Among the roadblocks in the path of broader adoption of disk encryption is the performance hit associated with the technology. Full-volume encryption involves encrypting and decrypting all data written to and read from an encrypted disk, with an I/O performance penalty.[eweek.com]

Single use credit cards, also called disposable or virtual credit cards, provide various alias credit card numbers for the same account. Each merchant that you spend money with is assigned a different account number.[sfgate.com]

These are a step in the right direction ...

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It looks like she was giving as good as she got ...

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However, framing the cloud security discussion as a "public cloud insecure, private cloud secure" formula indicates an overly simplistic characterization.[pcworld.com]

In addition, it's claimed that all Lockheed personnel with RSA SecurID tokens will be given new tokens.[nakedsecurity.sophos.com}

In Benton Township, Michigan, two armed robbers wearing masks burst into a near-deserted Walgreens at 4:30 a.m. To pharmacist Jeremy Hoven, it was a prescription for trouble. So he filled it with hot lead.[abcnews.go.com]

This is the coolest paragraph I've read in months! The story itself is kind of irritating but not really surprising ...

A jail guard in Murray county has been charged by federal authorities with stealing $20,000 from an inmate by using the prisoner's bank card to draw from his account.[therepublic.com]

A Russian submarine will take part in the world's biggest submarine rescue exercise with its former Cold War foe NATO next week, the Western military alliance said Friday.[empatica.com]

I hope we don't have to give up too many secrets in order for them to participate ...

A computer security researcher has found a flaw in Microsoft Corp's widely used Internet Explorer browser that he said could let hackers steal credentials to access FaceBook, Twitter and other websites. He calls the technique "cookiejacking."[reuters]

Scambled Egg is an Open Source cryptography program for Windows and Linux that offers an easy way to decrypt and encrypt messages.[ghacks.net]

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Don't bring a knife to a baseball bat fight ...

iPhones running iOS 4.0 or higher use very strong encryption to protect your data. But somebody just broke it.[msnbc.com]

The issue, which Sony alerted customers to on its PlayStation website, marks yet another setback for the company, which has been under fire since hackers broke into its systems about a month ago.[reuters.com]

This is sounding more and more like an 'inside' job ...

Also ... 

Siemens, too ...

Okeechobee County has a plan for handling the marauding undead. A 75-page plan.[palmbeachpost.com]

Just because it hasn't happened so far doesn't mean it won't ever happen, I guess ...

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Forced to crawl with a gun to the back of their heads, two Dollar General employees are still shaken up after a scary armed robbery.[live5news.com]

I'm curious what the rest of the layout looks like ... seems risky having employees crawling around outside the store ...

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Another guy that won't be on the street long ...

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This is pretty cool ... in a horrendous sort of way ...

Some 40pc of IT workers have admitted they could hold their employers hostage – even after they’ve left for other jobs – by withholding or hiding encryption keys.[siliconrepublic.com]

Two men were arrested in what authorities described Thursday as an elaborate scheme to help more than 200 illegal immigrants from Korea and China obtain California driver's licenses using doctored Canadian passports.[csmonitor.com]

LinkedIn's professionalnetworking website has security flaws that makes users'accounts vulnerable to attack by hackers who could break inwithout ever needing passwords, according to a securityresearcher who identified the problem.[reuters.com]

All together, now: It's cheaper to be invisible than it is to be invincible.

The murder rate in the violent Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez has fallen sharply over the past six months, from an average of 11 people a day in October 2010 to four per day in April of this year, federal security spokesman Alejandro Poire said.[laht.com]

Sweet ... I guess ...

What most people do not know is that a foreign national who may potentially carry information out of the United States -- even just in their brain -- may require a license as well.[einnews.com]

Concerns over China’s growing submarine fleet are leading Asian nations to invest in anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capability.[aviationweek.com]

Chinese President Hu Jintao on Friday vowed to enhance cooperation with Pakistan on fighting terrorism and cross-border crimes in a bid to create a sound security environment for the economic and social development of both countries.[xinhuanet.com]

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This guy doesn't have a mask and turns his back on the clerk after getting the cash ... probably not long for this world ...

BitDefender Total Security 2012 delivers a first look at what's going to be a very comprehensive security suite.[pcadvisor.com]

Akbar Muhammad, a U.S. Muslim cleric visiting this South American country, was detained Thursday on suspicion of ties to drugs and terrorism, Guyana police said ... Muhammad has been a spokesman for Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, with whom he has worked since the 1960s.[sfexaminer.com]

Interesting ...

