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Myth vs. reality: Wireless SSIDs

2007-10-16 07:08:58 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...breath, then shot several times for good measure Folks, there are fundamental differences between names, which are public claims of identities, and authenticators, which are secrets used to prove identities, and I've written extensively about this before . An SSID is a network name , not -- I repeat, not -- a password. A wireless network has...
 
Tags: simple ssid discovery, network, ssid, wireless network, networks, enterprise networks, wireless networks, mac, secure networks
 
 
 
 
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Google Changes Privacy Policy

2007-03-15 08:31:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...breath of fresh air The second item came out yesterday on Googles corporate blog. They announced a new log retention policy that would anonymize the data after an 18 to 24 months period unless they are legally required to retain them. They also said they would look at improving users privacy across the board, including services like Google...
 
Tags: privacy, google, privacy concerns, policy, google chat, financial data, data, google desktop, users privacy
 
 
 
 
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Stolen Salesforce.com unencrypted external storage device

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2008-02-12 13:32:40 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...breath We take our obligation to safeguard your personal information very seriously, and are working to further enhance our data security practices to prevent this type of event from reoccurring Evan] I see this same (or very similar) remark in almost all breach notifications. IF a company or organization REALLY does take their obligation...
 
Tags: external storage device, storage device, sensitive personal information, personal information, device, personal information includes, information, salesforce, data
 
 
 
 
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First Magnus Financial customer data found in dumpster

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2008-02-21 13:56:43 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...breath. First Magnus is bankrupt and has not paid employees after the company folded on August 16, 2007. Who from First Magnus is left to come and get the documents Commentary Bankruptcy stinks. It stinks for creditors, customers and employees. This bankruptcy stinks a little more for customers because of poor common sense and judgment....
 
Tags: magnus, magnus financial, magnus financial corporation, police, police officers, documents, sensitive documents, police departments, financial documents
 
 
 
 
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NGO Security Scenario #21 - The Heat is On

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2008-03-02 18:30:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
...breath. Would placing a wet bandanna over your face help? Share your thoughts by clicking on COMMENTS below Note : A PowerPoint presentation (in PDF format) by the Incident Commander discussing the event, with lots of photos, is here . Contrast what you see in the video with the description of the actual incident. The U.S. Forest Service,...
 
Tags: wildland fire community, wildland, wet bandanna, south america, pdf format, program manager, play button, humanitarian community, primary threats
 
 
 
 
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Border Security: the Weakest Link

2008-03-19 13:00:14 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Despite "heartbeat sensors, CO 2 probes to detect exhaled breath and "passive millimetre wave" scanners which can 'see through vehicles," it's easy to sneak into the UK from Calais due to inadequate fencing
 
Tags: passive millimetre wave, heartbeat sensors, calais due, vehicles, sneak, detect, probes, breath, easy
 
 
 
 
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Listen up IT geeks and users alike!

2008-07-07 20:38:36 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...breath of fresh air. Great Article, Im reading part II now clipped from technet.microsoft.com Passwords and Credit Cards, Part 1 Some days it feels like most of the security advice and many of the security technologies we inflict upon our users is inactionable, incorrect, incomprehensible, or (in many cases) some combination of the three....
 
Tags: users, technologies, security technologies, security advice, advice, confuse users, article, fresh air, common sense
 
 
 
 
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Reference Clients, the Global Meltdown and CEP

2008-07-18 12:34:12 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...breath and count the days One risk management colleague often says When then tide is high, you cant see that the swimmers are naked and so it is in business. The current problems in the global market are based on human, social, and political errors and incompetence; nothing that technology can cure at this point in the game. So, the entire...
 
Tags: cep, market, market free, cepep, includes cepep software, global market, software, cepep reference clients, cep revenue
 
 
 
 
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Ideal Tool to Solve Real Problems ... of the Near Future? - II

2008-08-04 21:30:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...breath. Only then we can attempt to reliable handle "proactive logging" (i.e. analyzing various failure or compromise precursors in logs and then predicting the future based on them), another Holy Grail of logging domain Anything new will emerge? Yes, I think awareness of the "Logging Gap" problem will grow . "Logging gap" happens when you...
 
Tags: log discovery, log, log diversity, esoteric log sources, log security, application log explosion, application, log analysis, log volume
 
 
 
 
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Why Risk Management Doesnt Work (?!)

2008-10-08 17:15:14 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...breath. The conversation goes a little something like this (apologies to Rich Business Guy Who Wants to Make Money Because Thats What Businesses Do: Based on market studies, we believe that initial gross revenues from the new product and technology rollout will be eleventy gazillion dollars based on a 37% market penetration in Scandinavia,...