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Just EnCase It's Not a Search
2008-11-21 The U.S. government attempts to exclude a scan of a computer's file system from the definition of a search. They failed, but the issue will rise again, argues attorney and SecurityFocus contributor Mark Rasch. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/485 Microsoft's Stance on Piracy Affects Us All 2008-11-14 Operating-system piracy hurts Microsoft's bottom line, but in its fight against software pirates, the company maybe hurting the rest of the Internet to help itself. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/484 Clicking to the Past 2008-10-21 “Clickjacking” may be new, but attacks on the user interface are not. Security professional Chris Wysopal argues that browsers will have to be more restrictive to defend against this type of attack. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/483 The Vice of Vice Presidential E-Mail 2008-10-06 The recent investigation of the "hack" into U.S. vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account demonstrates that the law is not a clearly defined thing. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/482 Blaming the Good Samaritan 2008-09-26 A student at Carleton University faces charges for finding flaws in the school's e-mail system. In a guest column this week, Auburn University Professor Houston Carr argues that intentions should count when dealing with a network intruder. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/481 The Boston Trio and the MBTA 2008-09-23 Three MIT students found themselves under legal attack last month for exposing flaws in the Boston subway system. Despite the attempt to silence the trio, the law continue to support vulnerability disclosure, says SecurityFocus contributor and attorney Mark Rasch. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/480 From Physics to Security 2008-09-16 Contributor Federico Biancuzzi chatted up Wietse Venema, the co-creator of the Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks, to talk about the current state of security, anti-spam technology and how to reduce the number of vulnerabilities in software. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/479 Get Off My Cloud 2008-08-19 A recent decision by a federal appeals court in Cincinnati leaves U.S. citizens up in the air, if they hoped that nebulous privacy rules would apply to cloud-computing services. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/478 An Astonishing Collaboration 2008-07-09 On Tuesday, software developers and network-hardware providers released a patch for a significant flaw in the domain-name service (DNS) system. The researcher who found the bug, Dan Kaminsky, talks about the issue and the history of DNS problems in the column, reprinted with permission from his site. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/477 Bad-Code Blues 2008-07-08 Despite advances in secure-coding practice, most developers continue to let serious security bugs slip into their programs. SecurityFocus contributor Don Parker argues that until customers hold their software providers responsible, bad code will keep coming. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/476 |
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