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Passenger Says He Hacked Windows In New York Taxi Display Screen

2007-12-28 14:02:19 by Editor in Security Links
 
...InformationWeek December 27, 2007 03:10 PM A New York City software engineer managed to gain access to the operating system for a touch-screen display available in the back seat of many Manhattan taxicabs and also used it to connect to the Internet. But no sensitive information or critical systems were compromised, according to the display...
 
Tags: display, display systems vendor, display systems, credit card, card, sensitive information, information, display system, credit card information
 
 
 
 
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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
...InformationWeek December 1, 2007 12:01 AM (From the December 3, 2007 issue In a recent InformationWeek poll, 70% of respondents report theyre running at least one virtualized server, yet less than 12% have a security strategy tailored to their virtual environment. Given the relative nascence of virtualization offerings for the x86 platform,...
 
Tags: virtual environment, environment, virtual appliances range, virtual appliances, security, tools, security tools, develop security, security holes
 
 
 
 
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Davidson Companies illegal network intrusion exposes clients

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2008-02-01 14:51:54 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...InformationWeek story Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Clients and former clients Number Affected 226,000 Types of Data Names, Social Security numbers, and account numbers and balances Breach Description Davidson Companies announced that a database containing sensitive personal information belonging to clients and former clients...
 
Tags: davidson, clients, davidson companies president, davidson companies clients, sensitive personal information, davidson login page, personal information, davidson companies, davidson trust
 
 
 
 
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Encryption defeated, still an advocate?

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2008-02-22 16:15:15 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Encryption Originally I was not going to write about this because it is not a breach (incident), but Yesterday, researchers from Princeton University, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Wind River Systems released an eye-opening report labeled " Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys " in which they...
 
Tags: encryption, disk encryption software, encryption software, information security field, information, hard drive encryption, disk encryption, text information, encryption keys
 
 
 
 
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SDL and Web 2.0

2008-02-28 22:26:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...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 column (probably my favorite quote from anyones column so far this year): theres still much to do in the [software] industry to reach a level of truly sustainable computing. This is...
 
Tags: web, site, chriss web site, mashups, web mashups, site cookies, persistent cross-site, cookies, benefit anyones web
 
 
 
 
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Fun Reading on Security - 1

2008-04-18 17:10:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...InformationWeek quotes a survey that mobile banking will grow 10x in the next 3 years. To me this sound like: finally, mobile malware Finally, Alan Shimmel unveils his " Shimel's theory of security company relativity or why there are so damn many security companies " which is an absolute must-read. I mean it ( part 1 , part 2 ) Fun quotes:...
 
Tags: security, security company relativity, security innovation, fun, security professional, companies, security companies, security roles, security mindset
 
 
 
 
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Information Week's Virtual NAC Tradeshow

2008-04-23 04:59:05 by JJ in Security Uncorked
 
...InformationWeek booth for that one, and all the other fun presentations from Mike and the NAC crew. Robert Richardson , director of Computer Security Institute speaks on the role of identity. Steve Hanna , co-chair of TCG/TNC and IETF working groups provides update and information on NAC frameworks and standards. Robert Marley , CSO for...
 
Tags: information, nac, nac information, information week, nac crew, virtual nac tradeshow, nac frameworks, week, presentation
 
 
 
 
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EarthLink Shutters New Orleans, Staunches Own Losses

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2008-04-25 15:52:07 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...InformationWeek reports that EarthLink attempted to sell the network, get the city to buy it, and then to simply give the network (and its obligations) away, but had no takers on any front EarthLink announced its most recent quarter's earnings a few days ago, and they managed to turn a GAAP profit, while staunching the bleeding of so many...
 
Tags: earthlink, slightly lower churn, slightly, lower, loss, increasingly poor access, earnings, drop, noticeable drop
 
 
 
 
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Links List 5.12.08

2008-05-12 15:06:36 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
 
...InformationWeek shows that virtualization is a top monitoring challenge TheTechStop shares some behind-the-scenes pictures from InteropNet . Personally, were just glad that someone else enjoys taking such geek-friendly pictures The Daily Network Monitor shares five quick and easy things to look at when considering monitoring solutions...
 
Tags: network, network instruments, interop, geek-friendly pictures, interop-eration, network performance daily, virtualization, pictures, bad day
 
 
 
 
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Links for 2008-06-16 [del.icio.us]

2008-06-17 00:00:00 by Editor in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
Facing The Monster: The Labors Of Log Management -- Compliance -- InformationWeek
 
Tags: log management, compliance, monster, labors, informationweek