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Group defines cyberattack prevention rules for nation's power grid

2008-01-17 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington, D.C., today approved eight Critical Infrastructure Protection standards for the physical- and cybersecurity of the electric-power grid, in spite of concerns from industry about the expense of replacing older equipment that can't be patched
 
Tags: electric-power grid, expense, industry, washington, physical-, cybersecurity, concerns, equipment, spite
 
 
 
 
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Experts hack power grid in no time

2008-04-09 00:00:00 by Tim Greene in Network World on Security
 
Cracking a power company network and gaining access to supervisory, control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems that could shut down the grid is simple, security expert and penetration-testing consultant Ira Winkler told an RSA audience, and he has done so in less than a day
 
Tags: consultant ira winkler, power company network, grid, data acquisition, rsa audience, security expert, access, supervisory, systems
 
 
 
 
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God took me off the grid

2008-07-04 23:28:24 by HASH0x8b39e9c in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...grid this weekend. I am writing this on Bonnie's desktop machine. The kids are staying with my cousins and Bonnie and I are headed down to Key Largo for the weekend. I have her spare pink Razor with my Sim card for phone calls, but that is it. No email, no computers, no blogging! Speak to you all Sunday night or Monday, enjoy your weekend...
 
Tags: phone calls, phone, windows mobile phone, weekend, holiday weekend, email, hollywood beach, spare pink razor, beach
 
 
 
 
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God took me off the grid

2008-07-05 00:28:24 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...grid this weekend. I am writing this on Bonnie's desktop machine. The kids are staying with my cousins and Bonnie and I are headed down to Key Largo for the weekend. I have her spare pink Razor with my Sim card for phone calls, but that is it. No email, no computers, no blogging! Speak to you all Sunday night or Monday, enjoy your weekend...
 
Tags: phone calls, phone, windows mobile phone, weekend, holiday weekend, email, hollywood beach, spare pink razor, beach
 
 
 
 
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Collaboration in the Cloud, Virtual Worlds and the Hacker Mindset

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2008-07-17 15:51:24 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
...Grid - an experimental grid completely disconnected from the Main Grid - to a virtual world running IBM OpenSIM At this stage there is intentionally no asset transfer going on at all - in other words, you cant take your stuff from one world to another - but that will come in time as the Open Grid Protocol is extended. Today just login and...
 
Tags: virtual worlds, worlds, research, vulnerability research, security research, life, life property owners, life research community, collaboration
 
 
 
 
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Power Outages Are A Major Risk That Most Companies Overlook

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2008-07-10 17:31:34 by Stephanie Balaouras in Security & Risk Management
...grid failure. Because Rackspace is a managed service provider (MSP), the downtime affected several businesses hosted in the data center When companies think of disaster recovery and downtime, they typically think of catastrophic events such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes. What companies don't realize is that the most common cause...
 
Tags: prevent power failures, failures, data center, recovery data center, backup power, backup power generators, power failures, power failure, rackspace power failure
 
 
 
 
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BPL Powers Down

2008-05-05 09:59:43 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...grid features that allow dramatically improved network monitoring--which is a well-understood aspect of data over powerlines, dating to much slower and primitive networks. The Dallas Morning News reports that just 64,000 homes were wired for BPL so far, and that Oncor will not offer Internet access. Oncor had agreed in 2006 to pay $150m for...
 
Tags: bpl, bpl equipment, bpl service, catalyze bpl, fcc, favorable fcc, oncor, network deployment, network
 
 
 
 
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New Year's Resolutions for choosing online retailers

2007-12-20 09:31:28 by Andras Cser in Security & Risk Management
 
...gridcard) (inexpensive, low level of security, medium user inconvenience User has a list of OTP passwords printed on a sheet or a grid card of letters and numbers that the user has to enter when logging in Vendors: Entrust Out of band authentication (costly, medium level of security, medium level of user inconvenience User receives a...
 
Tags: user inconvenience, low user inconvenience, users desktop, users desktop software, software, medium user inconvenience, low, imagic software, user
 
 
 
 
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Article: Analytics Brief: Securing The New Data Center

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2008-01-07 05:28:32 by Editor in Security Links
...grid computing to SaaS to security Though a virtual appliance can be created for any virtualization environment, VMware is ahead of the field and has created a marketplace along with a try-before-you-buy Web site. More than 100 security-related virtual appliances are listed on the site. Only a fraction of those are from commercial vendors....
 
Tags: virtual environment, environment, virtual appliances range, virtual appliances, security, tools, security tools, develop security, security holes
 
 
 
 
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Modeling Urban Panic

2008-01-14 12:09:28 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...grid facilitate or does not facilitate mass evacuation prior to a hurricane landfall or in the event of dirty bomb detonation; 4) design a mall which can compel customers to shop to the point of bankruptcy, to walk obliviously for miles and miles and miles, endlessly to the point of physical