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Customers of 14 Advance Auto Parts stores are victims of intrusion

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2008-03-31 21:45:18 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 3/31/08 Organization Advance Auto Parts, Inc Headquartered in Roanoke, Va., Advance Auto Parts is the second-largest retailer of automotive aftermarket parts, accessories, batteries, and maintenance items in the United States, based on store count and sales. As of December 29, 2007, the Company...
 
Tags: advance auto, advance, confidential financial information, information, financial information, stores, information security, customers, account information
 
 
 
 
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Creating An Auto Hack USB Drive Using Autorun and Batch Files. By Dosk3n

2007-10-12 19:56:23 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
New Video: Creating An Auto Hack USB Drive Using Autorun and Batch Files. By Dosk3n Dosk3n was kind enough to send me the video, text an narration for a new infosec video. All I had to do was plug it into my template. If anyone else wants to submit a video, read my page on How I Make The Hacking Illustrated Videos . My only stipulations are that...
 
Tags: infosec videos page, infosec video, video, videos, dosk3n, page, batch files, autorun, submit
 
 
 
 
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My New Favorite Tool Case Complete by Serlio Software

2006-10-17 04:54:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
After trying to do UML Use Cases in Microsoft Word (2003) for the past 2 weeks I finally decided that Ive had it. The way Word deals with lists is great for 99% of the population out there, but it drives you mad when you are trying to put in ordered lists that begin with a certain seed So after Word crashed numerous times (each time deleting...
 
Tags: word, word report, microsoft word, exception steps, move step, step, exception, word deals, serlio software
 
 
 
 
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SDL and Filtering

2008-03-13 15:00:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
Hi, Ralph Hood here. I should probably take a minute to introduce myself since this is my first official SDL blog post. Ive been a program manager at Microsoft for almost nine years. In past roles at Microsoft I was the lead program manager for security response in the Windows Sustained Engineering group, and in my last role I was a project...
 
Tags: sdl, sdl requirements, product cycle, product, product team, sdl team, product type, type, code type
 
 
 
 
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Your Turn At The Bar Again? Security Costs in a Pay Per Drink Cloud

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2008-05-01 20:55:26 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
With in-house IT, you pay your upfront capital costs and maintenance fees and you get whatever compute power you paid for. If you over-specify, you have excess computer power or disk - you are wasting money. If you under-specify, you may be forced to raid your rainy day budget and order new hardware A primary selling point of Cloud Computing is...
 
Tags: security costs, costs, runtime security costs, security runtime costs, security, security tool, security tool inefficiency, security tools plays, plays
 
 
 
 
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Phishing Using FasterFox Prefetching

2008-01-03 16:18:15 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
I actually had to read this email several times before I got it - paranoia taking over - I thought I was being told my site was hacked. No no, just another interesting way to abuse people that people find when visiting my site. This time, this email comes from Alex who found that pre-fetching can be used to phish users in certain circumstances...
 
Tags: fasterfox, firefox prefetches, trick fasterfox-users, http-auth dialog pops, link, http-auth dialog immediately, firefox, email, people
 
 
 
 
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Say Goodbye to IE6.0! Hello IE7.0!

2008-01-21 16:35:03 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
Theres an interesting article over on PC World about an auto-update that Microsoft is pushing on Feb 12th . This update will be an automatic update of IE6.0 to IE7.0. Thats right, folks all you people who were writing exploits against IE6.0 will have little to no market share left. Here comes IE7.0. IE7.0 has a few significant improvements for...
 
Tags: ie6, ie7, love ie6, bad, feb 12th, notable change, people, microsoft, significant improvements
 
 
 
 
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Mujahideen Secrets 2 Encryption Tool Released

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2008-01-21 15:37:17 by HASH0x8b0f9c4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Originally introduced by the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF), the second version of the Mujahideen Secrets encryption tool was released online approximately two days ago, on behalf of the Al-Ekhlaas Islamic Network. Original and translated press release Is the first program of the Islamic multicast security across networks. It represents the...
 
Tags: secrets, tool, encryption, secrets encryption tool, encryption keys, keys, digital, digital signature files, islamic
 
 
 
 
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To Remove the Worse You Need the Best

2007-08-01 19:25:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
To Remove the Worse You Need the Best Imagine yourself walking along a busy street, minding your own business. You stop by a men's clothing store. You look at the window display, point at a new pair of shoes. After a few minutes of gawking at the window display you move on home As you go inside your house, you noticed a flyer on your porch....
 
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Adware and Spyware Such a Pain

2007-08-01 19:17:00 by jack in