Global Security Challenge Finalists Announced
The Global Security Challenge will see companies from around the globe enter the finals for security innovation development funding.
Global Security Challenge 2010
Global Security Challenge announced Biogy Inc as the winner of the US West Coast Regional Finals. When head judge John Morgan announced Biogy as the winner he called the Biogy technology ”disruptive”. For more information on the Global Security Challenge,…
Password Security
There is an interesting investigation into an issue with a GoDaddy hosted website. The investigation touches on a number of different things but one of them is that GoDaddy stores passwords without hashing them. I did my undergraduate computer science…
NIST Certified USB Drives Cracked
Three NIST certified USB drives (those from Kingston, Sandisk and Verbatim) have been cracked. It turns out that the protocol for communicating between the password checking software on the host, and the encryption engine on the drive itself was very…