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Password Sharing Among American Teenagers - Interesting article from the New York Times on password sharing as a show of affection. "It's a sign of trust," Tiffany Carandang, a high school senior in San Francisco, said of the decision she and her boyfriend made several months ago to share passwords for e-mail and Facebook. "I have nothing to hide from him, and he has nothing to...
Evidence on the Effectiveness of Terrorism - Readers of this blog will know that I like the works of Max Abrams, and regularly blog them. He has a new paper (full paper behind paywall) in Defence and Peace Economics, 22:6 (2011), 583?94, "Does Terrorism Really Work? Evolution in the Conventional Wisdom since 9/11, Defence and Peace Economics": The basic narrative of bargaining theory predicts that, all else...
Federal Judge Orders Defendant to Decrypt Laptop - A U.S. federal judge has ordered a defendent to decrypt her laptop....
Supreme Court Rules that GPS Tracking Requires a Warrant - The U.S Supreme Court has ruled that the police cannot attach a GPS tracking device to a car without a warrant. EDITED TO ADD (1/26): It seems I was wrong when I said that the ruling forces the police to get a warrant before placing a GPS tracking device on a car. The ruling is much more complicated and nuanced....
Research into an Information Security Risk Rating - The NSF is funding research on giving organizations information-security risk ratings, similar to credit ratings for individuals: Existing risk management techniques are based on annual audits and only provide a snapshot of a partner's security posture. However, new vulnerabilities are discovered everyday and the industry needs a solution that enables a business to continuously monitor changing risk posture of all...
Using Plant DNA for Authentication - Turns out you can create unique signatures from plant DNA. The idea is to spray this stuff on military components in order to verify authentic items and detect counterfeits, similar to SmartWater. It's a good idea in theory, but my guess is that the security is not going to center around counterfeiting the plant DNA, but rather in subverting the...
Authentication by "Cognitive Footprint" - DARPA is funding research into new forms of biometrics that authenticate people as they use their computer: things like keystroke patterns, eye movements, mouse behavior, reading speed, and surfing and e-mail response behavior. The idea -- and I think this is a good one -- is that the computer can continuously authenticate people, and not just authenticate them once when...
The Continued Militarization of the U.S. Police - The state of Texas gets an armed patrol boat. I guess armed drones weren't enough for them....
The Onion on Facebook - Funny news video on Facebook and the CIA....
Using False Alarms to Disable Security - I wrote about this technique in Beyond Fear: Beginning Sunday evening, the robbers intentionally set off the gallery's alarm system several times without entering the building, according to police. The security staffers on duty, who investigated and found no disturbances, subsequently disabled at least one alarm. The burglars then entered through a balcony door....
Going Dark to Protest SOPA/PIPA - Tomorrow, from 8 am to 8 pm EST, this site, Schneier on Security, is going on strike to protest SOPA and PIPA. In doing so, I'll be joining Wikipedia (in English), BoingBoing, WordPress, and many others. A list of participants, and HTML and JavaScript code for anyone who wants to participate, can be found here....
Tor Opsec - Good operational security guide to Tor....
DreamHost resets customer FTP passwords following database breach - Los Angeles-based Web hosting firm DreamHost reset the FTP and shell access passwords for all of its customers on Friday after detecting unauthorized activity within one of its databases.
Romanian NASA hacker gets a three-year suspended prison sentence - Robert Butyka, a 26-year old Romanian man accused of hacking into multiple NASA servers, received a three-year suspended prison sentence on Tuesday after admitting his guilt.
Sykipot Trojan hijacks Department of Defense authentication smart cards - A variant of the Sykipot Trojan Horse hijacks U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) smart cards in order to access restricted resources.
Father's attempt at parental control resulted in hacked German police system - The course of events that led to the July 2011 compromise of a computer server used by German authorities for GPS surveillance might have started with a police official monitoring his daughter's online activities, according to reports in German media.
Oracle's latest Java moves frustrate users and vendors - The company is under fire for modularization, licensing, and security issues
Ten IT news stories we'll read in 2012 - Well, we erred in our 2011 predictions in not repeating a 2010 forecast that Carol Bartz would be ousted as Yahoo CEO -- it was bound to happen, we just called that one too early. Then again, we also predicted last year that Oracle would buy Salesforce.com and have decided not to repeat ourselves this year, so we'll see if we were just ahead on that one, too. Meanwhile, these are our predictions for the next 12 months.
Why Law Enforcement Can't Stop Hackers - On July 19, 2011, FBI agents in nine states rounded up 14 men and two women ranging in age from 21 to 36 for their alleged involvement with the international hacking group Anonymous. Fourteen of these individuals were arrested for allegedly plotting and executing a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in December 2010 that took down PayPal's Website.
Hacker selling access to compromised websites gets hacked - A hacking group called d33ds broke into the online shop of a rival hacker who sells unauthorized access to high-profile websites and data.
Biden, Cameron hit out at Internet censorship, hacking - U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden and British Prime Minister David Cameron Tuesday condemned efforts by some countries to censor their citizens' use of the Internet, making a case that free expression online has long-term benefits.
Researcher finds major flaw in Facebook - A security penetration tester discovered a major flaw in Facebook that could allow a person to send anyone on the social-networking site malicious applications.