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Audio: Helpful Hacker Gives a Security Lesson to Paris Hilton

2008-03-07 20:00:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
A favorite target of hackers, Paris Hilton gets an earnest lesson in telephone security from 24-year-old white-hat phone phreak Lucky225. Paris: "People are mean
 
Tags: paris, paris hilton, favorite target, lesson, telephone security, people, hackers
 
 
 
 
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Security Matters: Lesson From the DNS Bug: Patching Isn't Enough

2008-07-23 19:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...lesson is that the patch treadmill doesn't work, and it hasn't for years. This cycle of finding security holes and rushing to patch them before the bad guys exploit those vulnerabilities is expensive, inefficient and incomplete. We need to design security into our systems right from the beginning. We need assurance . We need security...
 
Tags: security, security engineer, security engineer brings, security holes, smart design choice, design, security engineers, kaminsky, dan kaminsky
 
 
 
 
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Do they have to grow up?

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2008-02-25 02:57:30 by HASH0x8abc9d0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...lesson to learn for 8 and 9 year olds, that not everyone can be the pitcher. I had mixed feelings about doing this because I didn't want the kids to lose confidence or be hurt by their lack of success. Even Landon who is one of the kids on the team who can pitch (picture to the left) was crying after the game that he did not want to play on...
 
Tags: team, team scoreless, team anymore, team sport, team contributes, kids, pitch, pitch anymore, pitcher
 
 
 
 
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Do they have to grow up?

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2008-02-25 03:55:18 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...lesson to learn for 8 and 9 year olds, that not everyone can be the pitcher. I had mixed feelings about doing this because I didn't want the kids to lose confidence or be hurt by their lack of success. Even Landon who is one of the kids on the team who can pitch (picture to the left) was crying after the game that he did not want to play on...
 
Tags: team, team scoreless, team anymore, team sport, team contributes, kids, pitch, pitch anymore, pitcher
 
 
 
 
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Security Plans [Part 2]

2007-09-14 07:28:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
...lesson. The paradigm shift had not happened yet but we are slowly getting there The fact that new worms are coming out all the time but we haven't had a global epidemic of Slammer proportions means that we are learning our lesson. The fact that the Storm worm is still being successful means that there is still some way to go Our first...
 
Tags: security, storm worm, worm, sql slammer worm, information security, paradigm, paradigm shift, application security, code red worm
 
 
 
 
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Hacking My Own Accounts

2008-05-28 16:13:04 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...lesson intact: keep adequate documentation of all your login info I thought Id share my lesson with you, because even though youre probably smarter than me in this regard, it bears repeating. Whether you are just worried about your personal accounts or especially if you manage corporate networks, take the extra time to keep clear, adequate...
 
Tags: accounts, login info, password, browsers password memory, info, account log-ins, login, lesson, personal accounts
 
 
 
 
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Civilians Ask Whats With All the Privacy Act Kerfluffle?

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2008-06-26 21:51:41 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
...lesson please We have a law, the Privacy Act of 1974. Think about it, what significant privacy-wrenching activities happened just a couple of years prior? Can we say Watergate Scandal ? Can we say Church Committee ? Suffice it to say, the early 1970s was an era filled with privacy issues and is where most of our privacy policy and law comes...
 
Tags: privacy act, privacy act procedures, privacy act deals, privacy act data, privacy, data, data lies, privacy act talks, privacy policy
 
 
 
 
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Risk Management Lessons from the Mortgage Meltdown

2007-12-14 16:54:17 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
 
...lesson here, whether evaluating investments, business partners, emerging markets, or new technologies, is to effectively measure and understand risk exposure to know when its worth taking certain chances Risk management decisions are being closely watched. Customers, business partners, and investors alike have more access to risk management...
 
Tags: risk, risk exposure, risk management decisions, intelligent risk, risk-savvy media, risk management professionals, goldman sachs, goldman sachs performance, risk management information
 
 
 
 
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Risky by association

2007-12-26 16:14:25 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
 
...lesson is a good one. Its not just about managing outsourcers... its making sure they manage their outsourcers, and so on down the complex chain. Whether its product safety, social responsibility, or information security issues, supply chain management is getting more in-depth, and necessarily so, as the number and potential imapct of risks...
 
Tags: responsibility, responsibility organization, oversee product quality, information security issues, security, quality, supply chain partners, social responsibility, epiphany
 
 
 
 
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Book Review: The Pragmatic CSO

2008-01-02 15:24:45 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab