Archive for October, 2006

Designing a New E-Voting Machine

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 secure and reliable? The effort almost seems to simple:

A […]

FBI Raid

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 (anything that could have been used in making his […]

HBO - Hacking Democracy

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 vulnerability of computers used in approximately 80% of our nation’s elections. It premieres […]

ShmooCon CFP

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! - Inventive Software & Hardware Solutions
Bring It On! - Open Discussion of Technology & Security Topics

For more, check it http://www.shmoocon.org/cfp.html
So, […]

IAM Checklist

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 like, it’s by no means “the” checklist as you’ll find out […]