Latest Blog Entries

• Ken Kousky wins 'Coach of the Year' at ACE '10
  The great lakes area Annual Collaboration for Entrepreneurship elected Ken Kousky as 'Coach of the Year'. The 10th annual event featured over 900 guests and 175 companies.  Ken was recognized for his mentoring work with students and emerging businesses throughout Michigan.  The fruits of his efforts were demonstrated by Kenneth Lang, one of Ken's students, who won first place in the Collegiate competition and a $1,000 prize for his elevator pitch.  His presenta ...
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• Apple Keyboard Exploit a Concern?
  Apple keyboards are vulnerable to a hack that puts keyloggers and malware directly into the keyboard. This could be a serious problem, and now that the presentation and code is out there, the bad guys will surely be exploiting it. The vulnerability was discovered by K. Chen, and he gave a talk on it at Blackhat this year. The concept is simple, a modern Apple keyboard has about 8K of flash memory, and 256 bytes of working ram. For the intelligent, this is more than enough sp ...
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• IA
  To many, IA refers to information assurance. I really like this term much better than information security since it speaks to the broader concepts of informational integrity and places emphasis on a far-more committed and positive notion - assurance. However, to others there is an equally important I and A. This is integrity and availability, two of the three traditional goals of security represented by the famous triad c-i-a. For far too long, information security has foc ...
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