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Church killer stopped by private security officer

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2007-12-10 23:00:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
...deadly church shootings in Colorado Springs, Colorado, ended when a brave security officer used her concealed weapon to prevent the killer from taking any more lives Reports state that the security officer was one of three security officers working at the New Life Church service on Sunday where more than 7,000 people attended. She was the...
 
Tags: officer, security officer, armed officer, law enforcement officer, security, church, brave security officer, security team, security officers
 
 
 
 
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Cold Boot Attacks Against Disk Encryption

2008-02-21 13:29:18 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...deadly for disk encryption products because they rely on keeping master decryption keys in DRAM. This was thought to be safe because the operating system would keep any malicious programs from accessing the keys in memory, and there was no way to get rid of the operating system without cutting power to the machine, which everybody knew would...
 
Tags: main memory chips, memory, todays dram memories, dram, dram contents, memory contents, disk encryption, hard, hard disk contents
 
 
 
 
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Maslow's heirarchy of security posture?

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2007-07-08 17:22:32 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
...deadly sins of Website Vulnerability Disclosure according to Jeremiah. Nice blog post Jeremiah I see a Maslow's heirarchy in the evolution of security posture of a company. Each posture is determined by the line of business [type of industry] and the size of business [start-up or mid-size or large publicly traded 1. Don't Care for Security -...
 
Tags: security posture, basic security posture, security, basic security, security practices, handle security incidents, security exists, security components, security program
 
 
 
 
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What is Safe Enough?

2007-08-03 11:28:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...deadly complications to new drugs are often extremely rare and don't emerge until millions of people have taken the drug The FDA must weigh many factors when it comes to deciding whether to keep a drug on the market. Do the benefits outweigh the risks? Do other drugs on the market treat the disease with fewer side effects? As reporter...
 
Tags: drug, fda drug standards, safe, fda, measure safe, drug safety, fda panel, fda advisory panel, market
 
 
 
 
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Obstacles For Information Security & Risk Management

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2008-03-06 13:51:34 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
...deadly diseases, he has 4 Lesser Category of Obstacles that organizations must overcome if they are going to reach a decent solution to the problems they face. However, whereas Deming wrote these for individual businesses, I think of these in context of our general industry. My comments are generalizations, to be sure, but I think these...
 
Tags: risk, lesser category, demings lesser category, obstacles, operational risk, data, consumer data, industry, prescriptive isms
 
 
 
 
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Teen bomb maker stopped in his tracks in South Carolina.

2008-04-25 02:58:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...deadly bombs Ryan Schallenberger had used E-Bay to order 20lbs of ammonium nitrate from a supplier in Kentucky. The teen has been described as being "mad at the whole world". In a search of the family home, Law Enforcement officers discovered hate filled writings in which he praised the Columbine killers Having just returned from a Threat...
 
Tags: family home, home, law enforcement officers, schools, threat assessment workshop, schools safe, alert guidance counsellors, security precautions, copy cat
 
 
 
 
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Traffic stats and the top 10 blogs

2008-04-30 05:00:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...deadly sins of Information Security management ( 31 October 2007 ) 4. Portable wireless hacking device ( 9 Feb 2007 ) 5. HSBC new two-factor authentication system ( 7 September 2007 ) 6. Data Protection Act - What's the Damage? ( 20 September 2007 ) 7. RFID Passports ( 6 Jan 2008 ) 8. Incident definition and response ( 11 January 2007 ) 9....
 
Tags: security, information security management, blog entries, blog, entries, information security strategy, data protection act, march, readers
 
 
 
 
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Web scam suicide

2008-05-02 16:19:57 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...deadly serious side because many of the scams appear to be very plausible on first read, people do fall victim, and lives do get ruined as a result. No better example than that reported by the BBC today. Read the full, tragic story here of how a university student killed herself after giving "more than 6,000 in the belief she had won half a...
 
Tags: scams, spam based scams, lottery, fake lottery wins, spam, security awareness messages, circumstances, remain vigilant, university student
 
 
 
 
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Deadly Attack on U.S. Consulate in Turkey

2008-07-12 20:37:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
Once again, we sadly report on a terrorist attack aimed at destroying American lives. Fortunately, no Americans were hurt, but our thoughts go out to the families of the three Turkish Policemen killed while protecting the U.S. Consulate It was obviously an anti-American terrorist attack. The Consulate is said to be one of the most secure...
 
Tags: attack, anti-american terrorist attack, terrorist attack aimed, favourite tourist destination, days, days howver, turkey, holiday savings, visitors
 
 
 
 
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What do High School Killers and Terrorists Have in Common?

2008-07-20 20:37:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog