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Download: H1 2008 Desktop OS Vendor Report - Vulnerabilities and Days-of-Risk

2008-10-27 07:00:00 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
 
...Days of Risk (DoR) associated with those vulnerabilities. The report further drills down to examine just those issues affecting the commonly installed desktop operating system components. The key findings for 1H08 The four vendors fixed a total 585 vulnerabilities in 1H08. 26.8% affected multiple vendors and of those, only 8 were fixed on the...
 
Tags: vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities fixed, report, windows vista customers, windows vista, fixed, days, windows, average days
 
 
 
 
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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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Tallying Twitters Application Security Best Practice Violations

2009-01-07 06:24:31 by Chris Eng in Zero in a bit
 
...days, youve probably read about the wave of attacks launched against the popular Twitter service. It started over the weekend, with a series of phishing attacks sent to unsuspecting Twittizens via Direct Message. Then, on Monday morning, Fox News announced Bill ORiley (sic) was gay, CNN anchor Rick Sanchez tweeted that he was high on crack,...
 
Tags: twitter, twitter account, twitter blog entry, twitter admins, twitter users, popular twitter service, twitter passwords, security, application security
 
 
 
 
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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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Secrets of a Road Warrior

2006-10-16 08:34:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...days in Montgomery, without a lick of food and only a single warm bottle of water I traded a man for a pillow Most of Montgomery was without power for 4 days. I was unlucky in that I had no supplies whatsoever, but lucky in that I was able to leave after waking up the third day to see that the roads had been cleared. The refugees who had to...
 
Tags: home, home tuesday night, head home, call home, road warrior, tuesday, road, night, home friday night
 
 
 
 
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Interop Las Vegas 2008 - Some Interesting Stats

2008-06-11 14:44:02 by Louis DiMeglio in ScienceLogic
 
...days looking at the data that EM7 collected on the network at Interop. A few of the statistics caught my eye and I spent some time talking to Geoff Horne, the Chief Architect of InteropNet about them. Here are the ones that we thought were most interesting 1) We ended up monitoring 205 nodes in the official show network. They broke down as...
 
Tags: network hit, hit, network, power, power distribution units, interop, power strips, interopnet, external wan links
 
 
 
 
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Security Between Virtual Machines?

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