, service health dashboard, support offerings, amazon web services, support
 
 
 
 
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Oh No! Security Metrics!

2008-04-18 12:43:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
Hello, Michael here A colleague sent me a link to a blog post from a couple of days ago: Pete Lindstrom of Burton Group blogged that Microsoft's SDL has Saved the World!! raising concerns about Microsoft using vulnerability counts as a means to measure security improvement resulting from the SDL I've raised this topic before, in my blog post The...
 
Tags: bugs, implementation bugs, fewer security bugs, fewer, security bugs include, security, metrics, security metrics, security bugs
 
 
 
 
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Nobody Is That Dumb ... Oh, Wait X

2008-05-05 14:26:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -