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Giving Out Replacement Hotel Keys

2008-11-13 12:12:22 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...replacement key and, if the guest doesn't have his wallet with him, have someone walk to the room with the key and check their ID This normally works pretty well, but there's a court case in Brisbane right now about a hotel giving a room key to someone who ended up sexually attacking the woman who had rented the room. In civil action launched...
 
Tags: hotel, hotel staff, key, spare access key, hotel staffer, keys, replacement key, woman alleges, woman
 
 
 
 
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XBOX 360 Dies Again

2007-08-26 21:57:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...replacement Talismoon fan from llama.com and found a spot on the board to solder it to, which will circumvent the variable speed fan controller The replacement fans are supposedly quitter, but they will be moving from a 5V variable speed controller to a 12V power source. I hope it ends up with about the same noise profile, but at least Ill...
 
Tags: fan shroud, fan, rear fan, replacement talismoon fan, days ago, fix, days, xbox, gpu
 
 
 
 
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Citizens Advice stolen laptop was encrypted

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2007-12-13 13:37:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...replacement logon GINA (thus providing reasonable protection against password cracking). I have had the pleasure to use both Utimaco and Pointsec in different deployments, and both offer valuable features. The key is key management (no pun intended Assuming that key management is handled securely (i.e. no password written on the laptop),...
 
Tags: laptop encryption, laptop encryption software, advice, encryption, encryption product, citizens advice, laptop, sought advice, personal data
 
 
 
 
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Windows Live OneCare has a Broken Light

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2008-01-16 04:27:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
...replacement firewall, you get a more reasonable option Anyway, once you turn off the firewall, the taskbar icon glows red until you turn it back on. That's pure goodness What bothers me about OneCare is that, at least for me, the taskbar icon glows yellow all the time. At first, I'd always go look at the OneCare dashboard to see what was...
 
Tags: onecare, windows, windows live onecare, contact onecare support, onecare dashboard, light, wrong, firewall, replacement firewall
 
 
 
 
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"Crawling" Toward SDL

2008-03-06 22:13:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...replacement Run these tools habitually PREfast (in Visual Studio 2005, use the /analyze compiler option) a static analysis tool that identifies defects in C/C++ programs and enables you to perform quick desktop error detection on small code bases FxCop an application that analyzes managed code assemblies (code that targets the .NET Framework...
 
Tags: sdl, security, perform security analysis, application security, application, applications security, security issues, issues, non-microsoft sdl engagements
 
 
 
 
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Vendor disk failure rates: Myth or metric?

2008-04-04 05:19:32 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Using mean time between failure as a way to measure disk drive reliability is misleading to end users who are being told their drives will last 1 million to 1.5 million hours, or 114 to 170 years. One study found that some disk drive replacement rates were greater than one in 10 and grew steadily with age
 
Tags: million hours, disk drive replacement, million, failure, steadily, time, users, age, study
 
 
 
 
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Software Security Metrics and Commentary on "Metrics Framework" Paper

2007-09-17 20:41:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...replacement metrics for 5 of the 10 in the paper. In Part-2 I'll take on the next 5 as well as discuss some other thoughts on what metrics matter for measuring web application security The paper is actually a good introduction on how to think about measuring software security, but I think a few of the metrics miss the mark slightly In the...
 
Tags: metrics, software security metrics, metrics framework, metrics miss, design-time metric, design, upstream sdl metrics, application, web application security
 
 
 
 
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Virtual Environment User Based Access Controls

2008-02-03 19:34:33 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
 
...replacement switches But what about these new things called Virtual Switches? Can they control user activity also? What if you've invested in LAN based solutions from Cisco, Consentry, Nevis and others for your NAC solution but are now thinking about moving to VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure)? Does that NAC solution do you any good?...
 
Tags: user, strict policy control, control, specific user, control user activity, access, access controls, user access, virtual desktop
 
 
 
 
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Milton Security Group takes over Vernier EdgeWall 7000 support - Who is Milton Security?

2008-04-11 22:13:00 by HASH0x890482c in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...replacement and trade up offers from StillSecure and other NAC vendors for you to want to be a guinea pig in yet another experiment from the folks at Vernier. How many times do you have to get burned before you learn? You deserve better
 
Tags: milton, milton security, milton-bradley, milton security serves, vernier, vernier customer, customer, vernier boxes, vernier line
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Big Brother Fi; Eugene (Ore.); Milpitas (Calif.); XP Net Monitor

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2008-04-24 13:54:32 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...replacement cost funds, and shut down public access, as previously expected. Their yearly costs for operation,