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 ...

If you sometimes find yourself needing an open wireless network in order to check your email from a car, a street corner, or a park, you may have noticed that they're getting harder to find.[eff.org]

The Northern Fleet of Russia successfully test launched a ‘Sineva’ intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from the Yekaterinburg nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea on Tuesday. The missile’s warheads reached the Kura firing range in Kamchatka, an official spokesman for the Defense Ministry said.[ruvr.ru]

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This fellow wasn't quite the angel he was made out to be in the earlier reports ...

Mexican investigators have now uncovered 183 bodies, many believed to be bus passengers kidnapped by the Zetas drug cartel, in a series of pits about 80 miles south of Brownsville.[themonitor.com]

The dim witted criminals posted the message "I'm rich" and "Wipe my teeth with hundreds" soon after an armed raid on a bank in Houston, Texas.[telegraph.co.uk]

Richard's Second Natural Law of Security: It's cheaper to be invisible that it is to be invincible.

Also,

In a voicemail Kingman left for a friend following the assault,Kingman bragged about the incident, saying he "beat this guy todeath," that his clothes were covered in blood and that "it felt,oh god, it felt so good; so good."[bosemandailychronicle.com]

Ahhh, whether you get probation or 20 years is often determined by how vain you are ...

Essentially a wrapper for your regular credit card or debit card account, a virtual card number is good for one use only. When you use the virtual number, the bank that supplied it charges your purchase to your regular credit or debit card, but hackers never gain access to the underlying credit card information.[pcworld.com]

Hibbs says the United States and a number of European countries have already cautioned Rosatom about the dangers of supplying quick-fix nuclear plants to developing countries.[rferl.org]

Interesting concept ... I'd prefer a pebble bed configuration ...

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The LAPD say that the victim was walking on the sidewalk in the area of Melrose Avenue and Irving Boulevard when a man pushed her to the ground and stabbed her multiple times.[laist.com]

It isn't your evil that disturbs me, it's that it's so pathetic ...

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"I just ran without thinking about anything," said the feisty 81-year-old who asked not to be identified. "I was just hoping we can catch up to this robber or whatever the hell he was.[nbcnewyork.com]

Pretty spry for an old codger ... probably would have issued a serious beating if he'd caught him in the first few steps ...

The thing about data encryption is that it’s basically a flashing neon sign indicating “SENSITIVE DATA HERE!” A new technique lets you secure your data by customising the way that data is fragmented across your drive.[gizmodo.com]

  Sounds kinda like steganography to me ...

In depth follow-up on the Dropbox story ...

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Gotta love the lede ...

The updated terms specify that Dropbox will turn over data: to comply with the law; protect someone's safety; prevent fraud or abuse on Dropbox; or protect Dropbox's property rights. If Dropbox agrees to hand over data, the company will decrypt it before doing so. If you have encrypted it before storing it on Dropbox, though, it will remain encrypted.[pcmag.com]

Would you object if a police officer stopped you for speeding, then took your phone and cloned all its data--including photos, videos, e-mails, and recent GPS locations?[pcworld.com]

You probably should ...

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At least it turned fatal for the right people ... nice work, dude ...

District Judge Robert C. Brack denied bail for Blas Gutierrez at a hearing in Las Cruces, calling the former trustee of Columbus a dangerous flight risk who had abused his public trust "to fuel the war that's going on south of the border" in Mexico.[reuters.com]

Tijuana – The federal police commander killed Friday in Tijuana was shot at least 22 times, according to information revealed Monday.[sandiegored.com]

Better yet, if someone tries to access the data on this memory stick, they’d better be a good guesser–not only is it password-protected (and includes support for specific characters–imagine how hard it might be to guess a password that could have a tilde and an umlaut in it), but after ten failed attempts to access the drive’s contents, the encryption key is automatically erased, rendering the entire drive, and its contents, permanently inaccessible.[nexus404.com]

Suspiciously like an Ironkey ...

The US military research agency has awarded almost $5 million to speed the performance of an algorithm that could make cloud computing secure.[i-programmer.info]

The amount of data lost to cyber attacks dropped dramatically in 2010, even as the number of breaches rose sharply, according to a new security report.[sfgate.com]

Through a new program dubbed Partners for Amtrak Safety and Security being launched Tuesday, Amtrak will recruit people who are already watching and riding trains to keep an eye out for suspicious activity on trains and around stations and tracks.[wsj.com]

Hmmm ... it's be interesting to see how this develops ...

Piatek has taught self-defense for nearly three decades but knows not all women have the time to devote to taking a class or seminar. For those who don’t, she offered some tips for protection and prevention.[hollandsentinal.com]

Generally good advice ...

Hero of the week

Metro Police are searching for a man who tried to rob a woman before shooting a security guard at the Tuscany Hotel and Casino early this morning.[lasvegassun.com]

Fine work. my brother ... peace be on you as you recover ...

Hong Kong Airlines said all staff had been invited to undergo training in wing chun -- a form of kung fu used in close-range combat -- but it was only compulsory for cabin crew, the Sunday Morning Post reported.[skynews.com]

Damn good idea ...

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Surveillance video of New Jersey gas station shows attendant being dragged by car and left in the street.[kplctv.com]

Couple of things not to do ... don't grab onto the car or the contents including the occupant when they're trying to get away ... and don't stand in front of the car when they're trying to get away (that doesn't happen here, but just sayin') ...