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Spygate in Formula One racing Or: Dont forget your ancient floppy disks!

2008-03-27 16:16:37 by Thomas Raschke in Security & Risk Management
 
...disks. Yes, floppy disks - those early versions of portable media devices that never really made it into the new millennium Having recently had a chance to chat with a CISO from a European F1 team, I can assure you that data theft via traditional data loss channels like email, IM, and FTP, as well as endpoint activities like copying to USBs,...
 
Tags: floppy disks, formula, data theft, massive data theft, data theft channels, teams, profile formula, teams simply, indycar series
 
 
 
 
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Encrypting Disks

2008-07-04 13:10:18 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...disks are lost. You can mail them directly to your worst enemy and there's no problem. Well, assuming you've implemented the encryption properly and chosen a good key. This is much better than what the HM Revenue & Customs office did in November. I wrote about disk and laptop encryption previously
 
Tags: ambulance service, scottish ambulance service, disk, portable data disk, emdc, paisley emdc, laptop encryption previously, meaningful information, worst enemy
 
 
 
 
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Air travel revenue

2008-05-08 10:31:04 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...disks! Serrano's got the disks!" without airport security tackling you There is no question you could charge people to reenact Serrano's got the disks
 
Tags: sports book, reenact serrano, serrano, mccarran airport, black leather jacket, charge people, disks, mccarran, people
 
 
 
 
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A New Way to Back Up Digital Files on paper

2008-09-04 08:28:19 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...disks, streamer tapes, ZIP drives, network storages, magnetooptical cartridges, and even 8-inch double-sided floppy disks formatted for DEC PDP-11? (I still have some). The answer is simple: you dont. However, by looking on CD or magnetic tape, you are not able to tell whether your data is readable or not. You must insert your medium into the...
 
Tags: paper, code, source code, paper backups, real programmers dared, data, data density, real programmers, flash cards
 
 
 
 
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Massive data loss by key U.K. government agency could affect millions of British citizens

2007-11-26 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...disks containing the records of 7.25 million families and around 25 million people were lost by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs agency as they were being transferred to the UK's National Audit Office
 
Tags: breach, veterans administration breach, national audit office, million families, million veterans, million people, sensitive data, news reports, customs agency
 
 
 
 
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Building the Security "In" is the Way to Go

2007-03-25 00:00:00 by Chris Parkerson in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
Last week, Seagate Technology announced that it had begun shipping disk drives with built-in encryption technology for data stored on its disks. Such an implementation ends up transparent to the end user because it takes advantage of advances in encryption hardware to encrypt and decrypt information "on-the-fly" - which means that it is done...
 
Tags: built-in encryption technology, technology, disk, encryption hardware, decrypt information, takes advantage, encrypt, week, on-the-fly
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft: Thank You For Buying Pirated Vista

2007-07-24 22:21:34 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...disks as part of the process. Forensics using this information helped to find the pirates. So the blog also expresses gratitude to these users who are, as it says, victims of the piracy and helped to bring it down. Some of them will qualify for free genuine copies
 
Tags: windows, windows genuine advantage, copies, microsoft, blog entry, free genuine copies, blog, windows vista, counterfeit software
 
 
 
 
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OMG, This Is So 20th Century :-)

2007-12-11 23:32:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...disks, connections are pretty useful to criminals .... And, yes, so is their data Forward the SANS piece to all you non-computer / non-IT friends ... (sadly, some IT folks too About me: http://www.chuvakin.org
 
Tags: folks, sans folks debunk, non-it friends, non-computer, holy chao, sans piece, computer, sadly, connections
 
 
 
 
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Difference Between of Adware, Spyware and Anti-virus

2007-04-18 04:24:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...disks and look at other applications that you use including but not limited to chat programs, cookies and Web browser settings The spyware then will send the information that it had gathered to the spyware author. The agent will then use this information for advertising and marketing purposes. They even sell the information to advertisers...
 
Tags: virus, spyware, computer virus share, adware, anti-virus, computer, spyware author, computer system, system
 
 
 
 
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Advances in Endpoint Data Security

2008-02-19 06:23:04 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Source: Credant) New technology to meet security, operations, and compliance needs Security has evolved beyond merely encrypting "