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Exclusive Defcon 16 Badge Sneak Peak

2008-08-06 08:02:21 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Wired.com was granted the first ever exclusive sneak peak of a Defcon Badge. Defcon, the world's largest hacker convention, starts Friday. The badge is hackable and packed full of features
 
Tags: defcon, badge, defcon badge, exclusive sneak peak, hacker convention, starts friday, features, world, hackable
 
 
 
 
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Geeks.com customer credit card data compromised

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2008-01-07 21:34:58 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...badge on ecommerce sites offers customers and ecommerce shop owners a false sense of security? I do know that the "Hacker Safe" badge certainly and obviously does not guarantee that your order or personal information is safe. Nothing will The Computerworld story has some good commentary on the "Hacker Safe" badge I am a disappointed that...
 
Tags: credit, credit card, card, geeks, credit reports, report credit, breach description, breach, apparent breach
 
 
 
 
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FAA Badges Missing

2008-03-11 11:14:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...badges have been stolen or lost in the past five years. The credentials are one of the few forms of identification that give complete and unfettered access to airport facilities, including the cockpits of planes in flight The FAA badge is probably of all the badges just as dangerous if not more so than any other," aviation expert Denny Kelly...
 
Tags: faa badge, badge, person free access, access, airport, airport facilities, badges, airline, commercial pilot
 
 
 
 
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Live from the ?Configuresoft? Conference

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2008-08-07 01:47:19 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...badge. As I neared the escalators, I started seeing a lot of folks with badges on that said "Configuresoft I thought, hmm, there must be another conference going on here at the same time - which would be weird, since Black Hat filled the areas last year Anyway, I trudged on, found registration and got my badge for Black Hat. Here is a...
 
Tags: conference, black hat, conference progresses, quick story, badge, configuresoft, lot, time, registration
 
 
 
 
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Censoring Web 2.0 - The Access Denied Map

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2007-12-03 10:31:55 by HASH0x89e8c58 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...badge that's spreading censored content, the Global Voices Advocacy " seeks to build a global anti-censorship network of bloggers and online activists dedicated to protecting freedom of expression and free access to information online. " and aims to act as a vehicle to communicate the censored information to the rest of the world, a far more...
 
Tags: information online, online, anti-censorship, global anti-censorship network, online censorship, bloggers figure, global voices advocacy, bloggers, online activists
 
 
 
 
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Social-Engineering Bank Robbery

2008-01-16 06:36:39 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...badge and a gun holster on his belt, said Debbie Weierman, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Washington field office. He told officials at the bank, at 801 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, that he was filling in for the regular courier About 4 p.m., when the real guard showed up, a bank official told him that someone had picked up the cash, D.C. police said....
 
Tags: bank, officials, bank officials, bank official, bbt bank, security company brink, washington field office, company, office
 
 
 
 
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Late thoughts from CES - data leakage via gumdrops

2008-01-22 13:49:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...badge swipe I remember when flash drives first came out: 8 or 16MB cost more than $100, and people gladly paid it. The price point has hockey-sticked downward, and with it, demand for more and more storage that fits in your pocket has skyrocketed. To me, however, theres a more important focus: when 2GB flash drives are being tossed around...
 
Tags: 2gb flash, 2gb flash drive, flash, gain access, access, files, bad guys, access control, guys
 
 
 
 
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Got advertisement? Maybe you should shout your PCI compliance from the rooftops!

2007-11-30 14:57:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
Will advertising the fact that you are PCI compliant make you more of a target? I dont believe so Heres why. Its no longer the proverbial pimply-faced kid who is hacking into the company. It is organized crime that is doing so. And what do these guys want? Money, pure and simple - and from sensitive information such as cardholder data. They are...
 
Tags: data, card data, data safe, customer data, pci compliance, pci compliant, consumers care, consumers, cardholder data
 
 
 
 
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The Thin Blue Line

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2007-09-05 12:47:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
...badge ... take this gun Will you take it ... will anyone And when you watch a person die And hear a battered baby cry Then do you think that you can be All these things you ask of me
 
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RSA 2008 - A Theme Identified: Guitar Hero

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2008-04-08 05:53:28 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog