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Anonymizer acquired by risk-mitigation firm

2008-05-01 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Herndon, Va.,-based risk-mitigation firm Abraxas Corp. announced it has acquired, for an undisclosed price, San Diego-based Anonymizer, which makes products that shield a user's identity online
 
Tags: identity online, anonymizer, san, herndon, user, shield, price, products
 
 
 
 
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Have you googled, HR security breaches lately?

2008-07-08 09:38:15 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...mitigation terms in their contract, Colt Express announced that it was in financial difficulty. So Google has had to pay for financial reporting and other compensation to its own employees, even though Google did nothing wrong Third, a Google representative stated "We take the security of our employees very seriously and require outside...
 
Tags: data, employee data, outsource partner destroy, outsource partner, confidential personal data, security, financial data, partner, partner apparently
 
 
 
 
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Autorun: good for you?

2007-09-23 05:29:48 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...mitigation. At a recent conference I was surprised at the number of folks who haven't considered the risks of leaving it enabled. Surely by now most of you have heard about how certain music CDs can spread rootkits in your network. Yeah, holding down the [Shift] key when inserting a CD-ROM or USB drive will bypass the autorun.inf file -- but...
 
Tags: autorun, autorun raises, autorun commands, autorun settings, key, registry key, disable autorun, computer, computer configuration
 
 
 
 
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Malware Infected Hosts as Stepping Stones

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2008-02-21 22:03:01 by HASH0x8b1f7bc in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...mitigation approaches In typical proxybot infections we investigate proxy servers are installed on compromised machines on random high ports (above 1024) and the miscreants track their active proxies by making them "call home" and advertise their availability, IP address, and port(s) their proxies are listening on. These aggregated proxy...
 
Tags: hosts, malware, socks hosts, malware infects hosts, top application, application, stones, top, activities
 
 
 
 
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CFIUS 2 - M&A 0

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2008-02-20 22:51:02 by HASH0x8bbd720 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...mitigation agreement. As I wrote about last week, 3Com and company had offered to spin off Tipping Point to remove any potentially sensitive technology from the deal. I guess that wasn't enough for those free trade dudes at CFIUS. So the 3Com-Bain deal joins the Checkpoint-Sourcefire deal as being shut down by the government. 3Com's stock...
 
Tags: 3com-bain deal joins, deal, bain, 3com, security company, company, free trade dudes, free trade, foreign owned company
 
 
 
 
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How do you spell R-E-L-I-E-F?

2008-02-13 18:50:54 by HASH0x8bc3020 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...mitigation proposals including the selling off of Tipping Point In my mind the question is: Will that be enough? Is it only the Tipping Point stuff that causes the issue? Does 3Com have other sensitive technology. I don't know, but I am sure the recent arrest of 4 Chinese people on espionage type of charges did not help the Bain position....
 
Tags: buyer, potential buyer pool, questions, bain position, acceptable buyer, bain, based company decrease, substantial stake, mitigation proposals
 
 
 
 
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Security Incident Strikes and You are on the Hot Seat..

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2007-07-27 07:00:39 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
...mitigation plan for this newly known vulnerability going forward Scenario 3: The vulnerability that resulted in the incident was ignored. Remediation: Deal with the incident and revisit why the vulnerability was chosen to be ignored in the first place. It may be possible that you end up making a decision of not ignoring this vulnerability ...
 
Tags: incident, security incident, incident playbook, incident management plan, earthquake incident, sound incident, security incidents, nasty security incidents, plan
 
 
 
 
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We did not get sufficient budget for security program..

2007-01-19 07:33:52 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
Security manager often complain about the budget allocation to the security program. Is it true that senior management does not give a hoot about security? More likely than not the security manager has not communicated the value of the security program (Please. refer: Mike Rothman's Pragmatic CSO Section 4:Communicate your Value 1. Track metrics...
 
Tags: security, security program, impart security awareness, security manager, post security column, security practice, information security practice, regular basis, company intranet portal
 
 
 
 
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Top 3 conclusions about IT Risk Management we like hearing

2008-02-25 14:28:00 by Ryan Shopp in practical risk management
 
...mitigation, balanced controls and frameworks are also necessary in order to provide complete risk management capabilities Management should consider implementing a continuous risk assessment process
 
Tags: risk management, risk, risk management element, risk mitigation, management, recent symantec, nice summary, technology plays, technology