SEARCH RESULTS
 
Showing 1-10 of 52 records
 
Expand article

Locked Call Boxes and Banned Geiger Counters

2008-01-18 07:44:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...boxes were kept locked. Why were they kept locked and how did a person gain access to 'pull the box A: They were kept locked due to false alarms. Nearby shopkeepers or beat cops carried the keys Here's Robert Cromie, writing in The Great Chicago Fire (Thomas Nelson: 1994), page 33: William Lee, the O'Leary's neighbor, rushed into Goll's...
 
Tags: boxes, false fire alarms, fire, fire alarms, false alarms, prevent false alarms, alarm boxes, alarm, chicago fire
 
 
 
 
Expand article

From the Eye of a Legal Storm, Murdoch's Satellite-TV Hacker Tells All

2008-05-30 15:00:00 by Kim Zetter in Wired Security
 
...boxes of smart cards and thousands of dollars worth of microscopes and computers used for researching chips, he talked excitedly at lightning speed about his strange journey, which began in a top-secret Pentagon communications center, and ended with him working both sides of a heated electronic war over pay TV Satellite-TV hacker Chris...
 
Tags: smart cards piled, cards, nds cards, access cards, sample directv cards, directv cards, smart cards, nds smart cards, nds
 
 
 
 
Expand article

First Magnus Financial customer data found in dumpster

The Article has images
2008-02-21 13:56:43 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...boxes containing thousands of sensitive loan and financial documents were discovered in an dumpster outside a Ft. Lauderdale, Florida branch of the now bankrupt First Magnus Financial Corporation. The documents contain sensitive personal information belonging to customers Reference URL CBS Channel 4 News online story Report Credit Carey...
 
Tags: magnus, magnus financial, magnus financial corporation, police, police officers, documents, sensitive documents, police departments, financial documents
 
 
 
 
Expand article

RIP Cisco PIX

The Article has images
2008-02-06 06:46:31 by HASH0x8bc6004 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...boxes went the same way. For me personally the PIX firewalls just seemed to always be there. Yes Checkpoint was the "cool" firewall when I first got into security, but PIX was from Cisco and it seemed like the cornerstone of their security business. Their IDS was not so good for a long time. Cisco's other security products were never...
 
Tags: pix, box, utm box, utm, pix boxes, boxes, pix owners, utm duty, analyst
 
 
 
 
Expand article

RIP Cisco PIX

The Article has images
2008-02-06 07:00:00 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...boxes went the same way. For me personally the PIX firewalls just seemed to always be there. Yes Checkpoint was the "cool" firewall when I first got into security, but PIX was from Cisco and it seemed like the cornerstone of their security business. Their IDS was not so good for a long time. Cisco's other security products were never...
 
Tags: pix, box, utm box, utm, pix boxes, boxes, pix owners, utm duty, analyst
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Drama surrounds People's United Bank breach

The Article has images
2008-04-08 12:47:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...boxes of documents to Attorney General Richard Blumenthal The AG's office late Wednesday refused to talk to him until lawyers there investigated the restraining order. It had not made a determination on how it can proceed Evan] This is sad. I think it is in the public's and the victims' best interests to have the Attorney General investigate...
 
Tags: bank, financial information, information, confidential information, people, bank deposit, hastings, james hastings dove, bank set
 
 
 
 
Expand article

What hardware will the "God Box" run on?

2008-04-30 23:56:00 by HASH0x8b4a5d4 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...boxes, but whether or not these "God boxes" will be expensive, proprietary black boxes like Cisco routers or low-cost standards based off the shelf hardware. With this announcement, we are covering all of our bases and saying you pick the platform of your choice, we will support it. That is the StillSecure way
 
Tags: cisco subnet article, cisco subnet, cisco, cisco routers, subnet article, article, cisco isr, linux app server, low-cost standards based
 
 
 
 
Expand article

The Security Mindset

2008-03-25 05:27:19 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...boxes , Quiet Care Elder Care monitors , Apple's Time Capsule , GM's OnStar , traffic lights , safe deposit boxes , and dorm room security One recent one is about an automobile dealership. The poster described how she was able to retrieve her car after service just by giving the attendant her last name. Now any normal car owner would be happy...
 
Tags: security mindset, mindset, security mindset immediately, security mindset explains, security mindset simply, security, security mindset involves, involves, security requires
 
 
 
 
Expand article

The Security Mindset

2008-03-25 05:27:19 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...boxes , Quiet Care Elder Care monitors , Apple's Time Capsule , GM's OnStar , traffic lights , safe deposit boxes , and dorm room security One recent one is about an automobile dealership. The poster described how she was able to retrieve her car after service just by giving the attendant her last name. Now any normal car owner would be happy...
 
Tags: security mindset, mindset, security mindset immediately, security mindset explains, security mindset simply, security, security mindset involves, involves, security requires
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Milton Security Group takes over Vernier EdgeWall 7000 support - Who is Milton Security?

2008-04-11 22:13:00 by HASH0x890482c in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...boxes. At best Milton will be pressed to keep up with the snort and nessus signatures the Vernier boxes use. I guess being this small, without VC money behind them, they might be just better off using the Tenable and Sourcefire signatures and hope that those guys figure they are too small to sue If you are a Vernier customer you have to be...
 
Tags: milton, milton security, milton-bradley, milton security serves, vernier, v