Also being cut out of the Department of Homeland Security's Urban Area Security Initiative are Buffalo, which is losing $5.5 million; Rochester, $2.3 million; and Syracuse, $1.1 million.[timesunion.com]

More cities here, here, here and here.

The Mac malware has caught the Apple ecosystem off guard and threatens to shatter the reality distortion field that Apple thrives on.[pcworld.com]

Just when you think you've battened down the hatches and fully protected yourself or your business from electronic security risks, along comes a new exploit to keep you up at night.[computerworld.com]

Anyone who entrusted sensitive data to Dropbox without code review, or at least skepticism regarding impressive security claims, wasn't behaving well, either.[informationweek.com]

British Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox has yesterday announced that approval has been given for the early phase of design of the submarine that will deliver the UK’s nuclear deterrent well into the 2060s.[defpro.com]

Perhaps the president's glib remarks can be blamed on the fact that the El Paso trip marked the first border visit of his presidency. For those of us who live and work in border states, the situation is neither funny nor solved. In reality, border violence is escalating and vast sectors of the border remain unsecure.[chron.com]

Germany plans to reduce the size of its armed forces but willplay a bigger role in international missions, its defence ministersaid, presenting the biggest reform of the Bundeswehr since it wasformed in 1955.[tvnz.co.nz]

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Hmmmph ... no mask, but he's worrying about fingerprints part of the time ...

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The gun-handling is odd in this one. The perp seems to be treating it like a prop instead of a weapon ...

The gruesome headlines from Mexico's drug war may be the stuff of nightmares, but there is little sign the millions of foreign tourists who visit the country each year are losing much sleep over it.[AFP]

The Los Indios International Bridge is back open to traffic. It was shut down Wednesday afternoon after a reported shootout just across the border. Folks in this area are still shaken up.[krgv.com]

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Here's a fairly well executed E&E ...

Armoring adds about 1,000 pounds to most vehicles. "To stop an AK 47 or M 16 it would cost $65,000 plus the cost of the vehicle," he added.[kens5.com]

Dozens of Mattel Inc. employees were on their way to another day of work making Power Wheels in Mexico's industrial heartland when gunshots erupted around them and a grenade ripped into one of their buses, killing one worker and wounding five.[montereyherald.com]

In a letter sent to the FTC, University of Indiana PhD and security researcher Christopher Soghoian claimed that while Dropbox encrypted every file it stored, this could be reversed by employees, undermining the company's security credibility.[pcworld.com]

This will always be the case. If you want to be sure, encrypt everything first and then upload it to the clouds ...

It was a promise he could not keep Monday. St. Petersburg police say the 26-year-old security officer was shot and killed early that morning while patrolling a large apartment complex where police sirens aren't uncommon.[tampabay.com]

Today's the day, every day ...

As Facebook becomes the window to the Web for its more than 500 million users worldwide, the security of the social network has never been a hotter topic.

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This is kinda cool in a creepy sort of way ...

One of Guatemala's worst massacres since the end of the country's decades-long civil war was the work of the brutal Mexican drug cartel the Zetas, Guatemalan officials said Monday.[sacbee.com]

Sony Online Entertainment brought its PlayStation Network back online in parts of Europe and the U.S. Saturday following a three-week outage resulting from the hacking of the network by unknown individuals, the company said on the PlayStation blog.[pcmag.com]

Despite strict gun-control laws in Mexico, crime scenes in that country are riddled with bullet holes. Both drug cartels and common criminals have no trouble getting guns. The spike in violent crime has more private citizens in Mexico quietly arming themselves for protection.[kens5.com]

It's about time ...

Rambus, a technology licensing company, this week announced it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Cryptography Research Inc. (CRI), a semiconductor security R&D and licensing company.[xbitlabs.com]

Protocol for casino security mandates that a security guard can only leave his post once a replacement arrives. Casino security had already called police for assistance.[bclocalnews.com]

You may want to review that policy ... it's really dumb ...

The Pentagon has labored for months to lock down its data from WikiLeaks. Now Congress is stepping in to demand it finish the job — in about, oh, a year and a half.[wired.com]

Yeah, that's a tall order ...

