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Combating Unrestricted Warfare

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2007-12-15 09:08:23 by HASH0x8472308 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...employs surprise and deception and uses both civilian technology and military weapons to break the opponents will Moreover, the 2007 edition is covering in-depth such popular asymmetric threats posed by jihadists (pages 135/143) debunking the use of WMD as a priority, and the cyber dimension (pages 251/297) with some remarkable analogies...
 
Tags: chinese information warfare, information, information warfare, warfare, cyber warfare unit, cyber warfare, asymmetric warfare, unconventional warfare, warfare employs surprise
 
 
 
 
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Five-year-old wanders into bank branch after-hours

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2008-02-06 10:24:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...employs centralized and secure data storage, meaning that there should be no sensitive information on the client computers. This may be true, but often there is much more information on these computers than people realize. I would guess that there is also a substantial amount of sensitive paperwork in the branch The Pettigrews stood guard at...
 
Tags: bank, customers, bank customers, bank after-hours, branch, door malfunction, bank doors, malfunction, breach description
 
 
 
 
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Who Are the Information Security Experts?

2008-02-13 19:12:03 by Chris Wysopal in Zero in a bit
 
...employs 9 out of the top 11 security people due to HPs acquisition of SPI Dynamics Nine out of the worlds top 11 security hackers came to HP through the SPI Dynamics acquisition, he boasts, although its not immediately clear who ranked those top 11 Mark Potts, CTO of Software, Hewlett-Packard Now eWeek has produced a list of the 15 most...
 
Tags: security, security hackers, computer security specialists, security people due, spi dynamics, spi dynamics acquisition, people, google security team, dino dai zovi
 
 
 
 
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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
...employs this model Here are some facts around these postures 1. At the top of the pyramid is posture #5, there is no short-cut to it 2. There is a cost involved in transitioning from lower posture to the next higher posture 3. The cost of transitioning increases exponentially as as you advance through the postures 4. When #5 is attained...
 
Tags: security posture, basic security posture, security, basic security, security practices, handle security incidents, security exists, security components, security program
 
 
 
 
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Lost Bank of Ireland laptops affect roughly 10,000 customers

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2008-04-22 09:35:39 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...employs ~5,000 laptop computers and encourages a mobile workforce. Do you think that there is a good (more than 50/50) chance that some of the laptops may be used to work with highly confidential information? Do you think there is a good chance that one of these laptops may be lost or stolen? Obviously the answer to both questions is "yes"....
 
Tags: bank, customers, information security, information, ireland, confidential information, ireland life option, ireland life, bank account details
 
 
 
 
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Former Verizon Wireless employee charged with identity theft

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2008-04-27 09:43:33 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...employs roughly 69,000 people and an estimated 65.7 million customers, so you can imagine the amount of sensitive personal information that they must control Although we do not have evidence that our former employee succeeded in stealing your identity, it is possible that this occurred given the nature of his offense We sincerely apologize...
 
Tags: verizon wireless, verizon, verizon wireless customers, employee, identity, identity theft, theft, sensitive personal information, social security
 
 
 
 
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Laptop stolen from Sodexo employee's car

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2008-05-22 12:39:42 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...employs 342,000 people worldwide. That a lot of people. This breach only affected a subset of employees, but imagine how big a problem there is if storing confidential information on an unencrypted laptop is an acceptable practice We are sending letters today to these employees to notify them of the theft of a Sodexo-owned laptop computer...
 
Tags: information, personal employee information, breach description, breach, security breach, personal information, personal financial information, sodexo, confidential information
 
 
 
 
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1st Source Bank reissues all debit cards in response to breach

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2008-06-05 09:09:56 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...employs a managed security services provider for intrusion detection monitoring and alerting (and possibly more). Using a third-party provider as a part of information security strategy is probably a good idea for organizations that do not have, cannot afford, or do not want to build in-house expertise. Managing third-party service agreements...
 
Tags: 1st source, bank, 1st source bank, evan 1st source, server, bank server, bank officials, breach, bank employs
 
 
 
 
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Stolen laptop affects thousands of current and former Stanford employees

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2008-06-08 23:12:08 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...employs laptops and other mobile devices, it is only a matter of time that one (or more) will be lost or stolen. It is a fact of life, and it really doesn't matter how aware the users are. We either need to make sure that confidential information does not get stored on mobile devices, encrypt them (with secure key management) or preferably...
 
Tags: stanford, university laptop, university, stanford university, stanford email address, information, personal information, information security practice, stanford employee
 
 
 
 
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Groups: Ad firm used by ISPs spies on users

2008-06-18 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
A targeted advertising vendor being used by several U.S. broadband providers hijacks browsers, spies on users and employs man-in-the-middle attacks, according to a report released Wednesday by two advocacy groups
 
Tags: users, spies, attacks