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Geeks.com customer credit card data compromised

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2008-01-07 21:34:58 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Geeks.com - Genica Corporation Geeks.com is a $150 million company specializing in the sale of computer-related excess inventory and manufacturer's closeouts Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Geeks.com customers Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, credit card numbers,...
 
Tags: credit, credit card, card, geeks, credit reports, report credit, breach description, breach, apparent breach
 
 
 
 
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Innovative spam subject lines

2007-08-19 23:16:14 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...geeks out there: what's a conditional iterative array UPDATED: A couple more. I'll keep adding here for the next few days, for your humorous edification
 
Tags: spam, identifiable spam, conditional iterative array, iterative, junk email folder, microsoft sweepstakes scams, sentence structure, river, humorous edification
 
 
 
 
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The Daily Incite - January 9, 2008

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2008-01-09 05:45:46 by Mike Rothman in Mike Rothman's blog
...Geeks.com . But isn't that certification indicative that the site is actually "Hacker Safe?" Yeah right. Nothing is safe from a determined and talented bad guy. And I've always thought these web site testing services set the wrong expectation for customers. And McAfee laid down a cool 50 big (that's $50 million for those not familiar with...
 
Tags: security, security role, information security, security folks, top security news, news, security risk management, security technology, customer
 
 
 
 
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'Halting State' a good read for security geeks

2008-01-24 00:00:00 by M. E. Kabay in Network World on Security
 
I have just finished reading a novel called 'Halting State,' by Charles Stross, that strikes me as a significant event for security specialists in the development of today's science fiction. Much as William Gibson's Neuromancer is credited with popularizing the notion of cyberspace in establishing the cyberpunk style, I think Halting State may...
 
Tags: security specialists, information security specialists, speaks directly, william gibson, charles stross, cyberpunk style, significant event, science fiction, cyberspace
 
 
 
 
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Geeks sharing recipes

2008-01-29 09:17:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
So I'm a divorced father who cares for his three sons 50% of the time. It's a challenging but tremendously fun task. Since the separation, I've been spending much more time with my kids than I ever did before, and I'm loving it. But I'm still a geek at heart, and I hate doing clerk-like work to figure out what to buy at the grocery store. I'd...
 
Tags: acceptable data model, xml, data model, recipebook xml, xml schema recipe, recipes, data, recipe, xml format
 
 
 
 
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What those oceanic cable cuts mean to you

2008-02-07 00:00:00 by Johna Till Johnson in Network World on Security
 
...geeks, the really big news recently was the cable outages in the Mediterranean, which disrupted Internet connections to Europe and the Middle East. The outages have raised a host of questions about the vulnerability of the Internet and the action plans enterprises should have in place to protect themselves from the consequences. Here are some...
 
Tags: internet connections, cable outages, outages, internet, action plans enterprises, network geeks, super bowl, middle east, presidential primaries
 
 
 
 
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GCHQing with the Honeynet Project

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2008-02-11 17:33:59 by HASH0x8bfdee8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...geeks, a windy trip to Stonehenge along the way and lots of drinks, it's becoming increasingly clear to me how important face-to-face conversations are for the sake of improving productivity and relationship building. It's also worth pointing out how issues such as dealing with information oveload, data sharing, and actually communicating all...
 
Tags: honeynet project, government communications headquarters, windy trip, face-to-face conversations, information oveload, data, stay tuned, impossible, strategic level
 
 
 
 
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A Barn Door Has No ROI

2008-02-16 04:49:17 by Scott in Scott Wright's Security Views
 
When you think about it, farmers know where their assets are better than a lot of us in business. Usually, theyre in the barn. A security geeks interpretation of the term closing the barn door after the horses have bolted, would probably be something like its too late to take preventative action after the incident
 
Tags: barn, barn door, security geeks interpretation, preventative action, lot, incident, term, farmers, assets
 
 
 
 
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Evaluating And Protecting Yourself From The Cold-Boot Encryption Attack

2008-02-25 19:47:24 by rmogull in securosis.com
 
...geeks) loses power and anything stored is lost. Thus we would password protect our encrypted systems so that even if they wake up from sleep mode, an attacker would have to reboot the system unless they had the key, confident this process would erase the key from memory and keep the data secure What the Princeton researchers demonstrated is...
 
Tags: disk, full-disk encryption, encryption, disk encryption, systems, file encryption systems, encryption system, file encryption, tools
 
 
 
 
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Third Parties Controlling Information

2008-02-27 05:46:46 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...geeks. It's been active since 2000, and its database of back posts and comments is a wealth of information: tasting notes, restaurant recommendations, stories and so on. Late last year someone hacked the board software, got administrative privileges and deleted the database. There was no backup Of course the board's owner should have been...