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Stolen Salesforce.com unencrypted external storage device

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2008-02-12 13:32:40 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 2/7/08 Organization Salesforce.com Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Current and former Salesforce.com employees Number Affected Unknown Approximately 6 employees affected reside in New Hampshire." Salesforce.com is headquartered in San Francisco, California Types of Data Names, Social...
 
Tags: external storage device, storage device, sensitive personal information, personal information, device, personal information includes, information, salesforce, data
 
 
 
 
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Bringing Order and Security to your Mobile Workforce: Corporate Mobility Policy and Device Management

2008-04-09 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Source: Nokia) LIVE WEBCAST In many businesses, mobile devices are managed the way that laptops were managed ten years ago - as a kind of "wild west." Today, mobility is no longer just about providing executives with mobile email. A growing number of employees are "mobile workers," with specialized mobile device and data access requirements. So...
 
Tags: mobility, mobility policy, effective mobility policy, mobile device, mobile device proliferation, mobile device management, data access requirements, data, gain control
 
 
 
 
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Heart device hack a shocker

2008-03-12 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
It didn't take much to hack into the heart monitoring device and get it to administer a 137-volt shock: an oscilloscope, a PC, a wireless radio with a couple of antennas and some free software
 
Tags: heart, 137-volt shock, device, wireless radio, free software, hack, oscilloscope, couple, antennas
 
 
 
 
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Sybase iAnywhere bolsters mobile device security

2008-07-02 00:00:00 by John Cox in Network World on Security
 
Sybase iAnywhere is beefing up its Afaria mobile-device management software by adding antivirus and firewalling capabilities
 
Tags: sybase ianywhere, capabilities, antivirus
 
 
 
 
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Cisco 7600 OSR Backbone Router

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2008-09-06 11:25:02 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
For our confused CEO blogger over at StreamBase, who thinks an Internetbackbone router is the small $30 device he set up in his home office, here is a photo of a the Cisco 7600 OSR which of course runs CISCO IOS The Cisco 7600 OSR consists of a 256 Gbps switching fabric and a 30 million packets per second (mpps) forwarding engine. Its breadth...
 
Tags: cisco, cisco flexwan module, osr, runs cisco ios, base cisco, cisco ios, services, destination sensitive services, osr system
 
 
 
 
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BJs Wholesale Club's noble intentions

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2008-02-10 23:07:10 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 1/15/08 Organization BJs Wholesale Club Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Participants in the BJs tuition reimbursement program Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Names and Social Security numbers Breach Description A mobile device used by a BJs employee containing sensitive...
 
Tags: breach description, breach, bjs wholesale club, security breach, wholesale club, sensitive personal information, personal information, security, security practices
 
 
 
 
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Hacking Medical Devices

2008-03-12 10:39:59 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Okay, so this could be big news: But a team of computer security researchers plans to report Wednesday that it had been able to gain wireless access to a combination heart defibrillator and pacemaker They were able to reprogram it to shut down and to deliver jolts of electricity that would potentially be fatal -- if the device had been in a...
 
Tags: devices, security, malicious security attack, cardiac, security risks, dangerous cardiac events, risks, icd incapable, icd
 
 
 
 
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Security Needs in Embedded Systems

2008-05-07 00:00:00 by Editor in Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers
 
The paper discusses the hardware and software security requirements in an embedded device that are involved in the transfer of secure digital data. The paper gives an overview on the security processes like encryption/decryption, key agreement, digital signatures and digital certificates that are used to achieve data protection during data...
 
Tags: security, proprietary security technology, security measures, security processes, security requirements, discusses, paper discusses, software security requirements, digital signatures
 
 
 
 
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Israel Implementing IFF System for Commercial Aircraft

2008-03-10 12:24:29 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Israel is implementing an IFF (identification, friend or foe) system for commercial aircraft, designed to differentiate legitimate planes from terrorist-controlled planes The news article implies that it's a basic challenge-and-response system. Ground control issues some kind of alphanumeric challenge to the plane. The pilot types the challenge...
 
Tags: commercial aircraft, system, hand-held computer device, device, pin, special distress pin, ground control issues, challenge, news article implies
 
 
 
 
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What do the Cold Boot Crypto Attack, DVD Players, and MiFare tell us about the Future of Biometrics?

2008-03-26 00:16:43 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
 
Last week Slashdot pointed me to an interesting article in The Standard Understanding anonymity and the need for biometrics In fact, I found the article to be rather upsetting. Not because of the articles thesis that strong authentication through a national ID program would not necessarily pose a threat to privacy; but rather, because of their...
 
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