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Banning function calls, assurance, and retrofitting

2008-03-18 19:48:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...clean up the old code you have around. You can choose to go several routes File defects against the old code for any use of a banned function, without investigating the specific use File defects against old code only after verifying that in the context you have a potential vulnerability Get a dedicated team together to just go and clean up...
 
Tags: code review experience, code, security sensitive context, context, security critical context, unsafe context, static analyzer, file defects, rand
 
 
 
 
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Hotel's Dirty Drinks

2008-03-22 22:41:25 by JJ in Security Uncorked
 
...clean and replace those in-room glasses Over the past several weeks I took a mental survey of housekeeping carts. (I frequently sneak an extra shampoo or conditioner at some point, so Ive usually spent a bit of time exploring the carts, and whats on them.) I thought about it and realized Ive never seen glasses (clean or dirty) on any...
 
Tags: dirty, glasses, in-room glasses, frequently sneak, frequently, link, carts, dirty drink, water
 
 
 
 
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Controversy surrounds Royal Perth computers and patients

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2008-04-08 00:21:25 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...clean The hospital yesterday denied this, saying the computer hard drives were cleaned and the computers were collected every day by contractors to be crushed Evan] If the "computer hard drives were cleaned", then how was The Sunday Times able to get the sensitive information and if the computers are "collected every day" then how was it...
 
Tags: hospital claim, hospital, computers, hospital computers, sunday times hired, sunday times, patient details, confidential patient details, times
 
 
 
 
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Personal information from two Colorado mortgage companies found in dumpsters

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2008-05-07 22:20:50 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...clean out his office and throw all items from the office -- including complete mortgage files -- into two Dumpsters Evan] Maybe the property manager should pay a little closer attention to the things they throw in the dumpster. Having said this, the property manager is not really at fault David Peters who works in the same complex found the...
 
Tags: mortgage files, numerous mortgage files, personal information, information, complete mortgage files, personal information poorly, files, cove creek mortgage, cove creek
 
 
 
 
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Crossing Borders with Laptops and PDAs

2008-05-16 06:10:33 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...clean up your laptop. A customs agent can't read what you don't have. You don't need five years' worth of email and client data. You don't need your old love letters and those photos (you know the ones I'm talking about). Delete everything you don't absolutely need. And use a secure file erasure program to do it. While you're at it, delete...
 
Tags: customs agent pokes, customs agent, british customs agents, customs agents, agent, customs, entire hard drive, hard drive, data
 
 
 
 
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Notes from IEEE Web 2.0 Security and Privacy Workshop (W2SP2008)

2008-05-27 22:45:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...clean way of separating the security policies here Collin went on to show a multitude of problems in the same origin policy between sites, and problems in the upgrade/downgrade of security indicators in a browser. I won't rehash all of his results but suffice it to say we desperately need things like ForceHTTPS embeded in browsers in the...
 
Tags: browser, browser security models, browser project, browser security model, security models, browser security, security, web, security challenges
 
 
 
 
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White House Refused to Open Pollutants E-Mail

2008-06-26 12:54:58 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...Clean Air Act can work for certain sectors of the economy, to reduce greenhouse gases, one of the senior E.P.A. officials said. Thats not what the administration wants to show. They want to show that the Clean Air Act cant work November cant come soon enough Article Link
 
Tags: white house, clean air act, reduce greenhouse gases, greenhouse gases, regulation, officials, motor vehicle emissions, business critical function, tough regulation
 
 
 
 
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You want the truth, you can't handle the truth!

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2008-07-10 22:35:46 by HASH0x8beb300 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...clean the sand out of laptops coming home from SWA (that is SouthWest Asia, like in Iraq and Afghanistan, in case you dont know Richard), it should be good enough for you. Think about that next time you are about to bad mouth NAC Let me give you some other truths you may not like Richard. Why do you think every switch vendor (of which we...
 
Tags: nac, nac stick, richard, bad mouth nac, richard stiennon, importantly richard, nac knock, assume richard, nac solutions
 
 
 
 
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You want the truth, you can't handle the truth!

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2008-07-10 22:50:16 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...clean the sand??? out of laptops coming home from SWA (that is SouthWest Asia, like in Iraq and Afghanistan, in case you don???t know Richard), it should be good enough for you. Think about that next time you are about to bad mouth NAC Let me give you some other truths you may not like Richard. Why do you think every switch vendor (of which...
 
Tags: nac, nac stick, richard, richard stiennon, bad mouth nac, importantly richard, nac knock, assume richard, event richard