Securology

Here's another very interesting post on lock-picking, like making a padlock shim out of soda can : How to make your own lock-picking to...

This is a quick, cheap, and simple way to crack open a padlock with a homemade shim from a soda can . Not a new idea, but a well-described ...

The following is a threat model that assumes the RSA SecurID seed records have been stolen by a sophisticated adversary , which is probably ...

RSA Released a new Customer FAQ regarding the RSA SecurID breach. Let's break it down ... Customer FAQ Incident Overview 1. What h...

RSA, the security division of EMC, was breached by a sophisticated adversary who stole something of value pertaining to RSA SecurID two fac...

This could also be titled "Taxonomies are Difficult". ... Roger Grimes at InfoWorld has a Seven Types of Hackers article. Ta...

What's the point of the heavy-duty chain and lock if one of the chain's links is just a zip-tie?

Bruce Schneier just echoed what I wrote back in December 2008 that the encryption key management aspects of PCI 1.2 and earlier are flat-ou...

On the heels of turning PGP corp Yellow , now Verisign is turning Yellow, too . Symantec is acquiring Verisign, too. These overpriced ...

What an interesting year 2010 is already turning out to be in technology, politics, and life as we know it. More censorship battles are goi...

Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs) are were the last hope of truly secure distributed computing endpoints. The idea behind TPMs is that they...

There have been many attacks on whole disk encryption recently: Cold Boot attacks in which keys hang around in memory a lot longer than m...

NOTE: In the name of "all things security", because this blog is intended to be about physical security, too, not just information...