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  Space exploration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_exploration

  While only the space programs of the United States, Soviet Union/Russia, and China have launched humans into orbit, a number of other countries have space agencies which design and launch satellites, conduct ... space research, and coordinate national astronaut programs.   [More...] [Less...]

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  InfoWorld: Trust key to Internet security 

  http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/09/14/37OPsecadvise-five-rings-security-authentication_1.html

  A few of my previous columns discussed my vision of creating a more secure Internet. It involved replacing the Internet's default anonymity with pervasive authentication , from the hardware initialization, ... through the OS and all applications, the user, and ending with a verifiable network stream. It is my strong belief that without a complete overhaul of default authentication, malicious hacking is going to continue indefinitely. And as expected, several readers complained about the obvious invasion of privacy my plan would entail; it's a duality I wrestle with as well. But an even bigger obstacle is the need to upgrade and replace nearly every involved software and hardware component. The computer world's normal evolutionary growth patterns don't fit nicely into my revolutionary changes. Few can afford to throw away the old and buy all new, much less have that occur across the globe all at once. It pretty much guarantees that my idea will never see the light of day … at least not for   [More...] [Less...]

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  Chinese internet security response team under attack | The Register 

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/02/chinese_internet_security_response_team_attacked/

  A recent post by the team at the Chinese Internet Security Response Team to their English-language site indicates that some of the site visitors are experiencing an attack from the CISRT.org site as a ... result of an injected IFRAME tag. Injected IFRAME tags are not a new means of using legitimate sites to launch attacks on unsuspecting users, with a recent notable case being the Bank of India hack . What is different in this case is that the hack is only being served to seemingly random site visitors. This is an interesting method that can extend the useful life of a hack by making it harder to isolate and investigate. With intermittent attacks on visitors it also means that investigators need to look at all of the intermediate connections between site visitors and the website. With multiple reports from different users, it suggests that whatever is happening is not due to an infection on the systems belonging to site visitors. Attention is currently focused on the possibility of an ARP   [More...] [Less...]

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  Space Exploration Technologies Corporation - SpaceX 

  http://www.spacex.com/

  As winner of NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services competition, SpaceX is designing and building the Falcon 9 human-rated launch vehicle and Dragon spaceship to transport cargo and then astronauts ... to the International Space Station. Improving The Cost & Reliability of Satellite Transportation The Falcon launch vehicle family is designed to carry both small and large satellites to missions ranging from Earth orbit to inter-planetary missions at significantly lower cost and higher reliability than prior launch vehicle designs.   [More...] [Less...]

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  Facebook - Sophos investigates the privacy and productivity challenge 

  http://www.sophos.com/security/topic/facebook.html

  Facebook The privacy and productivity challenge Avoid identity theft when social networking on websites like Facebook, and learn how companies can block employees from visiting inappropriate websites. ... Facebook is an internet phenomenon, with a reported 100,000 new people joining the social networking website every day. But do you think carefully about your privacy settings, or do you reveal too much information about yourself to potential identity thieves? ID fraudsters can use confidential information to commit crimes against individuals and their companies. Read our to find out how to secure your personal data with Facebook's privacy settings and avoid identity theft. The danger of Facebook identity theft Our research shows that 41% of Facebook users will divulge personal information - such as email address, date of birth and phone number - to a complete stranger, greatly increasing their susceptibility to identity theft. In most cases, it was possible to access users' family photos,   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 9 October 2007, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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  Secure Infrastructure Design [pdf]

  http://www.cert.org/archive/pdf/Secure_Infrastructure_Design.pdf

  Scott C. Zimmerman, CERT ® Coordination Center Information technology (IT) and enterprise networks have become the core of many organizations. Critical business functions often depend on a fully functioning ... IT infrastructure: no network means no ability to generate revenue. To this end, an organization’s growth and evolution should be reflected in the growth and evolution of its network. Organizational changes can include new or expanded missions, new factors such as mobile workers, and growth or downsizing in response to purely external factors. Infrastructure changes that stem from these factors can include additional network components (of a type already present), new types of components, and additional subnets or Internet connections. This paper describes the fundamental components of infrastructure design, provides an overview of risk management concepts, and illustrates samples of network topologies. Background A brief discussion of some common network entities will lay the groun   [More...] [Less...]

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  Information Professional Sector News - The IET 

  http://www2.theiet.org/oncomms/sector/informationpro/SectionNews/Object/6FF0D5F3-E790-C753-80A79F3FA5369FC2

  Facebook is being urged to improve its default privacy settings following research that revealed members are unwittingly exposing their personal details on a mass scale to millions of strangers, putting ... themselves at risk of identity theft. IT security and control firm Sophos took a random snapshot of 200 users in the London Facebook network and found that a staggering 75 per cent allow their profiles to be viewed by any other member, regardless of whether they or not they have agreed to be friends. Even if you have previously set up your privacy settings to ensure that only friends can view your information, joining a network automatically opens your profile to every other member of the network. Worryingly for businesses, 25 per cent; which could equate to as many as 300,000 users in the London network, revealed information relating to their work - details that could potentially be used by cybercriminals in their attempts to commit corporate ID fraud or to infiltrate company networks.   [More...] [Less...]

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  Untitled Document [pdf]

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/SE-13.pdf

  261 CHAPTER 13 Biometrics And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said. Let me go over; that the men of Gilead ... said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of the Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand. —JUDGES 12:5–6 13.1 Introduction The above quotation may be the first recorded military use of a security protocol in which the authentication relies on a property of the human being—in this case his ac- cent. (There had been less formal uses before this, as when Isaac tried to identify Esau by his bodily hair, but got deceived by Jacob; or indeed when people recognized each other by their faces, which I’ll discuss later.) Biometrics identify people by measuring some aspect of individua   [More...] [Less...]

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  Tags:  biometrics, face recognition, fingerprints, general, information , iris code, iris recognition, personal identification, signature, study, voice recognition, what is   [More...] [Less...]