SEARCH RESULTS
 
Showing 1-10 of 643 records
 
Expand article

Long Island University notifies students of mailing error

The Article has images
2008-02-12 09:53:50 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 2/12/08 Organization Long Island University Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims all students who were enrolled at Long Island University in the calendar year 2007 Number Affected 28,000 Types of Data Student names, addresses and Social Security Numbers Breach Description During the week...
 
Tags: island university, university, post, post office personnel, students, post office, personal data, data, social security
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Long holiday weekend

The Article has images
2008-05-23 07:47:30 by HASH0x8b42c24 in StillSecure, After All These Years
I am really looking forward to a long holiday weekend with the family. We are driving up to Orlando to stop in Disney World and SeaWorld. Going to check out the new water park they opened there called Aquatica . It has water rides unlike any we have ever seen. A day there and two days at Disney should have the kids in a great mood. Lets see what...
 
Tags: weekend, holiday weekend, water rides unlike, disney world, disney, mood, gas tank, water park, orlando
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Long Island Proposal Snags Again, on Poles

The Article has images
2008-07-28 11:07:26 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
Long Island proposal still mired: The plan to put Wi-Fi up across two Long Island counties has seemed doomed to me from the start. The company that won the bid was untested, and its other in-deployment or in-proposal networks are off the table. Expertise aside, it needs tens of millions to build such a network, and financing for company-funded...
 
Tags: telecom act, telecom act deal, telecom, proposal, island proposal, e-path, networks, represents e-path, municipal networks
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Worst Security I Have Seen in a Long Time

2008-03-07 22:28:51 by Bill in Grumpy Security Guy
 
When the clueless are on the intarwebs this is what happens http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/So-You-Hacked-Our-Site!.aspx Related Posts Is PCI Really Working? 2007 Worst Year Yet Wired has a good article covering the fact that 2007 was the worst year on record when it comes to t Scariest Thing Ever Holly crap!! This is something straight out of...
 
Tags: security, worst security, grumpy security guy, security consultants, worst, security neighborhood, underground security resources, security consultant hacks, time
 
 
 
 
Expand article

New York Times Taunts Long Island Effort, E-Path

The Article has images
2008-04-15 10:53:58 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
The New York Times editorial board says nyah-nyah to Long Island's Wi-Fi network: The editorial posted on the Times masthead blog, The Board, notes that a "no-name" company wiht "no track record" was awarded a contract, and that citizens shouldn't worry because "the government wouldn't be spending anything." (The Suffolk County executive Steve...
 
Tags: logo taxpayer dollars, taxpayer dollars, times, fewer taxpayer dollars, logo, dollars, wi-fi, wi-fi network, times editorial board
 
 
 
 
Expand article

That didn't take long

2008-05-06 06:33:57 by HASH0x8472458 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
Over the weekend I wrote an article about what a Yahoo shareholder would do with a copy of Steve Ballmer's letter to Jerry Yang. Well, it didn't take very long for a class action law suit being filed , led by two pension funds. Attorneys for the pension funds said, "The actions taken by Yahoo's CEO this past weekend confirm that the company's...
 
Tags: yahoo deal, yahoo, yahoo shareholder, deal, jerry yang, steve ballmer, yang, pension funds, weekend
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Long Tail Supplier Collaboration - What's In It For You?

2008-05-09 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Source: Sterling Commerce) A recent AMR Research study revealed that approximately 70% of companies feel collaboration with long tail suppliers is as important to their business success as collaboration with their core suppliers. If you're not one of them, what are you missing? Join Jane Barrett, Research Director for AMR Research specializing...
 
Tags: collaboration, join jane barrett, research director, business success, amr research, tail suppliers, complete results, core suppliers, discuss
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Password policies. Once again.

2007-09-04 22:14:00 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
Recently in the newsgroups ( news:microsoft.public.security , to be specific) the question of password polices and the out-of-box defaults came up. The poster lamented a number of things: that Microsoft doesn't enable account lockout by default, that we don't have a built-in mechanism for automatically disabling unused accounts, that the 42-day...
 
Tags: account, enable account lockout, password, account lockouts, disable account lockout, 42-day default expiration, default, expiration, password expires
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Passport Canada web site suffers serious breach

The Article has images
2007-12-05 11:51:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 12/4/07 Organization Government of Canada Contractor/Consultant/Branch Passport Canada As mandated by the Canadian Passport Order, Passport Canada is responsible for issuing, revoking, withholding, recovering, and providing instructions on the use of Canadian passports Victims Certain persons...
 
Tags: passport canada, information, personal information, passport application information, application, breach, passport application site, passport canada spokesman, significant security breaches
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Netscape Closes Shop

2007-12-30 20:17:11 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
Yup, its true. I wish it werent, but it is. Netscape has finally decided to discontinue development . AOL has decided that as of Feb 1st 2008 they will discontinue releasing any further revisions, including security updates for the Netscape browser. Honestly, this doesnt come as a huge surprise to me given how things have been going for the last...