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Student hacks Broward Schools and accesses personal information

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2008-03-24 13:22:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...intent or that he did anything with the information he was able to retrieve," Bromery said. [Evan] Breaking into the school's computer systems is against the law. Michael Wasa also had " credit card generators" in his possession. Yet, "There's still no reason to believe that there was criminal intent Melissa Grimm, a district project...
 
Tags: information, personal information, students, information technology team, school students, school, information security, pinnacle gradebook, pinnacle
 
 
 
 
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Armchair Legal Analysis of Sierra v. Ritz

2008-01-17 20:25:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...intent and network traffic what was going on. At the same time though, let's say I send a ton of traffic at you, or I start fingerprinting your system. Intent is really the key question here Did I knowingly attempt to access your computer without authorization? What was my intent? It is generally the answers to these questions that would be...
 
Tags: dns zone transfers, zone transfers, trespass, prevent trespass, prevent zone transfers, computer, computer fraud, physical world trespass, lot murkier
 
 
 
 
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Notes from IEEE Web 2.0 Security and Privacy Workshop (W2SP2008)

2008-05-27 22:45:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...intent. Because the web browser can't really distinguish between them, we don't have a clean way of separating the security policies here Collin went on to show a multitude of problems in the same origin policy between sites, and problems in the upgrade/downgrade of security indicators in a browser. I won't rehash all of his results but...
 
Tags: browser, browser security models, browser project, browser security model, security models, browser security, security, web, security challenges
 
 
 
 
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New Ban Proposed In UK Against Hacker Tools

2008-01-03 18:54:22 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...intent in either case. Often times the research done on this site and others of its kind are academic and are helping to solve the problems. Granted that same information can empower less scrupulous types, so thats at least partially the intent of the law. However, I would bet money that this does little, if anything, to stop the...
 
Tags: site, law, tools, exploitation materials, intent, bet money, scrupulous types, equipment offshore, researchers alike
 
 
 
 
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More trustworthy election systems via SDL?

2008-02-04 23:34:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...intent. In theory, such precision can be improved by using computers and technology However, it seems that every recent election season brings stories in the media about security concerns regarding voting machine (and their software) security. A recent New York Times article provides a good overview of voting machine security concerns; and...
 
Tags: machine security concerns, security concerns, election systems, election, security, security researchers, election systems margin, margin, election management system
 
 
 
 
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Clovis Unified School District employees receive notice

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2008-02-21 01:57:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...intent of the burglary was to steal identity information Evan] I don't know how you would determine intent based on the limited information available. At some point in time thieves are going to figure out that there is a heckuva lot more to gain by using the stolen information than there is in the pawning off the hardware Fullerton police say...
 
Tags: district, district employees, school district, district management, school district vendor, school district employees, employees, sensitive personal information, personal information
 
 
 
 
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Some Comments on PayPal's Security Vulnerability Disclosure Policy

2007-11-27 18:07:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...intent matter While we don't want users to test the security of the PayPal site, should they do so they should be careful to minimize the disruption caused by their testing. If you start tinkering with URLs to see whether you can view certain data, do it between two accounts you control, don't try to view other people's data. There is a fine...
 
Tags: disclosure, encourage responsible disclosure, responsible disclosure, security, security vulnerability disclosure, policy, security vulnerability, disclosure policies, disclosure statement
 
 
 
 
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Three computers at the University of Colorado are compromised

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2008-04-30 08:54:01 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...intent of the malicious file and whether it allowed the perpetrator to gain access to any private data Evan] The school must think that there is a chance that the intent of the malicious file was to capture and transmit sensitive information and that there was a chance of success. Otherwise, why would the school report it? If it were a run of...
 
Tags: store confidential information, information, store personal information, information security efforts, security efforts, efforts, address computer security, computers, computer security
 
 
 
 
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Technical glitch blamed in The Princeton Tower Club breach

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2008-05-13 09:20:10 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...intentionally because of "a technical glitch," Tower graduate board chair Greg Berzolla 87 said Evan] Really? A technical glitch? These types of breaches are usually the result of human error The [spreadsheet] file wasnt even available on the hard drive [of the computer that sent the e-mail]," Berzolla said. "[The e-mail system] took an old...
 
Tags: princeton tower club, tower club, club, club technical chair, e-mail system tower, e-mail system, tower, system, current club