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Williamson County Schools learns of breach reported nine months ago

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2008-07-13 00:12:01 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...behaviors at Williamson County Schools. This risky behavior just so happened to expose personal information online. What other risky behaviors will be addressed at the school district Now about the Liberty Coalition's role. I appreciate the motives of Aaron Titus and the Liberty Coalition. He maintains the SSNBreach.org web site where he...
 
Tags: school, school students, schools, williamson county schools, williamson county, county, breach, school authorities, school district
 
 
 
 
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Myth vs. reality: Wireless SSIDs

2007-10-16 07:08:58 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...behaviors make it very easy for an attacker to discover your SSID. The bad guy, perhaps a contractor or a guest in your facility, could run one of many wireless sniffer programs and simply capture the hundreds of association frames or probes that litter your air. No amount of "hiding" configured in your access points can prevent this kind of...
 
Tags: simple ssid discovery, network, ssid, wireless network, networks, enterprise networks, wireless networks, mac, secure networks
 
 
 
 
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Polyphasic Sleep

2007-03-20 21:04:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...behaviors without the sun or a clock to reinforce their traditional sleeping patterns So I am going to try it. I just woke up from a 90 minute nap and Im feeling refreshed. Ill have one caffeine drink now and will sleep for another 90 minutes when I tire. Hopefully this will help me feel more rested. Ill report back in a few weeks to let you...
 
Tags: polyphasic, develop polyphasic behaviors, naps, polyphasic sleepers, minute naps, nature exhibit polyphasic, monophasic world, monophasic, caffeine
 
 
 
 
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Reliability Vs. Security

2007-12-07 16:46:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...behaviors are bugs and which are by design; its an unerring guide to testing. Security folks have no such oracle since we have no way of specifying all the ways in which an application might be exploited (a threat model might represent our best effort). Without such a spec, topics such as coverage, completeness and so forth have little...
 
Tags: folks, reliability folks deal, reliability, reliability folks, security, bugs, reliability bugs, reliability analysis, software reliability
 
 
 
 
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Ethics of Autonomous Military Robots

2008-01-28 07:12:35 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...behaviors only provide responses within rigorously defined ethical boundaries The creation of techniques to permit the adaptation of an ethical constraint set and underlying behavioral control parameters that will ensure moral performance, should those norms be violated in any way, involving reflective and affective processing A means to...
 
Tags: ethical, ethical constraint set, ethical robotic warfighter, ethics, ethical boundaries, international protocols, war tradition subscribes, war, international
 
 
 
 
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Inflecting end-user awareness

2006-12-03 20:27:35 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...behaviors 5. Leverage your existing marketing communications (and other cross functional departments) to run the program 6. Monitor compliance across various business units, show them them the comparative chart - this will create a healthy competition 7. Keep the program up to date, revise the program based on the feedback Design the...
 
Tags: program, end-user awareness program, program based, segment program, informative handout, handout, security awareness initiative, business units, behavioral change
 
 
 
 
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How aware are your employees on IT security and risk policies?

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2008-01-08 18:50:00 by Ryan Shopp in practical risk management
...behaviors of a malicious insider. Do your employees know what to look for, what indicators there are that an insider is doing something on your networks or to your institutions data snip A new thing to many that was mention in here was "ID Red Flags." Federal ID Red Flags are suppose to be in place by November 1, 2008 (about 10 months from...
 
Tags: employees, theft red flags, malicious insider, insider, red flags, prevent identity theft, identity theft, security, risk
 
 
 
 
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Network Security It Takes a Village

2008-05-14 13:05:15 by Louis DiMeglio in ScienceLogic
 
...behaviors. Dragon identified what IP, MAC address or port on a switch was having the issue which information was cross-checked against vendor registry info in EM7 to track down offenders to a booth, a room or a wireless access point in the facility. Splunk was also used to look at logs and verify the source of bad behavior For tracking down...
 
Tags: network, degrade network, temporary network takes, internal devices, enterasys dragon ids, devices, enterasys, network segment, dragon
 
 
 
 
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2008-08-02 00:00:00 by Editor in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
7 Reasons Why You Wont be Getting a Raise this Year and What You Can Do About it | Employee Evolution The Art of Dysfunction | securosis.com * Early Funnel Cheerleading: how to use a parade of suspects as a smokescreen * ABB: always be blaming * Layering dysfunction behaviors * It is OK to NOT sell: building a culture of failure * The Gatling...
 
Tags: dysfunction, dysfunction behaviors, art, employee evolution, funnel, abb, reasons, gun, raise
 
 
 
 
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Verizon helps customers get a knack for NAC

2008-08-12 07:00:00 by Brad Reed in Network World on Security
 
Verizon Business is offering to help its customers deploy and manage network access control (NAC) technologies that grant users access to networks based not on their IP addresses, but on a combination of their identities, end points and behaviors