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Airplane Security Commentary

2010-01-13 14:55:44 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...security Third: A terrorist set fire to his own trousers, suffering eyewateringly painful burns to what Australian cricket commentators sometimes refer to as the "groinal area", and nobody seems to be laughing. What's wrong with us
 
Tags: terrorist set fire, australian cricket commentators, eyewateringly painful burns, excellent commentary, smoke clears, christmas day, completely impossible, underpants bomber, airlines flight
 
 
 
 
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Google Admitting Compromise Good News

2010-01-13 14:41:20 by Chris Wysopal in Zero in a bit
 
...security testing was performed It is time for organizations to take a hard look at the set of client software they allow on their employees workstations and determine how trustworthy that software is. In most organizations these client systems have unbounded risk and our receiving data from the untrusted internet. If this doesnt change,...
 
Tags: google, software, software acceptance, attacks, attacks similar, attackers, similar attackers, client software, intellectual property
 
 
 
 
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Clearing The Cloud 3: Some Security What-ifs

2010-01-13 14:41:18 by Ariel Silverstone in Computerworld Security News
 
Security expert Ariel Silverstone continues his series on the threats facing the cloud and how best to secure it
 
Tags: cloud, secure, threats, series
 
 
 
 
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Hacking risks persist even if firms leave China

2010-01-13 14:41:18 by Jeremy Kirk in Computerworld Security News
 
Google and other enterprises still face a bleak computer security landscape that makes their companies vulnerable to hackers, whether they do business in China or not, analysts say
 
Tags: china, companies vulnerable, google, analysts, business, enterprises, hackers
 
 
 
 
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Hackers used rigged PDFs to hit Google -- and Adobe, says researcher

2010-01-13 14:41:17 by Gregg Keizer in Computerworld Security News
 
Adobe today confirmed that the cyberattack that hit its corporate network earlier this month was connected to the large-scale attacks Google cited yesterday as one reason it might abandon China
 
Tags: adobe, abandon china, hit, network, month, reason, cyberattack
 
 
 
 
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Beyond the opening: a priori is a problem

2010-01-13 14:38:56 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
Two related points from areas nominally outside infosec 1. Bruce Schneier on Rachel Maddow show talking about Underwear bomber, in response to the question "will any of these new TSA measures will prevent the next attack Of course not, the attacks are designed to get through whatever we're doing. The liquid bombers used liquid so now we screen...
 
Tags: crisis, financial crisis, strategies, chess, stage strategies, chess match, hour, game, middle game
 
 
 
 
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Gemalto offers fix for German payment card date bug

2010-01-13 11:42:54 by Jeremy Kirk in Network World on Security
 
Smart card vendor Gemalto said Wednesday it is distributing a software fix to banks for a programming glitch that caused millions of German payment cards to stop working
 
Tags: german payment cards, software fix, millions, banks, stop, wednesday, glitch
 
 
 
 
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500,000 fines for companies that lose data

2010-01-13 11:42:54 by Carrie-ann Skinner in Network World on Security
 
Organisations that lose sensitive data could be fined up to 500,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office
 
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Hacking risks persist even if companies withdraw from China

2010-01-13 11:42:54 by Jeremy Kirk in Network World on Security
 
Google and other enterprises still face a bleak computer security landscape that makes their companies vulnerable to hackers, whether they do business in China or not, analysts say
 
Tags: china, companies vulnerable, google, analysts, business, enterprises, hackers
 
 
 
 
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Pushdo Serving Crimeware, Client-Side Exploits and Russian Bride Scams

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2010-01-13 11:11:18 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
In need of a good example why you shouldn't be interacting with spam/phishing emails in any other way but reporting/deleting them, unless of course you're in the business of analyzing them Last week's OWA-themed Zeus-serving spam campaign courtesy of the Pushdo botnet , has not just resumed, but is continuing to serve client-side exploits...
 
Tags: email, ns1, org, hadlerjkh, net, spam campaign, spam campaign courtesy, client-side exploits, pushdo
 
 
 
 
 
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