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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
 
...floppy 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...
 
Tags: floppy disks, formula, data theft, massive data theft, data theft channels, teams, profile formula, teams simply, indycar series
 
 
 
 
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HP admits to selling infected flash-floppy drives

2008-04-07 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Hewlett-Packard has admitted to selling HP USB Floppy Drive Key drives that were pre-infected with malware
 
Tags: malware, hewlett-packard
 
 
 
 
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Who do you trust?

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2008-02-08 22:04:45 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...floppy disks? It was painful wasnt it? Worse than watching paint dry. You had to stare at a screen and wait for the next prompt to change the floppy disk. Then you would get to a question to enter some information that you didn't have a clue about and then have to rush to grab the manual Well, now with virtualization you or someone else can...
 
Tags: virtual disk image, image, virtual disk images, trust, images, internet, anti-virus software inside, server, linux server
 
 
 
 
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Disinfecting a virus-laden PC

2008-04-14 00:00:00 by HASH0x8472f5c in Network World on Security
 
When I insert a floppy into the A: drive and the floppy is used on another computer, that computer either then gets the virus or the anti-virus software on that computer reports that there is a virus trying to get access/control of the computer. How can I get rid of the virus
 
Tags: virus, computer reports, anti-virus software, computer, floppy, insert, rid, drive, accesscontrol
 
 
 
 
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Who do you trust?

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2008-02-08 22:04:45 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...floppy disks? It was painful wasnt it? Worse than watching paint dry. You had to stare at a screen and wait for the next prompt to change the floppy disk. Then you would get to a question to enter some information that you didn't have a clue about and then have to rush to grab the manual Well, now with virtualization you or someone else can...
 
Tags: virtual disk image, image, virtual disk images, trust, images, internet, anti-virus software inside, server, linux server
 
 
 
 
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Forgotten floppy disk leads to UK data breach

2007-12-31 08:00:00 by Editor in IT Compliance
 
Diskette with sensitive information about police staff members was found at a recycling center
 
Tags: sensitive information, police staff, diskette, center
 
 
 
 
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Cascade Healthcare Community donors affected by malware

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2008-03-07 14:02:22 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...floppy disk media. We do not know who did this and whether it was done intentionally or by accident. We have no guarantee we will ever find out who did this Evan] This is all too common. Understand that each and every connection we make from work to an Internet site is a potential (and at times successful) avenue of attack. We weigh the...
 
Tags: personal information vulnerable, personal information, cascade healthcare community, community, information, information assets, employee information, credit card information, credit card
 
 
 
 
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Are your digital devices Certified Pre-0wned?

2008-03-17 16:11:45 by Chris Wysopal in Zero in a bit
 
...floppy or sneaker net attack vector. Do you know who has touched your SD card or USB drive? Dont use it in public. Dont share it with multiple machines. Dan Geer told me he once tossed a USB drive into an audience with the slides for a presentation he just delivered on it. About 10 people passed it around and copied off the slides. It came...
 
Tags: devices, malware, low volume malware, drive, tech devices, usb drive, previously unknown malware, digital picture frame, inexpensive digital devices
 
 
 
 
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Cloud computing - I want my cake and eat it too

2008-06-08 22:20:19 by HASH0x8b5f69c in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...floppy discs was so empowering. But even than, problems accessing data on a disk or an application not behaving or security problems could render you just as frustrated on your non-networked device as an Amazon or twitter being down does now Ultimately I think these things go in cycles and we are entering a centralized cycle now. However, I...
 
Tags: cloud, net, net terminals, net access, cloud versus local, data, model, personal computer, applications
 
 
 
 
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Service Canada employee loses flash drive

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2008-06-28 23:18:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...floppy disk drives and USB ports on most computers Evan] Most "organisations" should, but unfortunately most do not Commentary I would like to think that this is an isolated incident at Service Canada, but I don't think that it actually is. I would like to see the Privacy Commissioner of Canada investigate and audit the security program and...
 
Tags: service canada, employee, service canada recently, canada, service canada employees, employee aware, practices, security practices, employee service canada