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Links List 10.10.08

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2008-10-10 21:15:00 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
You cannot turn around without bumping into another bad news story about the economy. From layoffs (10% of eBays workforce, 7.5% of HPs ) to the bailouts to the $7 billion loan the state of California needs to make payroll this month. Really, 7 beeeellllyon dollars? How many people shook their heads and felt sorry for the people working at...
 
Tags: services, financial services company, source, source weather, time, extra time, successful brand, joe tucci, dell
 
 
 
 
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Lost Bank of Ireland laptops affect roughly 10,000 customers

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2008-04-22 09:35:39 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 4/22/08 Organization Bank of Ireland Contractor/Consultant/Branch Drogheda, Dunleer, Bagnelstown, Court Place Carlow, Stephens Green, Tallaght, and Montrose Victims customers who either obtained a quote or took out a Life Assurance policy with Bank of Ireland Life from the following branches ...
 
Tags: bank, customers, information security, information, ireland, confidential information, ireland life option, ireland life, bank account details
 
 
 
 
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The top 10 spam characteristics (#6-10)

2006-09-27 06:01:03 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
Even though some spam messages are hard to distinguish from legitimate emails, most spam mails include tell-tale signs that can be used to filter them out. In the next few days I will be discussing the Red Earth Software list of current top 10 spam characteristics and how they can be used to detect spam. Remember that these spam characteristics...
 
Tags: spam, spam characteristics, spam characteristic, todays spam mails, mails, email address, complete email address, detect spam, spam messages include
 
 
 
 
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Top 10 Security Stories of 2007

2007-12-27 04:53:17 by Bill in Grumpy Security Guy
 
This is my list of the Top 10 security stories of 2007. Since I am a Web Application Security guy this list is slanted in that direction for sure. If you think something should be in my list that I missed post a comment 10. Penetration Testing Goes Prime Time - No this is not a Tiger Team fan site! I liked the show and looking forward to more...
 
Tags: top, security stories, top security stories, business, russian business network, web application security, bad guys, pci, ibm acquires watchfire
 
 
 
 
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Top 10 Signs Your Network Admin has Gone Rogue

2008-07-25 18:00:30 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
 
Terry Childs captivated much of the IT world over the past week and a half with his lock-down of San Franciscos IT system. Instead of watching a bunch of police chasing a white Bronco, this time the coverage amounted to many many articles, blog posts, comments, and long email chains. It seemed I would read one thing and the very next one would...
 
Tags: network admin, admin, top, lock-down, signs, lock-down free weekend, rogue, network configuration include, email
 
 
 
 
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10 things you should be doing to protect your company against email risks

2007-11-02 23:30:15 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
Last week we discussed the top 6 email risks that companies face. So what can we do to protect ourselves against these risks? Here are 10 things that you should be doing to protect your company 1: Write an email policy . If you do not already have one in place, the first thing you must do is to create an email policy. This is necessary to...
 
Tags: policy, email policy violations, email-policy, email policy rules, rules, email policy, risks, email risks, email
 
 
 
 
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10,501 USAF members informed of missing laptop

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2008-01-01 00:15:46 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 12/28/07 Organization United States Air Force (USAF Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Active-duty and retired veterans Number Affected 10,501 Types of Data Names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and telephone numbers Breach Description A laptop containing sensitive...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, air force, air force base, laptop, personal information home, usaf band, air force officials, band
 
 
 
 
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Top 10 computer virus threat and what can you do about it?

2006-12-05 06:09:00 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
Here is a listing of Top 10 Threats by McAfee Inc . This is a good laundry list, but does not mention What Can YOU Do (WCYD) about these threats 1. Number of password-stealing Web sites will increase using fake sign-in pages for popular online services WCYD: You can visually verify the URL or even better type the URL on your own rather than...
 
Tags: wcyd, anti-virus, anti-virus software vendor, identity theft, identity theft victim, traditional anti-virus software, removal, mobile phone, sites
 
 
 
 
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Traffic stats and the top 10 blogs

2008-04-30 05:00:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
This is the 300th published entry onto this blog. I thought it might be interesting to do a quick review of how many visitors it's getting, where you are all coming from and what the most popular postings have been over the past 12 months. Traffic figures are pretty good - weekly page views are generally between 600 and 800. Not too bad for a...
 
Tags: security, information security management, blog entries, blog, entries, information security strategy, data protection act, march, readers
 
 
 
 
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10 Ways To Cheat At Being An IT Security Professional.

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2008-05-18 22:36:01 by Craig Balding in Security Wannabe
photo credit: нσвσ Be A Security Cool Cat : Place penguin stickers on every surface in your cubicle. Stick at least 3 on the dual boot company issued laptop (that hasnt had a kernel upgrade in 6 months). Use BlackHat stickers for bonus points Be An Undercover Open Source Evangelist : Unfailingly, recommend open source solutions as more...
 
Tags: vulnerability scanners, rfc, attacks, sql injection attacks, rfc shoutout, bash keyboard shortcuts, keyboard, trust no-one, security cool cat