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Squadron of Justice: protecting the digital realms for America

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2008-08-10 05:53:17 by HASH0x8b61bd0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
A team of superheroes known as "the Squadron of Justice" protect America with their awesomeness and superpowers Finally, a team of heroes has decided to defend all that is good and just on our networks. It's not anymore Marty Roesch of Snorting fame, it's not Markus Ranum, it's not Thomas Ptacek, it's not me either It's the Squadron of Justice....
 
Tags: squadron, justice, anymore marty roesch, thomas ptacek, stay tuned, protect america, markus ranum, team, fame
 
 
 
 
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UK's Information Commissioner gets expanded powers in Criminal Justice and Immigration Act -- will be able to impose steep fines on organizations

2008-05-15 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...Justice and Immigration Act of 2008, the 1998 DPA was updated to enable the Information Commissioner to impose serious fines on organizations. This change in the UK's data protection law was spurred by a string of high-profile breaches of personally-identifiable information in the U.K. over the last year, including the large-scale data breach...
 
Tags: information commissioner, information, fines, immigration act, criminal justice, organizations, levy fines, data protection act, large-scale data breach
 
 
 
 
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U.K. justice agency lost 45,000 personal records in past fiscal year

2008-08-18 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
In an annual report, the U.K. Ministry of Justice said the personal data of about 45,000 people was exposed in a series of security breaches -- some of which weren't disclosed publicly until now
 
Tags: security breaches, annual report, personal data, justice, series, people, publicly, ministry
 
 
 
 
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Are you hiding secret messages in LOLCAT photos?

2008-08-21 09:04:33 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Earlier this year, someone at the US Department of Justice smuggled sensitive financial data out of the agency by embedding the data in several image files. Defeating this exfiltration method, called steganography, has proved particularly tricky, but one engineering student has come up with a way to make espionage work against itself
 
Tags: sensitive financial data, data, image files, exfiltration method, department, tricky, steganography, student, justice
 
 
 
 
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P2P-related breach affects high-profile clients from Wagner Resource Group

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2008-07-14 17:08:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Justice Stephen G. Breyer, which has been well publicized Number Affected 2,000 Types of Data names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers Breach Description The Washington Post today ran a story I wrote on a data breach of a local investment firm that exposed the names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of some of the...
 
Tags: wagner, p2p, investment firm, evan p2p file, mclean investment firm, p2p file, breach, wagner network, wagner resource
 
 
 
 
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New Privacy Policy Wrinkles: Online Behavioral Advertising; and Potential new EU Data Protection Policy

2008-01-31 11:24:31 by Geoffrey Turner in Security & Risk Management
 
...Justice and Home Affairs . The committee was considering the privacy policy implications of behavioural marketing" founded on computerized data collection and on targeted advertising which are creeping into nearly every aspect of the social and commercial transactions searching, browsing, networking, emailing and telephoning. This new...
 
Tags: consumer, consumer protection, privacy policy, consumer choice, consumer data, constitutes sensitive data, sensitive data, protection, ftc staff
 
 
 
 
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Computer Misuse in Scotland

2008-02-14 20:25:22 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...Justice Act 2006 were themselves to be amended by the Serious Crime Act 2007 , and that was not expected to come into force until then. Also, right at the end of 2007 the CPS published their guidance on how these new offences might be prosecuted Now Clive Feather draws my attention to a rather significant difference in the way that the law...
 
Tags: act, computer misuse act, computer misuse, justice act, crime act, scotland, law, law stands, offences stops
 
 
 
 
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MITM on jury duty

2008-02-22 12:29:38 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...Justice for jury duty They offer free wireless for jurors waiting to be called into the court. In the vicinity was the state-run access point, and a host-to-host wireless network calling itself Free Internet Service What could that be but a man-in-the-middle attacker interested in packet capture? It could have been one of the other jurors. Or...
 
Tags: jury duty, local hall, offer free wireless, hall, justice folks, justice, host-to-host wireless network, free internet service, jurors
 
 
 
 
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Electronic Crime Scene Investigation Handbook

2008-05-30 11:01:01 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Electronic Crime Scene Investigation: A Guide for First Responders, Second Edition , National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, April 2008 Mostly basic stuff
 
Tags: justice, basic stuff, national institute, department, april, edition, guide, responders