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Some Yahoo! employees exposed through mistaken email

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2007-12-12 15:11:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...administrators at another Fidelity Investments client Evan] The notice does not inform the reader whether or not emails containing sensitive information are encrypted The e-mail contained names, Social Security numbers, and employee stock plan purchase information The incident occurred on November 12 and a determination that there had been...
 
Tags: fidelity investments, fidelity, fidelity inadvertently, fidelity investments client, email, fidelity investments inadvertently, yahoo, administrator, email administrator
 
 
 
 
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Personal Las Cruces Public Schools Special Ed information posted online

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2008-05-09 10:02:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...administrators and other LCPS employees. The breach also affected students enrolled in special education programs Number Affected 1,800 1,750 teachers, principals, administrators and other LCPS employees who had access to the SEAS system because they work with special education children or programs AND 50 students enrolled in special...
 
Tags: information, lcps, lcps employees, special education students, lcps press conference, special education, specific information, data security, data
 
 
 
 
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A VMware VirtualCenter Design Flaw?

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2008-06-19 20:30:16 by Adnan Hindi in ScienceLogic
...administrators, it absolutely wouldnt work for large environments with hundreds of hosts or thousands of virtual machines or a complex resources structure with complex storage. Or what about environments with multiple administrators? One administrator makes a change to permissions, but the next administrator has no idea and a change to...
 
Tags: networks, networks view, feature, permissions feature, view, permissions, hostsclusters view, vmware virtualcenter, virtualcenter
 
 
 
 
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IE8 ActiveX Improvements

2008-05-10 08:13:07 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...administrators can turn it off through Group Policy. You can already see from the comments to the blog entry that some people wanted this, and I guess it's a good thing. Through Per-Site ActiveX a control may be restricted to use only in the context of specific sites. If a control is run by a site not in the list, the user gets an information...
 
Tags: activex, control, site, activex control, per-site activex, activex improvements, user context, context, blog entry
 
 
 
 
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Packet heads and malware hunters rejoice

2008-04-15 10:13:00 by Russ McRee in HolisticInfoSec.org
 
...administrators understand current and emerging computer security threats and provide key network defense information that can be configured into security products to help network administrators fend off the latest malware threats The data is drawn from the Cyber-TA Honeynet Project and is extremely useful Enjoy del.icio.us | digg
 
Tags: threats, computer security threats, network administrators, network administrators fend, malware binary data, data, network traffic traces, system, intrusion detection system
 
 
 
 
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Ten Back to School Security Tips

2008-08-26 14:46:01 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...Administrators With the start of school around the corner, many IT administrators have to prep their environments for the hordes of students that will insist on downloading the entirety of Internet. Interestingly enough, our employees sometimes feel that they should do the same While they may not necessarily be visiting unsavory sites, they...
 
Tags: school security tips, school, sites, unsavory sites, administrators, start, insist, laptop, entirety
 
 
 
 
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On virtualisation

2007-05-29 16:20:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...administrators will take steps to limit the impact of a compromise of a network facing daemon, such as using chroot() or running the daemon as a low privileged user. These same tactics can be applied to your virtual machine. As always, try to minimise what has to run as root or administrator Keep software up to date Keep your virtual machine...
 
Tags: machine, virtual machine process, virtual machine software, host machine, host, software, virtual machine, low, low level access
 
 
 
 
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Web Server Software and Malware

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2007-06-05 09:30:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
...administrators Web server software distribution across malicious servers Compared to our sample of servers across the Internet, Microsoft IIS features twice as often (49% vs. 23%) as a malware distributing server. Amongst Microsoft IIS servers, the share of IIS 6.0 and IIS 5.0 remained the same at 80% and 20% respectively The...
 
Tags: servers serve malware, servers, apache servers, malicious servers, web server software, server software, web servers, microsoft iis, microsoft iis features
 
 
 
 
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Password policies. Once again.

2007-09-04 22:14:00 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...administrators. I wrote more about this subject in " When you say goodbye to an employee ." Password expiration Password expiration is an important setting for everyone. It mitigates two threats: employees sharing passwords and bad guys discovering passwords. Because we can eliminate the second threat using long simple passphrases as I...
 
Tags: account, enable account lockout, password, account lockouts, disable account lockout, 42-day default expiration, default, expiration, password expires
 
 
 
 
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Two-thirds of Oracle DBAs don't apply security patches

2008-01-14 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b41100 in Network World on Security