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Securing Network Location Awareness with Authenticated DHCP

2008-03-19 12:47:02 by Steven J. Murdoch in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...Location Awareness with Authenticated DHCP How a computer should behave depends on its network location. Existing security solutions, like firewalls, fail to adequately protect mobile users because they assume their policy is static. This results in laptop computers being configured with fairly open policies, in order to facilitate...
 
Tags: network location, location, network location awareness, network, office location, dhcp, network location identifier, logical network, vista dhcp client
 
 
 
 
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Terror on the Internet - Conflict of Interest

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2008-03-18 19:58:23 by HASH0x8471fd8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...location once they have their previous domain shut down. Personal experience and third party research indicates that over 90% of the cyber jihadist communities/blogs are hosted by U.S based not owned companies. And with the lack of real-time intell sharing between the agencies themselves, the first who picks up the community will be...
 
Tags: cyber jihadist, cyber jihadist communities, novice cyber jihadists, jihadists, cyber jihadist forums, cyber jihadist sites, attract cyber jihadists, internet, cyber jihadists
 
 
 
 
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Introducing Google's online security efforts

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2007-05-21 09:43:00 by A Googler in Google Online Security Blog
...location of compromised web sites and the location of malware distribution hosts. At the moment, the majority of malware activity seems to happen in China, the U.S., Germany and Russia (see below Location of compromised web sites. These are often sites that are benign in nature but have been compromised and have become dangerous for users to...
 
Tags: activity, malware activity, web servers, servers, malware, anti- malware effort, malware distribution servers, sites, web sites
 
 
 
 
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Two students access confidential Dominican University files

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2008-05-14 22:40:18 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...location that was to be accessible only to specific staff members Evan] Is this password misuse or just poorly secured files and poor security? The confidential files were stored in an unsecure location that was supposed to be accessible by specific staff. Does this make any sense to you One of the students came forward earlier this month...
 
Tags: university, dominican university, dominican university students, dominican, students, files, security, security processes, access
 
 
 
 
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When does a bodyguard need to shoot into a crowd?

2008-06-24 23:28:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...Location, Location, Location". In security, it is about; "Training, Training, Training". I sincerely hope that many get to know of this incident (including nearly all of the Hollywood stars who allow their Protectors to assault people on a regular basis)and begin to realize the importance of having a professionally trained person taking care...
 
Tags: bodyguard, people, assault people, india, fair price, price, crowd, experience, life
 
 
 
 
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The Time, The Place....

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2008-06-30 15:52:55 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...location mentioned. "Automatically create activities and update your location", says a blurb next to a link for "The Plazer" software for your PC From what I can gather, the technology has been around since at least 1995 in the form of mobile phone applications and the like. Deciding to tie it into a Social Networking site would seem to be...
 
Tags: social web-to-go, exact physical location, location, web, social, information, personal information, day business, spells potential disaster
 
 
 
 
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You Need An Address to Call 911

2007-08-23 09:23:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...location, so the expensive car could be reclaimed I could not imagine that it would have taken 10 minutes for me to explain where I was, but it did The problem was I didnt have an address. All I knew was the exit number off the highway, the name of the hotel, and that I was 150 yards south of the building on a set of railroad tracks. None of...
 
Tags: tracks, train tracks, railroad tracks, rail road tracks, hotel, address, road, expensive car, imperfect information
 
 
 
 
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Lost laptop = Lost data!

2007-08-18 08:28:15 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...location of a stolen laptop. They work when the laptop connects to the Internet, and can report the laptop's exact physical location. Some tracing programs include CyberAngel and ComputracePlus 8 Use a screen guard. These guards help prevent people from peeking over your shoulder as you work on sensitive information in a public place. This...
 
Tags: data, lost data, lost, lost laptop, laptop, laptop data aware, lost brand, aware, laptop security device
 
 
 
 
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Hannaford Supermarkets

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2008-03-22 12:27:00 by Random InfoSec Guy in Security Coin
...location of purchase, amount of purchase, a margin for errors in reads during swipes etc before authorizing a transaction Interesting Update: According to this article, there are around 1800 cases of related fraud so far, and they talk about a $1270 charge going through. Which really means there are authorization engines out there that don't...
 
Tags: card, debit card, pci, track data, pci dss, data, hannaford supermarkets, hannaford, pci compliant
 
 
 
 
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CollegeInvest external hard drive goes missing

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