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Show 014 - An Interview with Peter Neumann

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2007-05-22 17:04:03 by rmacmich in The Silver Bullet Security Podcast
The 14th episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast features Peter Neumann, designer of the Multics OS file system, moderator of comp.RISKS, and Principal Scientist at the SRI Computer Science Laboratory. In this show, Gary and Peter discuss the most important changes in computer security since the 1960s, the discipline involved in early...
 
Tags: multics, multics history project, general-purpose file system, file system, peter neumann, wrong, risks, brooklyn boogaloo blowout, wrong solution
 
 
 
 
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How Well "See Something, Say Something" Actually Works

2008-01-08 07:53:50 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Brooklyn man was charged with making anti-Semitic threats against his landlord and threatening to use sarin gas on him. At least two men arrested on tips from the hot line were turned over to immigration officials for deportation, Mr. Browne said And as long as we're on the topic, read about the Spanish couple branded as terrorists in the UK...
 
Tags: line, front-line security personnel, calls, hot line, calls led, people, suspicious people, browne, normal people
 
 
 
 
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Heavily Armed Officers on New York City Subways

2008-02-07 06:06:42 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Brooklyn What does it accomplish besides intimidating innocent commuters
 
Tags: patrol platforms, subway system daily, patrol, tactical plan, officers, rockefeller center, city, times square, herald square
 
 
 
 
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Long Island University notifies students of mailing error

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2008-02-12 09:53:50 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Brooklyn and C.W. Post; and its regional campuses The personal data includes names, addresses and Social Security Numbers Earlier this week, University officials discovered that some IRS 1098-T "Tuition Statement" forms for 2007, that had been delivered to the Post Office in what may have been defective mailers supplied to the University,...
 
Tags: island university, university, post, post office personnel, students, post office, personal data, data, social security
 
 
 
 
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Risk vs Vulnerability

2007-12-18 17:51:44 by Chris Wysopal in Zero in a bit
 
...Brooklyn, NY. Same vulnerability, different threat environment. Everyone readily admits that Macs have less risk on average due to their population and user base. This does not mean they are more secure. Move them into a high risk environment such as the hacker challenge at CanSecWest and they fall down. Just because there are no crackheads...
 
Tags: vulnerability, risk, vulnerability counts, risk environment, backdoor, backdoor safely, secure, average due, hacker challenge
 
 
 
 
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Creating and Entrapping Terrorists

2008-03-05 06:25:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Brooklyn, a Guyanese immigrant and former cargo handler named Russell Defreitas was arrested last spring for plotting to blow up fuel tanks at JFK International Airport. In fact, before he encountered the might of the JTTF, Defreitas was a vagrant who sold incense on the streets of Queens and spent his spare time checking pay phones for...
 
Tags: terrorist, modern terrorist, hossain, terrorist conspiracies, deal hossain claims, yassin aref, aref, terrorist plot, stop federal agents
 
 
 
 
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Presbyterian Hospital admissions rep allegedly steals patient information

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2008-04-14 16:04:54 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Brooklyn, admitted he began to access the files and sell information in early 2006 the information was used for identity theft McPherson was released on Saturday under the condition that he not leave the state McPherson was released on $500,000 bail Evan] Whoa! Does this mean that he had to come up with $50,000 to post bail? I think you...
 
Tags: information, sensitive personal information, personal information, records, access records, dwight mcpherson, mcpherson, patients, male patients
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Big Brother Fi; Eugene (Ore.); Milpitas (Calif.); XP Net Monitor

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2008-04-24 13:54:32 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...Brooklyn where Emery Martin heads a conceptual group that advocates volunteers to monitor open Wi-Fi networks to make terrorists aren't planning attacks on "your own home network." He provides technical details for connecting to and dumping all the traffic passing over open access points. It's a send-up of the government's warrantless...
 
Tags: access, free wi-fi access, windows, xirrus releases windows, widget, free yahoo widget, public access, city hall, city
 
 
 
 
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Citibank Replaces Some ATM Cards After Online PIN Heist

2008-06-20 20:46:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
In the wake of an arrest of two Brooklyn men caught with over $800,000 in cash, Citibank warns bank customers that their ATM PIN codes may have been leaked in a breach of a "third party" processor. The FBI says a hacked Citibank server was at fault
 
Tags: atm pin codes, citibank server, fbi, processor, party, breach, cash, brooklyn, fault
 
 
 
 
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Some of the other noteworthy breaches last week, 6/16/08 - 6/22/08

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2008-06-23 08:11:34 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Brooklyn men making hundreds of fraudulent withdrawals from New York City cash machines in February, pocketing at least $750,000 in cash, according to federal prosecutors The ATM crime spree is apparently the first to be publicly linked to the breach of a major U.S. bank's systems, experts say Security firm finds server with health-care...
 
Tags: major security breach, breach, security breach, data, airline systems data, breaches, noteworthy breaches, indiana bank breach, sensitive data