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Book Review: The Pragmatic CSO

2008-01-02 15:24:45 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...glad to see it in there Throughout the book Mike puts in statements like, use common sense, which I often think are missing from books like this. Hes absolutely right, of course. I think that thread echos throughout his book. Its not a technical book, its a book on changing your thinking to get you ahead of the assailant, in the good graces...
 
Tags: book, book mike, technical book, security community, security, security business, mike, mike rothman, mike rothmans
 
 
 
 
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Five stolen Florida Department of Children and Families laptops

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2008-01-04 10:12:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...glad to read that DCF conducts background checks on day care workers. I am all for that. Storing the applications on a laptop computer that is not physically or logically secure is terrible security practice Officials said they don't know how many day-care employees' records were on the stolen computers DCF wanted to have a complete list of...
 
Tags: agency, law enforcement agency, law, confidential information, information, confidential personal information, law enforcement led, laptops, sensitive personal information
 
 
 
 
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Lloyds TSB warning may panic some customers

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2008-01-05 00:47:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...glad to see someone (a customer) step up and demand answers. We all should I have asked to be informed about what this personal information was, and so far Lloyds TSB has been far from helpful and have never responded to my calls Commentary This reminds me of some tips I learned from seasoned information security professionals years ago. One...
 
Tags: lloyds, lloyds tsb customers, customers, lloyds tsb, lloyds tsb passwords, internet login details, internet, information, information security professionals
 
 
 
 
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More on Autorun

2007-10-30 22:12:27 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...glad Nick wrote about it, though Nick also includes a little hack that effectively disables all files named "autorun.inf." Interesting, but something in me prefers to make Windows just plain forget about all the drives it's seen. So now I will amend my instructions. In addition to what I wrote earlier, you should also write a small script,...
 
Tags: autorun, nick, glad nick, mountpoints2 registry key, registry, nick mentions, disable autorun, key, memory sitck worms
 
 
 
 
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Hard drive stolen from New Mexico State University was encrypted

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2008-01-07 09:50:57 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...glad to hear that the external hard drive was encrypted. Hopefully secure key (encryption/decryption) management practices were/are followed. I wonder if the employee's computer is also encrypted, and I wonder if the employee's computer was the "official" repository for this sensitive information as opposed to a central server Scott...
 
Tags: hard drive, external hard drive, information, personal information, employee information, computer hard drive, employee, employee hired, special events
 
 
 
 
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2504 Steps to Closing Your Facebook Account

2008-01-11 03:50:14 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Yes, it's true! I finally managed to close my Facebook account. It was a long, arduous road - the hardest part was slaying the Gorgon on level 16 - and I'm glad it's finally over
 
Tags: facebook account, arduous road, gorgon, level, close, glad, true
 
 
 
 
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WakeMed Emergency Department laptop goes missing

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2008-01-31 01:32:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...glad to hear that Wake County will be encrypting these laptops now. It's too bad it took a loss before they got the hint Past Breaches Unknown
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, information, medical information, download diagnostic information, emergency department, county ambulances, ambulances, laptop, county
 
 
 
 
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NAP case study published

2008-02-01 11:50:25 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...Glad to see they chose to use IPsec-based enforcement, it's my favorite
 
Tags: network, network access protection, nap, fulton county serves, faced network disruptions, county, help-desk call volume, infrastructure includes mainframes, multiple topologies
 
 
 
 
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Stolen Salt Lake Community College laptop

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2008-02-28 15:12:17 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...glad that I do not have any of my personal information under the custodianship of SLCC. Organizations that collect and store confidential information need to design appropriate controls around the security of such information. Judging from the (very) limited information I have about SLCC's information security practices, they have much room...
 
Tags: information, personal information, information security practices, store confidential information, confidential information, financial aid information, evan, evan social security, sensitive authentication information
 
 
 
 
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Laptop bought on eBay contained "highly confidential" Home Office disk

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2008-02-28 16:10:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...glad it's turned up here rather than landing in the wrong hands I don't know where the disc has come from. I have never seen a disc stored in this way before Commentary This is very interesting and mysterious. How did the disk get there, who put it there, and for what purpose? I wonder if the disk was put under the laptop keyboard in order...
 
Tags: home office, disk, laptop, source home office, home office spokesman, director lee bevan, lee bevan, highly confidential, leapfrog computers