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E-voting experts call for revised security guidelines
A federally funded group of voting technology experts call on the United States' Election Assistance Commission to revamp its process for evaluating the security of election systems. 2005-10-03 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11336 Digital plague hits online game World of Warcraft A game effect with limited self-propagation gets spread further by malicious gamers and underscores the danger of giving programs the ability to infect. 2005-09-27 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11330 Mozilla's popularity stressing its security image Recent vulnerability disclosures and a biannual report noting increased flaw reports raise questions about the open-source Firefox browser's security. 2005-09-21 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11327 Key clicks betray passwords, typed text University researchers find that a ten-minute recording of a person's typing is enough to recover more than 90 percent of the words entered on a computer keyboard. 2005-09-15 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11318 Microsoft's delay to patch fuels concerns The software giant decides to cancel a security fix after problems are found, causing a row in the security community over the value of regularly scheduled patches. 2005-09-13 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11313 Big debate over small packets After a summer of debate over whether flaws in ICMP are a serious threat, an Argentinian researcher continues to lobby the Internet's technical standards body to implement his proposal to fix the issues. 2005-09-07 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11306 Katrina's destruction attracts online fraudsters From questionable charity sites to malicious code with a hurricane hook, people ready to take advantage of the natural disaster in New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico have pursued their schemes on the Internet. 2005-09-02 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11302 Hidden-code flaw in Windows renews worries over stealthly malware A flaw in the way that several security programs and systems utilities detect system changes can allow spyware to run surreptitiously, renewing worries about stealthier attack code. 2005-08-31 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11300 Zotob suspects arrested in Turkey and Morocco UPDATE: Law enforcement arrested two men--one living in Turkey and the other in Morocco--in connection with the release of the recent Zotob worm. 2005-08-26 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11297 Storm brewing over SHA-1 as further breaks are found Three Chinese researchers refine an attack on the encryption standard used to digitally sign documents, leaving cryptographers to debate whether the Secure Hash Algorithm needs to be mothballed more quickly. 2005-08-23 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11292 |
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