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Video: David Stewart describes the major challenges facing anti-money laundering software makers

GuyPardon — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:03:07 +0000

In this video, David Stewart, Director of Financial Crimes at SAS Software, describes the major challenges facing anti-money laundering software makers.

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In other chapters, Stewart (naturally) plugs his company’s products, along with looking ahead to the long term trends in AML compliance. These videos are from the SAS Financial Services section of SAS.com.

Video: Creating fake SSIDs with FakeAP

GuyPardon — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:46:18 +0000

In the video below, Tmuster demonstrates how to create thousands of false SSIDs by using FakeAP, an open source app releases by BlackAlchemy under the GPL.

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You can either improve security by hiding your real wifi network in a gazillion fake WAPs or simply amuse yourself by, as he says, “annoying the hell of your neighbors.”

Wifi freeloaders, beware. I’m reminded again of the largest (unofficial) ISP in the USA: linksys.

Video: RFID Pet Food Access System

GuyPardon — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:53:06 +0000

This canine version of access control combines radio transmitters with a high pitched warning signal to keep each dog away from the other’s bowl. The scenario is similar to many that role-based access control (RBAC) solves in an enterprise.

Unfortunately, programmers would still have to eat their own dogfood.

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I wonder if this would help keep my roommate out of my beer.

Video: How to log into websites using OpenID

GuyPardon — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:16:26 +0000

One of our newest definitions explains OpenID:

“OpenID is a decentralized single sign-on authentication system for the Internet. The goal of the OpenID initiative is to allow users to log in at websites around the Internet with one ID instead of having to create multiple unique accounts. OpenID was developed using the open source software model to be an interoperable protocol independent from any single organization. (Continued…)”

Activating and using an OpenID is quite easy — I was able to sign up for TravelWiki, for instance, using one from Yahoo!. Activation and setup took about a minute. I’ve embedded three videos below that explain more about how OpenID works and how to use it. Enjoy!

The video below explains more about how to use an OpenID to login, in this case to votay.com:

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Here’s another one that explains how to use OpenID with WordPress:

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Dave provides a short, clear explanation of OpenID using a whiteboard here:

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And finally, in a Google TechTalk, Simon Willison (co-creator of the Django Web framework) discusses the implications of OpenID and explores the best practices required to take advantage of the new technology while avoiding the potential security pitfalls. This one’s a bit long but excellent.

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