A private company assigns license plates to violations, and guess what happens when they can't match the violation - it gets assigned to NULL ( Read more... )

This is interesting, and I hadn't considered it. I would have thought that, while I am typing this email, that nothing gets sent across my WiFi connection until I hit Send. But obviously email programs, if they're web-based, save draft copies. In the case of email, I think it would be negated by using a PC-based email client, but I'm not certain ( Read more... )

Excellent article by Bruce Schneier. "Last year, two Swiss artists programmed a Random Botnot Shopper, which every week would spend $100 in bitcoin to buy a random item from an anonymous Internet black market...all for an art project on display in Switzerland. It was a clever concept, except there was a problem. Most of the stuff the bot purchased ( Read more... )

The FBI is saying that the Sony hack was definitely the work of North Korea, based on evidence of NK attacks on South Korea, such as samples of the code that was preserved, encryption techniques, etc. So I guess I have to revise my previous opinion ( Read more... )

It was revealed that Target's internal software for detecting malware et al did its job and detected the malware that resulted in the theft of all those cards and information. Alerts were raised in India and North America. And nothing was done about it. And the alerts popped up BEFORE the stolen data was exfiltrated. If they'd acted on the ( Read more... )

Both from Bruce Schneier ( Read more... )

The system is known as badBIOS, and it can spread from an infected computer to a clean computer with no network connection via the infected computer's speakers and microphone. Basically it's a reversion to modem technology where digital data was sent using audio coding, only in this case it's using frequencies above human hearing (I hesitate to ( Read more... )

The NSA, PRISM, and trying to keep your information private and secure ( Read more... )

Bruce Schneier, as I've written many times before, is quite a practical expert on computer security. He's run an experiment recently where he bought a new computer from a big box store and configured it for no external connections: no internet, no WiFi, very carefully controlled transfers on and off it. And this article offers his opinions on how ( Read more... )

From Bruce Schneier's blog:

Lavabit E-Mail Service Shut Down ( Read more... )