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42 Days In A Hole?

2008-06-12 13:58:15 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...days. This has triggered a firestorm From BBC Shadow home secretary David Davis has resigned as an MP He is to force a by-election in his Haltemprice and Howden constituency which he will fight on the issue of the new 42-day terror detention limit Mr Davis told reporters outside the House of Commons he believed his move was a noble endeavour...
 
Tags: move, british civil liberties, extraordinary move, bush white houses, fundamental british freedoms, recreational horticulture, news consumption, article link, detention limit
 
 
 
 
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A Note Of Caution....

2008-07-23 12:45:25 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
 
...days, we've discovered a program that attempts to get around certain privacy related features on Myspace groups (which are effectively mini-forums run by Myspace users). Note that the program doesn't attempt to do anything to individual end-users like infect their PC - and as long as you're not posting up personal / private information to...
 
Tags: additional information, myspace users, myspace, information, post sensitive information, nefarious individuals, mass stampede, third-party website, program
 
 
 
 
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S.F. Admin Coughs Up Passcodes to Mayor

2008-07-23 14:30:00 by David Kravets in Wired Security
 
San Francisco regains control of its network after the city admin who hijacked the system nine days ago turns over the stolen passwords to Mayor Gavin Newsom in a secret jailhouse meeting
 
Tags: mayor gavin newsom, days ago, city admin, secret jailhouse, passwords, network, system
 
 
 
 
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For your hacking pleasure - Cold Boot utilities released!

2008-07-23 13:32:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
Interesting news over the weekend. Looks like one of the original researchers from the Princeton Cold Boot attack work, Jacob Applebaum, published all the utilities they used to break full disk encryption products We, at BitArmor, have talked a bit about cold boot and how we protect against it. Our CEO Patrick and a few of our senior engineers...
 
Tags: cold boot, disk encryption products, ceo patrick, original researchers, utilities, jacob applebaum, senior engineers, princeton days, black hat
 
 
 
 
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Security Matters: Lesson From the DNS Bug: Patching Isn't Enough

2008-07-23 19:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...days ago. So now everyone who back-burnered the problem is rushing to patch, while the hacker community is racing to produce working exploits What's the moral here? It's easy to condemn Kaminsky: If he had shut up about the problem, we wouldn't be in this mess. But that's just wrong. Kaminsky found the vulnerability by accident. There's no...
 
Tags: security, security engineer, security engineer brings, security holes, smart design choice, design, security engineers, kaminsky, dan kaminsky
 
 
 
 
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Why you nearly need a P.I. to help you hire a private investigator

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2008-03-01 20:28:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
...days you can have a website up and running in days for a couple hundred dollars A company who does not have a website, for the most part, is a company who is either not legal and must fly under the radar, or who is not making enough money to spend on one. If you hire a) an illegal company, you yourself could wind up being sued and if you...
 
Tags: local, professional associations local, local security company, company, illegal company, choose company, exspensive company, guards company, security company
 
 
 
 
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Five stolen Florida Department of Children and Families laptops

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2008-01-04 10:12:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...days by law to notify those whose records were stolen. - DCF spokeswoman Carrie Hoeppner Evan] 45 days from November 8th is December 23rd, but there is also a provision in the law that states "Notification may be delayed if a law enforcement agency determines that the notification will impede a criminal investigation." Maybe law enforcement...
 
Tags: agency, law enforcement agency, law, confidential information, information, confidential personal information, law enforcement led, laptops, sensitive personal information
 
 
 
 
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Password policies. Once again.

2007-09-04 22:14:00 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...days is a reasonable default; our own corpnet uses 70 days. My experience with most customers shows that password sharing isn't a problem. So for those who do enforce long simple passphrases, I suggest that a reasonable default for expiration is 120 days Windows begins notifying you 14 days before your password expires. You can change this...
 
Tags: account, enable account lockout, password, account lockouts, disable account lockout, 42-day default expiration, default, expiration, password expires
 
 
 
 
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How to protect your company and employees from workplace violence

2008-02-25 00:03:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...days of easy access to personal information, it may be necessary to have a personal protection specialist placed at the managers residence for a few days. We have handled cases where we have had to place four or five agents at several managers residences on a 24 hour basis for several days When it comes to hiring personal protection...
 
Tags: workplace, workplace violence, safe workplace, workplace violence start, violence, violence includes threats, violence incident, employees, threats
 
 
 
 
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