Researcher reveals Twitter 'follow' bug
Attackers can exploit a bug in Twitter to force victims to follow the hacker's account, a security researcher said Thursday
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Let's Not Let the Security Staff Become the SocGen Scapegoat
2008-02-25 17:47:53 by Posted By: Jay Heiser, Research VP in IT Leaders - Security and Risk Management
A growing number of commentators are pointing the finger at the Societe Generale security function as being at fault in allowing "rogue" trader Jerome Kerviel to eventually bring the bank to its knees. Security product vendors are taking the opportunity to position their technology as being solutions that could have prevented this failure
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Vista SP1 Goes To Manufacturing
Microsoft announced today, through the Windows Vista blog, that they have released Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista to manufacturing . Users will not be able to download SP1 until mid-March, as the company is trying to make it available about the time that new systems with SP1 will be available in stores. This is the same time frame in which it...
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SDL and Web 2.0
Hi everyone, Bryan Sullivan here
Unless youve been living in an ice cave on the polar cap for the last month, youve heard about Microsofts proposed acquisition of Yahoo. George Hulme of InformationWeek wrote a very insightful column about the proposed acquisition and what it would mean for Yahoos Web 2.0 properties. My favorite quote from this...
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Vista SP1 Goes to Manufacturing
Microsoft announced today, through the Windows Vista blog, that it has released Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista to manufacturing . Users will not be able to download SP1 until mid-March, as the company is trying to make it available about the time that new systems with SP1 will be available in stores. This is the same time frame in which it...
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Most switches help in complying with secure management best practices
In assessing switch management and security, we sought to answer three questions: Did devices follow current best practices by default? Could users configure switches to follow these best practices? And could switches be wiped clean of any sensitive information before being taken out of deployment
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People and Security Rules
In this article analyzing a security failure resulting in live nuclear warheads being flown over the U.S., there's an interesting commentary on people and security rules: Indeed, the gaff [sic] that allowed six nukes out over three major American cities (Omaha, Neb., Kansas City, Mo., and Little Rock, Ark.) could have been avoided if the Air...
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Are fund managers really overcompensated?
CFA Magazine recently published an interview with Barton Biggs in its July-August 2006 Issue. Mr. Biggs has been with Morgan Stanley for 30 years acting as chief global strategist and is well respected by Wall Street. In 2003, He retired from Morgan Stanley to form Traxis Partners (hedge fund) with colleagues. In the interview, the following...
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Botnets, Fastflux and DDoS in D.C.
This Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 27 and 28 at the AED conference center in Washington, D.C. the third Internet Security Operations and Intelligence workshop will be held. The participant list, as security events go, is star-studded. If you follow popular security lists and blogs you'll recognize a lot of names, such as Johannes Ullrich from the...
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