With all the problems and flaws in electronic voting machines being exposed over the past couple months, I'd like to know why there hasn't been any effort in designing a new voting system from scratch. What does an electronic voting machine need to be [...]
Posted by Marcin on Monday, October 30, 2006 in
Links,
Security and
Tech.
Remember the college student who had a website that allowed you to create fake boarding passes to get past TSA security checkpoints at the airport? Well, according to his blog, the FBI raided his home and left a warrant and a list of items for seizure [...]
Posted by Marcin on Sunday, October 29, 2006 in
News.
By now most of you have heard about how easy it is to hack a Diebold machine, and the blatent security flaws, such as not utilizing encryption or password protection. Well, HBO will be airing "Hacking Democracy" a documentary that exposes the [...]
Posted by Marcin on Monday, October 16, 2006 in
Security.
The Shmoo Group is soliciting papers and presentations for the third annual ShmooCon. ShmooCon 2007 has 4 options for speaker submission.: One Track Mind - Technical Tales in Twenty Minutes or Less Break It! - Technology Exploitation Build It! - [...]
Posted by Marcin on Friday, October 13, 2006 in
Links and
Security.
I've been getting some requests for what to look for when doing the on-site portion of an INFOSEC assessment, and put together a checklist derived from the 18 baseline classes and categories the NSA has specified. You can add/remove to this list as you [...]
Posted by Marcin on Thursday, October 12, 2006 in
Security.
According to news sources, the USGS in its seismic activity study, claims North Korea has conducted a nuclear test. At the moment, the Pentagon is working to confirm these claims, the South Korean stocks drop like rocks on their stock exchange, and Japan [...]
Posted by Marcin on Monday, October 9, 2006 in
Intelligence and
News.
Pat unleashed Slackware 11.0 tonight, with an official announcement. Xfce 4.2.3.2, a lightweight and fast desktop environment is now available along with KDE. Still included is the tried and true 2.4.33.3 kernel, with an available 2.6.17.13 or 2.6.18 [...]
Posted by Marcin on Tuesday, October 3, 2006 in
Tech.
