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U.S. Arms Dealer Tests Legal Bounds in Middle East Arms Bazaar

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2008-07-03 22:00:00 by Sharon Weinberger in Wired Security
...led to Moscow to discuss working with Russia's weapons-export agency on arms sales to the Middle East Both trips were part of the company's effort to tap into the growing -- and often legally murky -- market for selling weapons from former Eastern Bloc countries to the Middle East and Afghanistan Ex-Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Penn., is helping...
 
Tags: arms brokers, brokers, infamous arms brokers, defense, firm defense solutions, arms, arms trade, international arms trade, russian weapons suppliers
 
 
 
 
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Metro Round-Up: St. Louis, Minneapolis, Tempe

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2008-04-12 21:15:38 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...led them to cancel a city-wide Wi-Fi network--a lack of 24-hour-a-day power on utility poles--by building just a square mile out with nodes placd on traffic lights. The lack of power is rather difficult to overcome, and traffic lights are spaced too sparsely to replicate this deployment city-wide. AT&T is offering free, ad-supported 512 Kbps...
 
Tags: city, city-wide wi-fi network, network, deployment city-wide, city official, downtown wi-fi network, cancel, cancel gobility, gobility
 
 
 
 
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MetroFi Plans Market Exit: Sale or Shutter

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2008-05-15 21:47:12 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...led me this evening with the news that his firm has decided that they will sell their networks in nine cities, including their first cities in the Bay Area (Cupertino, Santa Clara, and Sunnyvale), and their largest muni deployment in Portland, Ore. If no buyers emerge--including the cities in question--Haas said that MetroFi would have a...
 
Tags: metro-scale wi-fi, wi-fi, large-city wi-fi network, wi-fi providers, wi-fi network, york wi-fi plan, city, city dollars, super-fast wi-fi network
 
 
 
 
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Defining Risk Management

2008-02-05 18:52:39 by Posted By: Paul Proctor, Research VP in IT Leaders - Security and Risk Management
 
...led to confusion in terminology and applicability. The word "risk" has proliferated in titles for traditional roles and responsibilities such as security, business continuity, privacy and many operations functions. In some cases, this is nothing more than a title change with no fundamental shift in methodology. This proliferation has led...
 
Tags: risk management, risk, enterprise risk management, led organizations, led, organizations, risk measurement, traditional, traditional operational roles
 
 
 
 
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Auditing open source software

2007-10-08 16:13:00 by Panayiotis Mavrommatis in Google Online Security Blog
 
...leDir TagSize = SpGetUInt32 (&Ptr if (ProfileSize < TagOffset + TagSize return SpStatBadProfileDir Ptr = (KpInt32 t *) malloc ((unsigned int)numBytes+HEADER Both TagSize and TagOffset are untrusted unsigned 32-bit values pulled out of images being parsed. They are added together, causing a classic integer overflow condition and the bypass...
 
Tags: image, malicious image file, libtiff image, values, jpeg image, tiff header values, source, evil tiff file, evil
 
 
 
 
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TRICARE breach affects 4,700 households

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2007-12-20 12:15:59 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...led to this breach Was it poorly written code? (check out OWASP Was it a mis-configuration of the web server Was encryption not required, i.e. a user could use http or https to access the application Was it a combination of factors? I will assume it was a combination of factors On the one hand, I commend EDS for disclosing the breach to...
 
Tags: tricare, information, personal information, code review, by-line code review, information security, tricare beneficiaries, beneficiaries, breach
 
 
 
 
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AIB technical problem discloses details of bank transfers

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2007-11-28 17:08:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...led it to send 15,000 notifications to its customers containing the private bank account details of other individuals. A total of 11,000 AIB customers are affected by the move, writes John Downes Last night, it also emerged that some of the bank account details sent to AIB customers in recent days relate not just to AIB accounts, but also...
 
Tags: bank, account, bank account details, aib bank, bank account, aib, details, wrong customers, customers
 
 
 
 
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Speaking of Security Podcast #69

2007-07-24 00:00:00 by Podcast Producers in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
Click here to listen/download (10:55 Speaking of Security Blogger, Shannon Kellogg , interviews Hord Tipton, former CIO of the U.S. Department of Interior . Hord shares a bit about how he led the reorganization and development the Department's IT infrastructure across eight major bureaus and how his focus moved more and more toward information...
 
Tags: interviews hord tipton, information security initiatives, department, focus moved, security blogger, major bureaus, hord shares, shannon kellogg, led
 
 
 
 
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The Type of Lock Needed Has Changed

2007-01-22 00:00:00 by Chris Parkerson in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...led to a reduction in breaches caused by traditional hacking. But this focus has also left everything inside the perimeter vulnerable to breaches that are more commonly affecting today's businesses -- lapses or breakdowns in internal processes, disgruntled employees walking off with laptops, mistakes by couriers and shipping companies,...
 
Tags: employees, customer service employees, perimeter vulnerable, perimeter, internal processes, focus, security approaches, proper precautions, breaches
 
 
 
 
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Stolen Wendy's laptop affects 1,092 employees

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2008-01-03 14:08:27 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...led "identitythiefopenme.xls The information included the name, email address, social security number, employee identification number, and salary information The total number of affected individuals was around 1092 (U.S In order to ensure that affected individuals could take immediate steps to protect themselves from possible identity...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, information security, confidential information, information security policies, wendy, breach description, breach