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Camouflaging Test Cars
From Schneier on Security

Camouflaging Test Cars

Interesting: In an effort to shield their still-secret products from prying eyes, automakers testing prototype models, often in the desert and at other remote...

Bulletproof Service Providers
From Schneier on Security

Bulletproof Service Providers

From Brian Krebs: Hacked and malicious sites designed to steal data from unsuspecting users via malware and phishing are a dime a dozen, often located in the United...

Changing Passwords
From Schneier on Security

Changing Passwords

How often should you change your password? I get asked that question a lot, usually by people annoyed at their employer's or bank's password expiration policy:choose...

Removing Belts at Airport Security
From Schneier on Security

Removing Belts at Airport Security

The TSA is making us remove our belts even when we don't have to. European airports have made us remove our belts for years. My normal tactic is to pull my shirt...

Securing the Washington Monument
From Schneier on Security

Securing the Washington Monument

Good article on security options for the Washington Monument: Unfortunately, the bureaucratic gears are already grinding, and what will be presented to the public...

Crowdsourcing Surveillance
From Schneier on Security

Crowdsourcing Surveillance

Internet Eyes is a U.K. startup designed to crowdsource digital surveillance. People pay a small fee to become a "Viewer." Once they do, they can log onto the site...

Kahn, Diffie, Clark, and Me at Bletchley Park
From Schneier on Security

Kahn, Diffie, Clark, and Me at Bletchley Park

Saturday, I visited Bletchley Park to speak at the Annual ACCU Security Fundraising Conference. They had a stellar line of speakers this year, and I was pleased...

Young Man in "Old Man" Mask Boards Plane in Hong Kong
From Schneier on Security

Young Man in "Old Man" Mask Boards Plane in Hong Kong

It's kind of an amazing story. A young Asian man used a rubber mask to disguise himself as an old Caucasian man and, with a passport photo that matched his disguise...

The End of In-Flight Wi-Fi?
From Schneier on Security

The End of In-Flight Wi-Fi?

Okay, now the terrorists have really affected me personally: they're forcing us to turn off airplane Wi-Fi. No, it's not that the Yemeni package bombs had a Wi...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Costume
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Costume

Just in time for Halloween.

"A Social Network Approach to Understanding an Insurgency"
From Schneier on Security

"A Social Network Approach to Understanding an Insurgency"

Interesting.

The Business of Botnets
From Schneier on Security

The Business of Botnets

It can be lucrative: Avanesov allegedly rented and sold part of his botnet, a common business model for those who run the networks. Other cybercriminals can rent...

Did the FBI Invent the D.C. Bomb Plot?
From Schneier on Security

Did the FBI Invent the D.C. Bomb Plot?

Last week the police arrested Farooque Ahmed for plotting a terrorist attack on the D.C. Metro system. However, it's not clear how much of the plot was his idea...

Dan Geer on "Cybersecurity and National Policy"
From Schneier on Security

Dan Geer on "Cybersecurity and National Policy"

Worth reading: Those with either an engineering or management background are aware that one cannot optimize everything at once

Control Fraud
From Schneier on Security

Control Fraud

I had never heard the term "control fraud" before: Control fraud theory was developed in the savings and loan debacle. It explained that the person controlling...

Halloween and the Irational Fear of Stranger Danger
From Schneier on Security

Halloween and the Irational Fear of Stranger Danger

From the Wall Street Journal: Take "stranger danger," the classic Halloween horror. Even when I was a kid, back in the "Bewitched" and "Brady Bunch" costume era...

Cargo Security
From Schneier on Security

Cargo Security

The New York Times writes: "Despite the increased scrutiny of people and luggage on passenger planes since 9/11, there are far fewer safeguards for packages and...

Friday Squid Blogging: Dissecting a Giant Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Dissecting a Giant Squid

Interesting television program from UK Channel 4.

Me at TED
From Schneier on Security

Me at TED

Okay, it's not TED. It's one of the independent regional TED events: TEDxPSU. My talk was "Reconceptualizing Security," a condensation of the hour-long talk into...

The Militarization of the Internet
From Schneier on Security

The Militarization of the Internet

Good blog post.
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