Posted in Security on Apr 26th, 2009
Sherri Davidoff PGP-signed text: 2009-04-26 (current) Last week, the evening before speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, we saw a large black suitcase sitting by the main entrance of the Courtyard Marriott. It appeared to have been left behind by an unfortunate traveler. We walked up to the front desk to let the [...]
Cephalopod autopsies? Nope, today’s article is about conducting forensics on a Squid web proxy/cache. Just as complicated, but less smelly. Chances are pretty good that you’re reading this page through a web proxy right now, especially if you’re in an enterprise environment. Web proxying and caching have become increasingly popular, for both filtering traffic and [...]
Posted in Privacy, Security, Technology, Transit on Apr 6th, 2009
I love the Minneapolis airport. For an information security geek, it never fails to provide some interesting gem. Wandering through the airport this week I ran across a Delta “Helpline” kiosk (formerly Northwest’s Rebook Service Center). Every time I walk through the airport I see these gray kiosks closed up and pushed aside in some [...]
Posted in Government, Privacy, Security, Technology on Apr 2nd, 2009
This week, IBM ran a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal, which advertised that: New York’s “Real Time Crime Center can quickly query millions of pieces of information to uncover previously unknown data relationships and points of connection.” In Poland “personal and vehicle IDs can be instantly checked in an EU-wide database.” In Chicago: [...]
