SEARCH RESULTS
 
Showing 1-10 of 394 records
 
Expand article

File containing Interbank FX customer information exposed for almost a year

The Article has images
2008-04-15 23:57:04 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...file to an insecure server that was accessible via the Internet. The file contained personal information belonging to certain persons who applied for an Interbank FX account prior to April, 2007. Interbank FX became aware of the exposure on March 28th, 2008 Reference URL The New Hampshire State Attorney General breach notification Report...
 
Tags: information, sensitive personal information, personal information, application information, handle sensitive information, information security, interbank, file, confidential information
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Confidential Texas A & M personnel file exposed on the Internet

The Article has images
2008-02-18 23:51:43 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...file containing sensitive personal information belonging to current and former employees of three Texas A&M organizations was inadvertently uploaded to a server that was publicly accessible over the Internet. The file was available on the server for up to three weeks before it was detected during a routine examination Reference URL The...
 
Tags: texas, sensitive personal information, personal information, texas agrilife extension, file, texas agrilife research, information, texas cooperative extension, confidential information
 
 
 
 
Expand article

TrueCrypt's Deniable File System

2008-07-18 06:56:02 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...File System (DFS), and the efficacy with which the TrueCrypt disk-encryption software meets those requirements. We find that the Windows Vista operating system itself, Microsoft Word, and Google Desktop all compromise the deniability of a TrueCrypt DFS. While staged in the context of TrueCrypt, our research highlights several fundamental...
 
Tags: truecrypt, deniable file system, file system, truecrypt version, system, truecrypt dfs, deniable, truecrypt disk-encryption software, systems
 
 
 
 
Expand article

File Integrity Monitoring: Secure Your Virtual and Physical IT Environments

2008-08-25 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
...File Integrity Monitoring Solution? With the numerous servers, devices and applications organizations rely on to support their everyday business, outages and security breaches due to poor IT configurations are unacceptable. In addition, many organizations must now prove compliance with standards like PCI DSS designed to protect systems and...
 
Tags: file integrity, applications organizations rely, organizations, enables organizations, security breaches due, solution, undesirable configuration change, maintain compliance, numerous servers
 
 
 
 
Expand article

File Systems and thumb drives: Choosing between FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS to get a faster USB Flash Drive

2007-10-06 21:22:58 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
File Systems and thumb drives: Choosing between FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS to get a faster USB Flash Drive What file system should you choose to speed up your thumb drive? Read on
 
Tags: thumb, file systems, thumb drive, ntfs, fat32, fat16, file system, choose, speed
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Best Security Tools: Virus Total file analyzer

2008-05-26 14:22:07 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
...file of malicious intent? Maybe a file appears on an end-user device or server, you have no idea what it is, your AV software ignores it, but you have a gut feeling that something isn't quite right? Or maybe you have a user who wants to install a program you've never heard of, and you just want to check it to see if anyone out in cyberspace...
 
Tags: file, user, end-user device, file appears, bad idea, idea, free online tool, malicious intent, software ignores
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Social Security Administration lists live people in the Death Master File

The Article has images
2008-07-07 08:44:12 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...File (DMF) while they were still alive Reference URL FederalComputerWeek Report Credit Michael Hardy, FederalComputerWeek Response From the online source cited above The Social Security Administration inadvertently compromised the personal information of more than 20,000 people by listing them in the Death Master File (DMF) while they...
 
Tags: information, secure information, social security, social security administration, personal information, information online, dmf information, death master file, ssa
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Setting file ACLs with PowerShell part 5

2008-01-09 04:53:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
...FileSystemAccessRule "keith", Modify, Allow modified = $false dacl.ModifyAccessRule("Add", $newRule, [ref]$modified dir foo.txt).SetAccessControl($dacl All I've got left to explain is the last line of code. It's important to note that when you're tweaking ACLs, there are basically three steps you have to take Read the ACL from an object...
 
Tags: object, new-object security, dir foo, txt, series, code, acl, dacl, newrule
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Harvard Web site hacked, database on file-sharing site

2008-02-18 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473724 in Network World on Security
 
One of Harvard University's Web sites appeared on Monday to have been hacked, with its contents appearing on the BitTorrent file-sharing network
 
Tags: harvard university, web sites, network, bittorrent, contents, monday