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'Revolutionary' Crypto System Unveiled
News Cryptographic and steganographic experts Ross Anderson, Adi Shamir and Roger Needham developed the theory behind the SFS in 1998, and this year two students at Cambridge University developed its first-ever implementation for the Linux operating...
[October 1, 1999, 17:10]
A Year Ago: 'Revolutionary' Crypto System Unveiled
News Cryptographic and steganographic experts Ross Anderson, Adi Shamir and Roger Needham developed the theory behind the SFS in 1998, and this year two students at Cambridge University developed its first-ever implementation for the Linux operating...
[October 1, 2000, 7:02]
Banks Seeking To Gag Crypto Research
News To help their case, the Singhs asked three cryptography experts based in Cambridge to act as defence witnesses: Ross Anderson of the Cambridge Computer Laboratory, and his students, Richard Clayton and Michael Bond, the latter of whom is writing a...
[February 21, 2003, 16:34]
Security Guru Wants Access To Bug Databases
News Security expert Ross Anderson has called for empirical research to be conducted into whether open source or closed source software is more secure, and into the impact that development practices such as extreme programming (XP) have on code quality.
[April 21, 2005, 14:05]
Researchers Hack 'tamper-proof' PIN Terminals
News Saar Drimer and Steven Murdoch, overseen by Professor Ross Anderson, managed to hack two widely used PIN terminals: the Ingenico i3300 and the Dione Xtreme. What this shows is that PIN entry devices in the UK are very insecure," said Professor...
[February 26, 2008, 17:34]
Study: Open, Closed Source Equally Secure
News In his paper, computer scientist Ross Anderson used an analysis equating finding software bugs to testing programs for the mean time before failure, a measure of quality frequently used by manufacturers.
[June 21, 2002, 8:57]
NHS IT Project Will Face Inquiry
News Professor Ross Anderson of Cambridge University attended last week's meeting, where he expressed his concerns about the Programme. We plan to get back to him with a proposal shortly," Anderson told ZDNet UK.
[April 24, 2006, 17:40]
IT Think Tank Opens Doors To Supporters
News Launching the iniative at the Cambridge Computer Lab on Monday, FIPR chairman Ross Anderson, who is a reader in security at the lab, said FIPR is hoping to expand because "the pace of stupid legislation is heating up recently.
[March 27, 2002, 11:54]
ABN Amro Systems Compromised
News Speaking at the E-Crime Congress in London in March, Cambridge University professor Ross Anderson spoke of the limitations of two-factor authentication. There are a whole bunch of things that can go wrong with two-factor authentication," said...
[April 19, 2007, 18:14]
Academics Demand NHS IT Review
News We were given the political runaround first time," said Ross Anderson, a security expert at the University of Cambridge. Anderson said that the independent review the group is demanding should utilise sufficient expertise in IT projects, but he...
[October 10, 2006, 17:05]
BSA 'piracy' Report Dismissed As Scaremongering
News But Ross Anderson, the chair of the Foundation for Information Policy Research and a professor at Cambridge University, dismissed the study as 'scaremongering'. Anderson claimed that BSA is focusing on the issue of unlicensed software as a decoy...
[May 19, 2005, 12:45]
Experts: 'British FBI' Won't Stop E-crime
News Security expert Ross Anderson agreed with Clayton that there is a danger that e-crime could get "lost in the mix" following the creation of SOCA. said Anderson in a comment on Clayton's blog posting on the subject.
[April 3, 2006, 15:35]
Copyright Directive 'will Stifle EU Competition'
News An analysis published by the FIPR's Ross Anderson, of Cambridge University, said that most large companies -- like Microsoft, Sony and Disney -- would be the biggest beneficiaries of the directive, because of its stance on reverse engineering.
[August 5, 2003, 16:35]
Visa Chaos Prompts E-commerce Warning
News FIPR co-founder Ross Anderson observes: "At present, if I use a credit card to buy something on the net and get ripped off -- whether the goods are shoddy or extra transactions get billed, it doesn't matter -- then I have a claim against the card...
[April 15, 1999, 9:02]
Anger Over EC Medical Data-sharing Scheme
News But according to Ross Anderson, a Cambridge University security engineering professor and longstanding critic of the NHS's multi-billion pound centralising systems upgrade, the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), the scheme is unnecessary and could...
[January 26, 2007, 10:51]
EU Delays Vote On 'Euro-DMCA'
News The directive could backfire on some of its sponsors, such as Microsoft, according to Ross Anderson of the UK's Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR). EBay, the online auction giant, could also be among the unexpected victims, Anderson...
[September 11, 2003, 17:20]
Government Concedes Opt Out Of NHS Database
News But Ross Anderson, a privacy advocate and Cambridge University professor, told ZDNet that a centralised medical system could be detrimental in emergency situations. You treat what you see," said Anderson.
[June 17, 2005, 17:20]
Legislation Needed To 'prevent DRM And Patent Abuses'
News Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at Cambridge University, told the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG) that tougher legislation was needed to stop technology unfairly restricting what a user or customer can do with the...
[February 3, 2006, 16:35]
NHS Computer Network Faces Privacy Danger
News Encryption expert Ross Anderson has expressed fears that as the network becomes more widely used, secure and accessible, it is likely to become a crucial means for monitoring the public. Anderson also believes that the means for securing this...
[November 26, 1999, 17:02]
A Year Ago: NHS Computer Network Faces Privacy Danger
News Encryption expert Ross Anderson has expressed fears that as the network becomes more widely used, secure and accessible, it is likely to become a crucial means for monitoring the public. Anderson also believes that the means for securing this...
[November 27, 2000, 6:03]
