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PCI Is "Made Easy" -> Hilarity Ensues

2008-04-24 09:10:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Easy The victim" of said lashing makes good fun of Mike R (especially read the comments, where an idea to rename the webcast into "PCI Compliance Made Easy, But Not Too Easy As To Avoid Becoming Linkbait For Mike Rothman" is floated Mike R responds by professing his love of "baloney" (and salami) and then pans with "No vendor can [make it...
 
Tags: easy, pci, mike rothman, mike, pci compliance, fun, security, post, humor
 
 
 
 
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XAMPP: an easy to install Apache daemon containing MySQL, PHP and Perl

2007-10-25 01:14:01 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
New Video: XAMPP: an easy to install Apache daemon containing MySQL, PHP and Perl By devil2005
 
Tags: install apache daemon, xampp, easy, php, perl, mysql, video, devil2005
 
 
 
 
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Supporting your family, friends, and neighbors

2008-02-13 17:45:40 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...easy-to-follow guidance for home users at our Security at Home site . This is an excellent resource, with information on how to protect your computer, yourself, and your family. However, we cant do it alonewe need your help! Maybe its already happened to many of you; if not, itll happen soon: youll become a security consultant for your FFN....
 
Tags: suspicious e-mail message, mail, home computers defense, home computers, e-mail, home, web mail, windows live mail, site
 
 
 
 
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Stolen General Internal Medicine laptop exposes nearly 12,000

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2008-05-05 12:17:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...easy to quantify. The price involved with lost confidence and visits is harder to nail down office workers on April 17 were taking paper records bearing basic patient information and scanning them into a laptop computer so the records could then be transferred to a disk Evan] Even in a small scale project it is important to evaluate risks...
 
Tags: internal medicine, office, doctors office, information, personal information, office staff, basic patient information, east hempfield township, physicians alliance office
 
 
 
 
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Lost laptop = Lost data!

2007-08-18 08:28:15 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...easy to lose luggage and it's just as easy to lose your laptop. If you're traveling by car, keep your laptop out of sight. For example, lock it in the trunk when you're not using it 4 Encrypt your data. If someone should get your laptop and gain access to your files, encryption can give you another layer of protection. With Windows XP and...
 
Tags: data, lost data, lost, lost laptop, laptop, laptop data aware, lost brand, aware, laptop security device
 
 
 
 
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Third Parties Controlling Information

2008-02-27 05:46:46 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...easy it was to get to. "The internet is my hard drive," I told newbies. It's even more true today; I don't think I could write without so much information so easily accessible. But it's a pretty damned unreliable hard drive The internet is my hard drive, but only if my needs are immediate and my requirements can be satisfied inexactly. It was...
 
Tags: regularly disappear, regularly, disappear, position papers disappear, web bulletin board, web, information, entire websites disappear, internet
 
 
 
 
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Logs: Parsing, Tokenizing or Extracting?

2008-03-11 01:54:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Easy - no human effort needed: just collect the logs and go Easy - no per-log effort on behalf of the log analyst (but some creative code needs to be written Hard - an expensive logging expert must first understand the logs and then write the rules; normalization across devices implies having a uniform data store for logs Cons Output is low...
 
Tags: logs, log analyst, log, convert logs, log management, diverse log sources, text logs, log analysis, bad logs
 
 
 
 
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Just let me do my job!

2007-11-29 09:04:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
...easy to get premises, phones, cars, etc . It is not easy to get staff who know what they are doing. That is where the real value of a business is So, essentially a business relies on its information to stay alive and to grow. If you lose information, a part of the business is lost Steve Ballmer knew this when he lost Mark Lukovsky to Google...
 
Tags: business, business relies, information security, information, modern business, entire business worth, information loss, information inside, people
 
 
 
 
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Crossing Borders with Laptops and PDAs

2008-05-16 06:10:33 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...easy to remember is easy to guess. (My advice is here .) Unfortunately, this isn't a perfect solution. Your computer might have left a copy of the password on the disk somewhere, and (as I also describe at the above link) smart forensic software will find it So your best defence is to clean up your laptop. A customs agent can't read what you...
 
Tags: customs agent pokes, customs agent, british customs agents, customs agents, agent, customs, entire hard drive, hard drive, data
 
 
 
 
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Civilians Ask Whats With All the Privacy Act Kerfluffle?

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2008-06-26 21:51:41 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO