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It Changed My Life: My Review of "Geekonomics"

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2008-06-05 17:53:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
...reveal any secrets about how software works to an IT professional (it will reveal how law works though!), but it will explain why bad software is everywhere, why we are stuck with it, why it will not improve by itself and - sorry for a hysterical note here! - how we might all fucking di e because of it. It then unemotionally predicts why more...
 
Tags: software, software manufactures, typical software, software development, insecure, insecure software, bad software, bad, open-source software
 
 
 
 
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Passport Canada web site suffers serious breach

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2007-12-05 11:51:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...reveal some of the personal information of passport applicants, including names, addresses and numbers for references and emergency contacts Comfyllama] But no! The issue was not fixed after bringing the site back online Canadian law does not require organizations to disclose when they've suffered security breaches Comfyllama] Canadian law...
 
Tags: passport canada, information, personal information, passport application information, application, breach, passport application site, passport canada spokesman, significant security breaches
 
 
 
 
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AIB technical problem discloses details of bank transfers

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2007-11-28 17:08:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...reveal the names and bank account details of customers with other banks It is understood that as many as 7,500 of the notices contained the names, addresses and full bank account numbers of AIB customers.This means these details, contained in notices relating to "inward" payments, are now in the possession of other customers of the bank ...
 
Tags: bank, account, bank account details, aib bank, bank account, aib, details, wrong customers, customers
 
 
 
 
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Security World: iPhone will be a primary target for cybercriminals in 2008

2007-12-12 14:06:29 by Editor in Help Net Security - News
 
Security predictions released by Arbor Networks reveal that the iPhone will be a major target for cybercriminals in 2008. The forecast also highlights Chinese specific crime as a major issue for the N
 
Tags: arbor networks reveal, major issue, iphone, major target, security predictions, cybercriminals, forecast
 
 
 
 
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Covert channel vulnerabilities in anonymity systems

2007-12-10 10:39:42 by Steven J. Murdoch in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...reveal the behaviour of users. While drawing on previous research on traffic analysis and covert channels, I avoid the traditional assumption of an omnipotent adversary. Rather, these attacks are feasible for an attacker with limited access to the network. The effectiveness of these techniques is demonstrated by experiments on a deployed...
 
Tags: covert, covert channel vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities, network covert channels, covert channels, channels, covert channel, anonymity systems, systems
 
 
 
 
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Logging Poll #4 "Who Looks at Logs?" Analysis

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2008-01-08 19:48:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
...reveal answers unobtainable via any other mechanisms Am I reading too much into this? Hey, maybe I am! :-) Then again, I am a former theoretical physicist - thus, I can explain anything Next poll coming soon Technorati tags: logging , log management , poll About me: http://www.chuvakin.org
 
Tags: logs, poll, incident response, incident response team, reveal answers unobtainable, technorati tags, theoretical physicist, applications, application developers
 
 
 
 
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Stolen Penn State laptop had information on 677

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2008-01-28 12:43:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...reveal the location of the theft, because he doesn't "want the bad guys to know what they have Evan] IF the "bad guys" are motivated by identity theft, then they already know what they have. IF the "bad guys" are curious, they might find what they have. IF the "bad guys" are dumb, they wouldn't know the difference. It seems like most "bad...
 
Tags: information, store information, sensitive personal information, information custodian, information security practice, identifiable information, confidential information, laptop, penn
 
 
 
 
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Users continue to ignore security policies, while security organizations are overlooking non-technical controls

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2007-12-13 12:37:00 by Ryan Shopp in practical risk management
...reveal who/where the survey was taken but it does highlight some key security items that people usually cut corners on Fifty-six percent said they had accessed office e-mail via a public wireless hotspot 52 percent said they had accessed office e-mail via a public computer Eight percent admitted to having lost a mobile device containing...
 
Tags: non-technical controls, technical controls, security, controls, aka non-technical controls, non-technical, quality, quality security controls, technical
 
 
 
 
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The Nukes of October: Richard Nixon's Secret Plan to Bring Peace to Vietnam

2008-03-04 05:00:00 by Jeremi Suri in Wired Security
 
Newly released secret documents reveal Giant Lance, a Nixon-Kissinger plan to win the Vietnam War by bluffing the Soviet Union with nuclear bombers aimed for Moscow
 
Tags: nuclear bombers aimed, vietnam war, nixon-kissinger plan, soviet union, moscow, win, newly