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Privacy: when using a Web Browser

By Vijay Pasupathinathan On January 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Browser Privacy has gained a lot of attention and all major developers are jumping on the bandwagon (refer here here). gHacks has a nice blog entry and refers to a paper by Katherine McKinley.

The author says ”Unfortunately, the privacy modes [...]

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Attack on SSL

By Vijay Pasupathinathan On December 31, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Over the past couple of days there has been a lot of news about a group of researchers breaking SSL (to point a few visit here here here ). I mostly agree with Bruce and Ben, MD5 has been broken for many [...]

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Bruteforce attack on RFID in E-Passport

By Vijay Pasupathinathan On July 3, 2007 · Leave a Comment

CSO has an interesting piece on a attack on RFID chips in UK e-passport. More details at here.(technical)

A security expert has cracked one of the U.K.’s new biometric passports, which the British government hopes will cut down on cross-border crime and illegal immigration.

The attack, which uses a common RFID (radio frequency identification) reader and [...]

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Computerworld – How to become an exceptional security manager

By Vijay Pasupathinathan On April 30, 2007 · Leave a Comment

A good article for all security managers. Link

How many of us work in computer security environments where basic security recommendations are not applied consistently? I think it is nearly impossible to find a company that consistently and universally applies basic security tenets. So, we have inconsistencies, cracks in the system, and bad things are [...]

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What do you do as CISO ?

By Vijay Pasupathinathan On February 2, 2007 · Leave a Comment

A good article looking at CISO/CSO’s

Becoming the chief information security officer (CISO) of a corporation makes you a strategic IT advisor to business management, the chief information officer, and the rest of the information technology staff. Just as no company is the same as another, the job of CISO — or alternately, “chief security officer,” which [...]

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