Apple’s New Head of Global Security is a "Naval Warfare Information Expert" [Apple]
With a title like “Director of Global Security” and a background in Naval information warfare and network vulnerability analysis, it seems like new Apple employee David Rice would be helping to guard secrets. But that might not be the case. More »
Posted: January 25th, 2011
at 7:20am by Adrian Covert
Topics: Apple, Apple global security, David Rice, Security, enterprise, iOS
The TSA’s Sense of Humor Makes Me Nervous [Image Cache]
This is a photo of the TSA booth by the security check-in point at Indianapolis International Airport. Take a close look at the wallpaper on the computer in that booth. Nervous yet? More »
Posted: November 12th, 2010
at 6:11am by Rosa Golijan
Topics: Airports, Aviation, Cavity search, Cavity searches, Humor, Image cache, Security, Travel, Tsa humor, airport, airport security, tsa
Droid Incredible saves browser screenshots to internal memory, turns into a privacy nightmare
June must be the month when privacy issues leave their hibernation and return to trouble our fragile minds. First we had Flash going loco, then AT&T’s airwaves exploded with iPad users’ email addresses, iPhone 4 pre-orders started sending people to the wrong account, and now this. Boy Genius Report has come across a rather worrying “feature” of the HTC Sense bookmarking widget on the Incredible, which takes sporadic screenshots of your browsing sessions. That wouldn’t be so bothersome in itself, but try to remove said pictures, and you find where the problem lies. Ending the browsing session, deleting your history, and even a full reset to factory settings failed to eviscerate the indiscreet imagery. You have to manually discover their location and delete them by hand. Considering the high likelihood of Incredibles being sold and resold for years to come, this could turn the phone into a little cache of treasure for the proactive identity thief. And since it’s a Sense issue, it might be affecting other HTC handsets as well. Wunderbar.
Droid Incredible saves browser screenshots to internal memory, turns into a privacy nightmare originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: June 17th, 2010
at 7:22am by Vladislav Savov
Topics: DataProtection, DataSecurity, DroidIncredible, HtcSense, Personal, Privacy, PrivacyIssue, Security, browser, data protection, data security, droid incredible, htc, htc sense, incredible, privacy issue, private, screenshots, sense
UK national ID program scrapped entirely
I’m not familiar with the vagaries of UK politics, specifically the new “coalition” government and the implications of the latest election, but this is a good move no matter what party you’re in. The national ID cards, a grievously flawed part of a crippled program, are to be completely abolished within 100 days. For a state that has invested so heavily in surveillance, this about-face comes as rather a surprise — though a pleasant one, to be sure. Rejoice, UK cousins!
The lady in the video has the most inscrutably satisfied tone towards the end, there. Cracks me up.
Victorinox Secure Pro USB drive is ‘un-hackable,’ can file your nails
This isn’t the first USB drive / Swiss army knife we’ve seen from Victorinox, but the company’s new Secure Pro drive is the first that is supposedly “un-hackable.” To put that claim to the test, Victorinox actually offered a £100,000 prize to a team of “professional hackers” if they could crack the drive during the company’s launch event — they were unable to do so. That un-hackableness apparently comes primarily from the drive’s combination of AES256 technology and fingerprint security, which is paired with (get this) a self-destruct mechanism that irrevocably burns the CPU and memory chip if there’s any attempt to force the drive open. All that and a pair of scissors — how can you go wrong? No word on a release over here just yet, but the drive is now available in the UK in capacities from 8GB to 32GB for between £50 and £180 (or about $75 to $270).
[Thanks, Nikolas R]
Victorinox Secure Pro USB drive is ‘un-hackable,’ can file your nails originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: March 28th, 2010
at 8:07am by Donald Melanson
Topics: Flash Drive, FlashDrive, Secure Pro USB, SecureProUsb, Security, Self-destructMechanism, SwissArmy, SwissArmyKnife, ThumbDrive, USB drive, UsbDrive, Victorinox, Victorinox Secure Pro USB, VictorinoxSecureProUsb, ae256, multi tool, multitool, secure, self-destruct, self-destruct mechanism, swiss army, swiss army knife, thumb drive
