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  • Web Of Trust: RIP

    It's official. I just received an e-mail from Thawte notifying me that, as of November 16, 2009, the most innovative and useful idea in PKI since its inception, the Web of Trust , will die. Thawte was founded 14 years ago by Mark Shuttleworth. The primary purpose was to get around the then-current...
    Posted to Jesper's Blog by jesper on Wed, Oct 14 2009
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  • Is MS08-067 Wormable?

    A couple of weeks ago Microsoft released an out-of-band security update in bulletin MS08-067 . Looking at the type of vulnerability and the fact that the issue was already being exploited in the wild at the time, this was a good decision. If you have not already installed this security update, you should...
    Posted to Jesper's Blog by jesper on Tue, Nov 4 2008
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  • Thoughts on Security by Obscurity

    This has not really been that normal a week for me, but at least another article made it into print. The June 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine is headlined by an article I wrote with my friend Roger Grimes, Security Adviser for Infoworld , on Security by Obscurity . It is another one of those point-counterpoint...
    Posted to Jesper's Blog by jesper on Tue, May 13 2008
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  • Quantum Security

    The May 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine is out. It has an article in it that I have been wanting to write for a long time, called Quantum Security . In it I posit the argument that there are some fundamental laws of security, similar to the laws of physics, which we must not ignore in our risk management...
    Posted to Jesper's Blog by jesper on Tue, Apr 22 2008
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  • Theft-proof biometrics

    At last, there is a biometric authentication technique that cannot be stolen. Or, well, it can, but at least it won't work any longer. Drs. Philip M. Rodwell and Steven M. Furnell recently published "A non-intrusive biometric authentication mechanism utilising physiological characteristics of...
    Posted to Jesper's Blog by jesper on Mon, Feb 4 2008
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