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This guy will be in jail (or the morgue) soon ... no disguise ... and what, exactly, are you planning to do with the lottery tickets ...?

Today, Aleratec launched its new PortaStor Secure family of 256-bit AES encrypted USB flash drives. These highly secure flash drives feature hardware encryption for fast, dependable performance and superior ease-of-use.[prweb.com]

The report measures the rise of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption within corporate Internet traffic, as well as other applications that complicate filtering by hopping between ports and other programs that are purposefully designed to evade monitoring.[forbes.com]

A French security research firm boasted today that it has discovered a two-step process for defeating Google Chrome‘s sandbox, the security technology designed to protect the browser from being compromised by previously unknown security flaws.[krebsonsecurity.com]

On Sunday, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer announced a push for increased rail security and called for the creation of an Amtrak “No Ride List,’ in light of intelligence gathered from a raid on Osama Bin Laden’s Pakistani compound that indicated Al-Qaida was in the very early stages of planning an attack on U.S. train infrastructure[fox23news.com]

Apparently, Senator Schumer has failed to grasp that it's actually quite a bit harder to tango a train as a passenger that it is to do it from track-side ...

Thousands of people marched in silence through central Mexico City Sunday to protest drug violence that has left tens of thousands dead, and the military strategy that has failed to stop it.[AFP]

The ill-fated HMS Astute is infamous for being the scene of a fatal shooting a month ago when it was docked in Southampton, and for accidentally running aground off the Isle of Skye last October. The boat has been plagued by a series of other mishaps, including a fire, being hit by a falling ramp and problems with its toilets.[heraldscotland.com]

Is there a witch-doctor in the house ...

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Never bring a knife to a baseball bat fight ...

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Ya know, there are few things I enjoy more that seeing a saggy-pants perp making a getaway and having his drawers drop down around his ankles followed by a face-slide on the pavement ... 'LOL' just isn't strong enough to describe it ...

Already on high alert because of the killing of Osama bin Laden, rail services in the Chicago area took extra steps Friday to protect their passengers after learning of terrorists’ scheme to derail a train in the United States.[suntimes.com]

I would bet that every computer they use is full of crazy shit put there just to make sure we trade our liberty for an increased lack of security (How security actually works is explained in the video that is linked at the upper right which makes it clear why loss of liberty is proof of poor security rather than a means to good security..) The 'enhanced' security protocols, such as warrant-less surveillance and packet sniffing,  may have actually been helpful for the first six months or so after Nein Won Won, but now they just foster laziness and incompetence ...

The commander of the U.S. Southern Command said Friday that the threat to U.S. security in Latin America comes not from any conventional source but rather transnational criminal organizations.[miamiherald.com]

Ya think ...?

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I bet Las Vegas will be the place that comes up with the long-term solution to this ...

Very limited updates through Sunday due to deadlines at the paid gig

The National Security Agency (NSA) has published a document [PDF, 500kb] outlining ‘Best Practices for Keeping Your Home Network Secure’ - are you following the NSA’s best practice advice?[zdnet.com]

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Teens are gathering in groups in order to storm the doors of popular clothing stores, load up with as much gear as they can carry, and leave -- while employees stand helpless to do anything about it[cafemom.com]

The U.S. State Department is asking U.S. citizens traveling or residing abroad to avoid mass gatherings and demonstrations in light of Sunday’s military offensive that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden.[texastribune.org]

"When he walked out the door to pick up the television, I tried to burn him," Brooks said.[whiotv.com]

I suspect 20 years younger would mean attempted murder (and not necessarily appropriately) ...

A new state law gives civil and criminal immunity to business people and their employees who use deadly force in the face of life-threatening criminals.[tulsaworld.com]

Ya gotta love that ...

Under the plan, top state officials would have the power to brand people suspected of dabbling in terrorist-like activities as “terrorist entities” once the Office of Homeland Security and Department of Safety make that recommendation.[tnreport.com]

No need for any of that nasty, old due process ...

To make the data safe the new method of encryption doesn't store the keys in RAM but in CPU registers. The CPU is a much more difficult item of hardware to attack using a "Cold Boot" like technique.[i-programmer.info]

Interesting ...

Here's another concern for people with PSN accounts. Sony admitted that they did not encrypt some of the data that was leaked—these include names, addresses, email addresses, birth dates, and log-in information.[technorati.com]

Hmmm ... everything you need to steel an identity ...