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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
 
...Daniel Sandler and Dan S. Wallach. must die Daniel presented some good idea on how to move password authentication into the browser chrome to improve our defenses against javascript malware such as javascript keyloggers, etc While the work Daniel did was quite cool in that it doesn't require any protocol modifications, to be truly useful in...
 
Tags: browser, browser security models, browser project, browser security model, security models, browser security, security, web, security challenges
 
 
 
 
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Five-year-old wanders into bank branch after-hours

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2008-02-06 10:24:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Daniel, when the family visited the cash machine at Easingwold, North Yorkshire, on Saturday afternoon Mrs Pettigrew said: "We usually go into the bank and so Oliver just pushed the door and wandered in I was at the cash machine and it was Oliver's dad who started saying, 'where's Oliver? where's Oliver?' "Then Oliver appeared again. He and...
 
Tags: bank, customers, bank customers, bank after-hours, branch, door malfunction, bank doors, malfunction, breach description
 
 
 
 
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Hacking Medical Devices

2008-03-12 10:39:59 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Daniel Halperin, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno, and William H. Maisel, IEEE Pervasive Computing, January 2008 Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses ," Daniel Halperin, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Benjamin Ransford, Shane S. Clark, Benessa Defend, Will Morgan,...
 
Tags: devices, security, malicious security attack, cardiac, security risks, dangerous cardiac events, risks, icd incapable, icd
 
 
 
 
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Who's Behind the GPcode Ransomware?

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2008-06-10 09:44:53 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Daniel Robertson Second sample response email this time requesting $200 The price of decryptor is 200 USD. For payment you may use one of following variants: 1. Payment to E-Gold account 5437838 (www.e-gold.com). 2. Payment to Liberty Reserve account U6890784 (www.libertyreserve.com). 3. If you do not make one of this variants, contact us...
 
Tags: account, e-gold account, e-gold, file, sample response email, txt file, virtual currency accounts, liberty reserve accounts, liberty reserve
 
 
 
 
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The Corporate Risks Associated with Obsolete Computer Equipment

2007-11-09 00:00:00 by Editor in Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers
 
In this paper, Daniel James discusses the risks posed by obsolete computer equipment in a corporate environment
 
Tags: obsolete computer equipment, daniel james discusses, risks posed, environment, paper
 
 
 
 
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Stolen UK Ministry of Defence laptop affects up to 600,000

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2008-01-20 14:51:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Daniel Fernandez, UK Commentary A common theme in the news stories that I have read point the blame on the Navy officer. I don't doubt that he has some blame in this case, but I think the issue is much larger. There is very little mention about what MoD's policy and procedure is with regards to confidential personal information. If the Navy...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, sensitive personal information, information, extensive personal data, personal data, personal, information held, data protection practices
 
 
 
 
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Employee fraud at Tenet Healthcare affects 37,000

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2008-02-18 10:26:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Daniel Brownstein, The Beaufort Gazette Response From the online sources cited above A former employee of a locally connected national hospital chain who was convicted of identity theft had access to the personal information of about 37,000 patients, according to a company spokesman Terrance Brooks, 30, of Fort Worth, was arrested Nov. 25...
 
Tags: tenet, require, require social security, security, tenet healthcare corp, employee fraud, fraud, letters, tenet notification letters
 
 
 
 
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What can CISOs learn from the Societe Generale debacle

2008-02-19 09:17:17 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...Daniel Bouton unbelievable that a person could single-handedly circumvent the security of Frances second largest bank to cause so much damage. This event brings to bear what security professionals have been saying for years focus on the insider threat. Mr. Kerviel cost the bank $7.2 billion by making huge unauthorized trades that he hid for...
 
Tags: security, formal security strategy, societe generale, security technology, external security challenges, implement security, access, security products, access users
 
 
 
 
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Malware What It Is and How to Avoid It

2008-02-26 00:00:00 by Editor in Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers
 
Daniel James submits this study on the different types of malware and how to protect against them
 
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Harvard University warns graduate students about web hack

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2008-03-14 00:25:51 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Daniel Moriarty, the university's chief information officer Evan] Unreal. The school was not even aware of the breach when it occurred of even shortly after it occurred Kyle Brown, president of the Graduate Student Council, said the university's delay in realizing the extent of the hacking was troubling to him No One Was Really Aware No...