Securology

Reuters is running a story that should amuse any computer security professional: Experts hope to shield cars from computer viruses . An ...

Ken Thompson is on the left. That's not Adam Savage on the right. If you work in computer security or software development, and yo...

Breaking into a hotel room with less than $50 in hardware The technical security media has been all abuzz about a recent Black Hat prese...

It should come as no real surprise: MS-CHAPv2 is broken .  It's an ancient scheme.  If you were paying attention, you would have migrate...

Skype has had its moments in security history over the past several years, like the allegations that governments of certain countries have...

This is an interesting infographic that is floating around that depicts the statistical likelihood of dying from any given event. It...

This is an interesting article about recent studies in the psychology of honesty and lies .  Turns out that it's possible for a clever...

For your developer friends (or you), Troy Hunt made his book about the OWASP Top 10 web security flaws as implemented in .NET available as...

This is a bit of a stretch from the normal topics, but in a severe disaster scenario (think Hurricane Katrina or third world country), it ma...

Turns out it may be more than RFID protection you may need for your wallet . New Scientist reports how some academics at University of Wash...

We just covered the NSA's new data center, so it seems appropriate to mention Visa's new data center, complete with a moat! Notice...

Stanford University has a free online Cryptography Course . Looks very interesting for someone who wants to peel back the layers of the oni...

Some content providers, like Hulu , have restrictions on certain content to make it only available in specific countries. They implement t...

Having just caught up on the positive achievements of Alex Halderman, we have discovered that another promising young mind has been lost for...

Computer Science Professor J. Alex Halderman is an upcoming academic star that we at Securology have been watching for awhile now , since ...

This is a creative implementation that discovers several information flow theory violations. The end result is a website that is not part o...

PCI Regulations allow merchants to store the first 6 digits plus the last 4 digits of a customer's credit card number. Ever wonder jus...

This sounds exciting, like intrigue for spy fiction : When Kenneth G. Lieberthal, a China expert at the Brookings Institution, travel...

Do It Yourself Surveillance Drone Aircraft . Why? Because you still can. Adjust your one-liner: "if guns drones are outlawed, then...

John Nash (inspiration for A Beautiful Mind ) wrote letters to the US Government in the 1950s which have recently been de classified and r...