Defcon aims to thwart counterfeit badges
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The thousands of people who waited an hour or more to get into Defcon drove home what a hot ticket this 14-year-old computer-hacking event has become.
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Fraud crackdown begins with with photo comparisons and invisible security numbers.
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By Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Sep. 11--Computer-hardware makers keep churning out new laptop locks, and Marc Tobias keeps trying to crack them -- often with what he said is absurd ease.   His new victim: Targus' Defcon CL Armor Combo Cable Lock.
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Microsoft has come up with a strategy it thinks will encourage users to help it in the fight against piracy: the Windows XP Counterfeit Project.
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MIT researchers develop an authentication system that's not so easily revealed to prying eyes.
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Also: Tactile passwords could stop ATM 'shoulder-surfing'
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And claims underhand play Security researcher David Maynor got some measure of vindication at the Black Hat DC Conference this year.â¦
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Coupling New England ingenuity with anti-counterfeiting technology, doctors and police in Rutland, Vt., have developed a plan to thwart drug users who forge prescriptions for powerful pain killers like OxyContin.
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Threat of legal action keeps security firm from detailing RFID security flaws at Black Hat event.
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Computer giant Microsoft has launched a pilot scheme to replace counterfeit versions of Windows XP with legal ones. The first-time initiative is restricted to the UK and to users with pre-installed copies
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Source Code Club&#39;s last attempt to cash in on other people&#39;s intellectual property targeted Enterasys Network&#39;s Dragon intrusion detection system, which SCC offered for $16,000, and Napster&#39;s
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As passports equipped with RFID chips are adopted more widely around the world, successful attempts to crack them are on the rise as well. Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K. have already reported compromised data, but countries such as New Zealand remain unconcerned about such threats. But what if the goal wasn't data theft but detonation?
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The always provocative Brad Templeton, who hung out with a large cadre of geeks at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW, or IIW2007) last week, has some cautions about new identity systems, even if they are all &quot;user-centric&quot;. These cautions lie in a paradox: &quot;The easier it is to give somebody ID information, the more often it will be done. And the easier it is to give ID information, the more palatable it is to ask for, or demand it.&quot; The italics are his.  Here he hits on the problem of market power asymmetries (vendors strong, customers weak) that have been with us for the whole Industrial Age, and are with us still. I think we have a way to overcome those, and that Brad's Paradox may provide exactly the conceptual hurdle we need to see before we can make progress. \
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Arizona and Colorado pass tough laws on misuse of uniforms. Congress may crack down on fake-badge sales.
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Cheap everyday items such as pens and disposable razors are increasingly being counterfeited and many retailers unwittingly stock their shelves with fake products, companies and officials say.
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Hackers could bypass security warnings and download malicious content.
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InfoWorld - To judge from the number of announcements made at this week's RSA Conference, IT managers may need a defense against security software and hardware salespeople.