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Intellectual Property- what is it and how do we secure it?

2007-12-29 06:43:45 by Editor in Security Links
 
...Commentary on the TRIPS Agreement . This book distils the essence of the TRIPS Agreement making it easily interpretable by the layman as well as the legal professional For a more thorough country-by-country approach to the legal aspects of patents and which treaties or agreements are, in effect, within a particular country then International...
 
Tags: intellectual property, treaties, international patent treaties, major copyright agreements, agreements, copyright, rights, intellectual property rights, copyright legislation
 
 
 
 
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Lock-In

2008-02-12 06:08:15 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...commentary , which is oddly political: This isnt lock-in, its called choosing a product that meets your needs. If you dont want to be tied to a particular phone network, dont buy an iPhone. If installing third-party applications (between now and the end of February, when officially-sanctioned ones will start to appear) is critically important...
 
Tags: lock-in, software, software development kit, custom software, software company, security, hardware, special security hardware, security mechanism
 
 
 
 
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Passport Canada web site suffers serious breach

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2007-12-05 11:51:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...commentary Report Credit Kenyon Wallace, Globe and Mail (CA Response From the sources cited above A security flaw in Passport Canada's website has allowed easy access to the personal information - including social insurance numbers, dates of birth and driver's licence numbers - of people applying for new passports The breach was...
 
Tags: passport canada, information, personal information, passport application information, application, breach, passport application site, passport canada spokesman, significant security breaches
 
 
 
 
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Geeks.com customer credit card data compromised

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2008-01-07 21:34:58 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Commentary I have my own opinion of course, but do you think that the "Hacker Safe" badge on ecommerce sites offers customers and ecommerce shop owners a false sense of security? I do know that the "Hacker Safe" badge certainly and obviously does not guarantee that your order or personal information is safe. Nothing will The Computerworld...
 
Tags: credit, credit card, card, geeks, credit reports, report credit, breach description, breach, apparent breach
 
 
 
 
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My Open Wireless Network

2008-01-15 03:33:22 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...commentary EDITED TO ADD (1/16): Even more commentary
 
Tags: wireless network, network, fon wireless network, public, public network, computer, computer security, wireless security, wireless security protocol
 
 
 
 
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Systematic Automations breach continued...

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2008-02-25 10:28:07 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Commentary As stated earlier in the posting, this is the fourth organization affected by this single breach. I wonder if any one of the organizations inspected Systematic Automation's information security practices. If they had, would they have known that Systematic Automation stores sensitive personal information entrusted to multiple...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, district, information, 33-campus district, district officials, enrolls district staffers, information security practices, school district vendor
 
 
 
 
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Central Bank of the UAE reports ATM fraud to lenders

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2008-03-03 11:41:37 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Commentary Good commentary from ArabianBusiness.com Skimming attacks normally involve the placement of a fake card reader over the regular card reader in an ATM, which reads and records the data from the card's magnetic strip, while either a hidden camera or a nearby observer, known as a shoulder surfer', steals the PIN The stolen details...
 
Tags: bank card details, card details, bank, bank card, atm, regular card reader, reader, customers, bank customers
 
 
 
 
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40,000 BlueCross BlueShield members notified of lost laptop

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2008-03-11 15:31:27 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...commentary below officials first "spent an exhorbitant amount of time" to try and locate the laptop, which they still believe is in the companys building Using the companys shared drive and with the cooperation of the employee, officials retraced his path to determine what information he was working with. The company then set up the...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, confidential information, laptop, information owners, breach description, breach, security breach
 
 
 
 
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Oklahoma Department of Corrections SQL exposure

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2008-04-21 11:23:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Commentary I highly suggest that people read the source article . Alex does an excellent job of describing the problem and his commentary is priceless Past Breaches Unknown
 
Tags: social security, oklahoma, sql, residents, oklahoma residents, bad, bad news, department, sql query
 
 
 
 
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Stolen SunGard laptop affects at least 10 post-secondary schools

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2008-04-21 14:49:39 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Commentary I provided a lot of my commentary above. There is no excuse that I can think of for such poor information security practice and management. Can the people running these companies (such as SunGard) and those responsible for information security claim they didn't know any better? Does it not go against SunGard Higher Education (or...
 
Tags: information, personal information, store confidential information, university, university system, data custodians apply, data custodians, information security governance, sungard