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What are Microsoft Thinking?!

2007-08-30 07:06:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
...faulty. In South Africa local calls are charged for so it could get quite pricey to patch my machine not to mention the amount of time that my phone at home would be engaged That is for my one PC... if I had others the time to download and patch would be longer Enter the amazing AutoPatch software. All the Microsoft Patch Happiness you can...
 
Tags: microsoft, microsoft patches, patches, microsoft cdpatcher, microsoft patch happiness, patch, patch tuesday, patch patch patch, security
 
 
 
 
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State worker's child porn charges dropped; faulty laptop security blamed

2008-06-16 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Prosecutors in Massachusetts have dropped child pornography charges against a state employee after an investigation showed that his laptop PC had weak security controls and was riddled with malware
 
Tags: child pornography charges, weak security controls, laptop, malware, employee, massachusetts, prosecutors, investigation
 
 
 
 
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Hardware flaw caused shipping mess, says Netflix

2008-08-25 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Netflix has identified the culprit of its days-long technical outage this month as a faulty hardware component
 
Tags: days-long technical outage, faulty hardware component, netflix, culprit, month
 
 
 
 
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My LA Times Op Ed on Photo ID Checks at Airport

2008-09-01 05:15:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...faulty notion that the feds have this master list of terrorists, and all we have to do is keep the people on the list off the planes That's just not true. The no-fly list -- a list of people so dangerous they are not allowed to fly yet so innocent we can't arrest them -- and the less dangerous "watch list" contain a combined 1 million names...
 
Tags: list, no-fly list, airport, security, security hole, transportation security administration, photo, ids, matches ids
 
 
 
 
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A Cryptographer and a Data Communications Guy Talk About Risk Management

2008-10-16 15:32:16 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...faulty premise that if we create a repeatable process, our measurements and conclusions will magically become accurate and wise. Risk models tend to be factors loosely measured by ordinal scales and then somehow multiplied together to create a relatively meaningless qualitative value. The State of the Union here is not good. But after reading...
 
Tags: risk management, management, risk, engineer risk management, methodologies, risk assessment methodologies, risk models, risk analysts, models
 
 
 
 
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Address Spoofing Flaw Allows Googles Chrome Websites Impersonation

2008-10-26 22:04:47 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
A new vulnerability has been found in Googles Chrome browser that allows attackers to impersonate websites of groups like the Better Business Bureau, PayPal and even Google. Researcher Liu Die Yu of the TopsecTianRongXin research lab in Beijing says the spoofing vulnerability is the result of faulty code inserted by programmers from the Mountain...
 
Tags: googles chrome browser, researcher liu die, mountain view, faulty code, websites, business bureau, vulnerability, research lab, google
 
 
 
 
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CLOUD COMPUTING - STORMY WEATHER?

2008-10-27 15:46:17 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...faulty assumptions JUST HOW INFORMATIVE IS PCI DSS What might be the.greatest.mistake of the standards compliance mentality is the assumption of value for the past-state measurement. That is, I believe that the CSO needs more than some past-state assurance in order to understand their risk. If you look at the concept of PCI compliance it...
 
Tags: risk management innovation, management, cloud, risk, glba risk, glba, reduce risk, risk reduction, toxic cloud
 
 
 
 
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Lenovo Introduces Protection and Data Recovery Services

2008-11-14 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b0716c in Network World on Security
 
Lenovo Friday introduced two new service offerings -- PC protection service that insures Lenovo notebooks from accidental damage and Data Recovery Service that rescues users' data from a faulty hard disk
 
Tags: data, data recovery service, faulty hard disk, insures lenovo notebooks, lenovo friday, service offerings, rescues users, protection service, accidental damage
 
 
 
 
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Buying Fake Nintendo Consoles Helps Terrorists

2008-12-16 10:47:42 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...faulty counterfeit consoles could be unsafe You might find you plug it in and the adaptor sets on fire or the wires start to melt and stick out," she warned When you buy these goods, you're not funding our economy, you're actually funding criminals in these far off places and it could be linked to terrorism," she added Why be rational, when...
 
Tags: faulty counterfeit consoles, adaptor sets, wires start, stoke fear, stick, bbc, rational, terrorism, economy
 
 
 
 
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Moving Towards A Mature Security Organization Using A Measured Approach to Risk Management