Teknoids - security

Encryption Software

Mon, 5 May 2008 13:52:10 -0500

I'm in search of encryption software for Laptops and USB storage devices that can easily be implemented,supported, and at same time is should meet the most of the industry encryption standards Please advise.

Thank you

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 -0600

n/a

Zero-day Word exploit

Wed, 6 Dec 2006 13:12:11 -0600

Zero-day Word exploit

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6141221.html?tag=nl.e589

Cyndi Dean

Assistant Dean for Information Technology

UNM School of Law

(505) 277-0695

I've been hacked!

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:00:49 -0500

Any anti-hackers on the list?

This is one of my web pages: http://intelligent-internet.info/law/current.html

It loads news items from Moreover.com. When I went to it today I saw
the "calling cards" from a Turkish hacker. I looked at the web page
source and did not see anything I could identify as malicious code.
Anyone want to check it out and see if we can clean the page?

Thanks,

Steven C. Perkins
--
Steven C. Perkins SCPerkins@gmail.com
http://stevencperkins.com/
http://intelligent-internet.info/
http://jgg-online.blogspot.com/
http://stevencperkins.com/genealogy.html
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scperkins/genealogy.html

Remote Proctor?

Mon, 5 Jun 2006 10:55:32 -0500

Troy University is looking to technology to solve a problem created by
technology. Working with a company called Software Secure Inc., officials
at Troy are directing the development of an electronic proctor to oversee
distance students when they take exams. The device, called Securexam Remote
Proctor, sits next to a student's computer and connects through the
Internet to the host campus. Students verify themselves by using a
fingerprint reader in the device, which also includes a camera and a
microphone that let instructors watch and hear students remotely as they
take tests. " The device is expected to cost about $200, and multiple
students would be able to use the same device for different exams. Some
said the device is unnecessary. Brian Douglas, chief technology officer for
UMass Online, called it "an intrusion into a student's life." He said the
incidence of cheating among distance students is often overstated, noting
that his institution relies on the honor code and tests that make cheating

More on plagiarism detection (but nothing useful)

Sat, 20 May 2006 06:59:23 -0500

A followup, mostly because I got curious about this and did some asking
around.

Turns out that the NLP community refers to this problem as "authorship
identification". It all actually began with some work on using
statistical models to settle problems like the authorship of the
Federalist Papers back in the 1960s, now being carried out with newer
technologies like support vector machines (take a look at
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cache/papers/cs/27480/http:zSzzSzwww.cs.wisc.eduzSz~gfungzSzfederalist.pdf/fung03disputed.pdf
for some real geekery in a good cause). SVMs, by the way, are very cool
stuff. I wish I understood them -- I need to learn some analytic
geometry.

Unfortunately, like most machine-learning approaches, you need a
training set -- in this case, the sets of Federalist Papers known for
certain to have been written by Madison and Hamilton respectively.
Remembering that the goal is to do this on the four corners of a student
paper, a different method might be to split up the student document

Anti Virus for Exchange 2003

Thu, 18 May 2006 16:48:13 -0500

Hi,

plagiarism detection software for Law Schools

Wed, 17 May 2006 17:16:22 -0500

I am looking into
various software to detect plagiarism. The two that are being used at our
University (TurnItIn & Eve2) seem to work fine for other schools but I've
been told neither program searches law review databases.

I am looking into
CopyGuard from LexisNexis to see if they will provide the type of detection we
require.

Are any law
schools using a plagiarism detection software that you are happy

Spam Zombies from Outer Space

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:30:53 -0500

http://pharos.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/Dienst/UI/2.0/Describe/ncstrl.ucalgary_cs/2006-808-01

This has already been posted on slashdot.com, but I thought I would
send it out to the list anyway. Researchers at the University of
Calgary are looking at the next generation of spam and its use of data
mining.

>From the website:

How can better email worms be created? How can spyware claim more
victims? How can better spam be sent? It turns out that these three
questions are all related. We look at the future threat posed by email
worms, spyware, and spammers that use zombie machines in a new way:
sophisticated data mining of their victims' saved email. The end
result skirts many defenses, and could trick even experienced users.
We present new defenses that can be deployed now against this threat.

Stacey A. Lane
Public Services Law Librarian/Web Admin
University of Mississippi Law School Library
http://library.law.olemiss.edu/

Calioppix v3??

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:42:22 -0500

I am trying to figure out if there is an interest in Calioppix v3 for
this years conference. Just let me know if you find it valuable and
would like a v3.

Thanks
Harold

Harold Bieber
Senior Systems Administrator
Emory University School of Law
404-727-7193
harold.bieber@law.emory.edu

Spam Tools Updated on Zombies

Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:48:48 -0500

Computers infected with a well-known piece of malware began downloading a new spam tool Sunday night used by hackers to send unwanted e-mail.Malware writers working as part of the infamous Bagle spam gang began sending a new spamming tool Sunday night to thousands of hacked computers, said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for F-Secure Corp., a security company based in Helsinki.

Hacked computers receive updated spam tool - Computerworld

This probably explains the huge surge of spam I saw overnight. I picked up a couple of hundred messages from a few dozen random IP addresses in the span of about an hour early Monday morning. No fun.

technorati tags: bagle, malware

Patch Tuesday Comes Around Again...

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:53:58 -0500

As expected, the company released five patches, called "updates" in Microsoft parlance, addressing a number of critical vulnerabilities in IE and the Windows operating system. Microsoft also released an update for Outlook Express, rated "important," and a fix for Windows FrontPage Server Extensions and SharePoint Team Services 2002, rated "moderate."

Update: Microsoft releases critical Internet Explorer patch - Computerworld

dealing with stolen content

Wed, 5 Apr 2006 19:12:42 -0500

Paul Butzi runs a great site on photography. He is also an old techie.
He found that someone stole and reposted one of this pages, but left the
links to the images on Paul's site. He made some interesting
substitutions and wins my award for imaginative ways to deal with deep
linking to images:

http://blog.naver.com/post/postView.jsp?blogId=i1839&logNo=40021586598&c
ategoryNo=0&viewdate=&cpage2=1&cpage=1

(Scroll down the page)

The original site is:

http://www.butzi.net/

MSFT ActiveX Devs Get 60 Days For Rewrite

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:41:12 -0600

Microsoft has acknowledged that a planned update to the way Internet Explorer renders multimedia on Web pages could cause some serious problems, and promised to give developers an extra two months to modify their pages to ensure a smooth transition.The Redmond company was forced to make the changes in response to a patent dispute with Eolas Technologies. The fix would affect the way ActiveX controls are displayed on Web pages, according to experts. If no changes were made, a user would have to "activate" an ActiveX or Java control before it would be usable.

BetaNews | Microsoft Offers 60-Day ActiveX Reprieve

Zero Day IE Attack Underway

Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:01:29 -0600

The first wave of zero-day attacks against an unpatched flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has begun and security experts warn that the threat will grow significantly over the weekend.

WMF-Like Zero-Day Attack Underway

More injections from malicious websites. Watch where you surf.