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Oracle CPU Pre-Release Announcement - January 2009

2009-01-09 22:10:00 by Slavik in Musings on Database Security
 
Oracle has released an announcement about the upcoming January CPU. This time it contains very serious WebLogic and secure backup vulnerabilities, along with 10 vulnerabilities on the database side. The total number of vulnerabilities is in line with the previous CPUs while the database related vulnerabilities are a bit less than usual compared...
 
Tags: secure backup vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities, january cpu, oracle, database, previous cpus, announcement, bit, time
 
 
 
 
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Online Threat to Kill Obama Leads to Arrest

2009-01-09 21:20:00 by Kevin Poulsen in Wired Security
 
Secret Service agents raid the home of a man suspected of promising Barack Obama a "50 cal in the head" on a Yahoo message board. They take away his .50 caliber rifle
 
Tags: yahoo message board, barack obama, caliber rifle, head, cal, home
 
 
 
 
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Army Assembles 'Mad Scientist' Conference. Really

2009-01-09 20:45:00 by Noah Schachtman in Wired Security
 
The "Mad Scientist Future Technology Seminar," a three-day conference hosted by the U.S. Army, posits a near future where access to advanced military technology is available to all. So we'd better get our problems sorted out pretty damned quick
 
Tags: army, military technology, three-day conference, posits, pretty, access, future, quick
 
 
 
 
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Darpa Chief Staying On, for Now

2009-01-09 18:25:00 by Noah Schachtman in Wired Security
 
Tony Tether, Darpa's controversial chief, will continue holding the reins after Barack Obama takes office. It's a bit strange, considering Darpa's history as an agency that prides itself on rapid turnover
 
Tags: darpa, rapid turnover, tony tether, controversial chief, bit strange, history, prides, reins, continue
 
 
 
 
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Questions about virtualization and security?

2009-01-09 17:46:50 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...security. Some of the viewers had questions, and I offered to Donnie that they could come to my blog to post them. Ill extend that offer to all of my readersif youve got a question about this topic, ask away, and Ill answer here. Thanks
 
Tags: donnie, donnie hamlett, virtualization, questions, security, readersif, offer, post, viewers
 
 
 
 
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Thats what we need - 2 terabyte memory cards!

2009-01-09 17:12:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...security standards also into the new SDXC standards
 
Tags: cards, memory cards, credit cards, entire ssn list, predictable moore, giant leap, sdxc standards, breaches ahead, personnel records
 
 
 
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Hats

2009-01-09 16:50:07 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Awesome
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: Bizarre Squid Reproductive Habits

2009-01-09 16:06:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Lots of them : Hoving investigated the reproductive techniques of no fewer than ten different squids and related cuttlefish -- from the twelve-metre long giant squid to a mini-squid of no more than twenty-five millimetres in length. Along the way he made a number of remarkable discoveries. Hoving: "Reproduction is no fun if you're a squid. With...
 
Tags: squid, giant squid, cuts, females cuts, mini-squid, reproductive techniques, remarkable discoveries, twenty-five millimetres, suction pads
 
 
 
 
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Of myths and security

2009-01-09 15:40:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...information-centric security cheerleader, I think this is one of the changes we as an industry have to move forward with. Thinking that the old, device-centric approach will work every time, since that feels like comfort food, might turn out to be not true
 
Tags: security, fun, device-centric approach, security cheerleader, fun stuff, erik larkin, erik, approach, move forward
 
 
 
 
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Impersonation

2009-01-09 14:04:17 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...information? On e-mail, how can you distinguish someone from your company's tech support from a hacker trying to break into your network -- or the mayor of Paris from an impersonator ? Once in a while someone frees himself from jail by faxing a forged release order to his warden. This is social engineering: impersonating someone convincingly...