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Show 015 - An Interview with Annie Antón

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2007-06-19 14:12:30 by rmacmich in The Silver Bullet Security Podcast
On the 15th episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary interviews Annie Antón, Associate Professor of Software Engineering at North Carolina State University and director of theprivacyplace.org. During their discussion, Annie and Gary focus on privacy. They start with an attempt to define what privacy is in the digital world, moving on...
 
Tags: pitiful privacy policies, privacy, consumer privacy, annie, discusses airlines pretty, book letters, letters, partial transcript, gary focus
 
 
 
 
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Algeria U.N. Bombings

2007-12-11 22:46:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
Has your organization done a good job in mitigating the threats of car bombs in high-risk locations Does your organization have effective response plans in place for all offices that detail how to handle the aftermath of a car bombing or explosion Condolences to family, friends and colleagues of U.N. staff members who lost their lives in...
 
Tags: effective response plans, car bombs, car, bombings, algeria, organization, high-risk locations, offices, friends
 
 
 
 
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Poor IT security to blame in Société Générale fraud

2008-02-20 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473a84 in Network World on Security
 
Inadequate IT security allowed a trader at French bank Société Générale to make a series of unauthorized transactions that ultimately cost the bank 4.9 billion ($7.2 billion), an internal investigation has found
 
Tags: billion, ultimately cost, security, internal investigation, trader, series, bank, transactions
 
 
 
 
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N-DEx National Intelligence System

2008-03-31 06:13:30 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
An article from The Washington Post : Federal authorities hope N-DEx will become what one called a "one-stop shop" enabling federal law enforcement, counterterrorism and intelligence analysts to automatically examine the enormous caches of local and state records for the first time The expanding police systems illustrate the prominent roles...
 
Tags: intelligence, police systems, police, authorities, surveillance authorities, local police, law enforcement, federal law enforcement, intelligence analysts
 
 
 
 
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Get Rich Quick at FakeChecks.Org - N O T

2007-12-28 06:53:10 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
 
While I was checking the weather via the internet last night, I saw a banner ad for FakeChecks.org (click here) , which turns out to be an anti-check fraud website sponsored by the National Consumers League . Check fraud has been around almost as long as checks themselves (I am sure it took a week or two for someone to try to steal cash using...
 
Tags: fraud, anti-check fraud website, check, fakechecks, check fraud, org, information security controls, information security, rich quick
 
 
 
 
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Security Lessons Learned from Société Générale

2008-05-22 14:32:02 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
The huge trading losses in 2007 and 2008 at Société Générale were caused by insider Jerome Kerviel's unauthorized actions. We can learn many lessons about the technological aspects of security from this insider attack, as well as some that we might hope to learn, but can't
 
Tags: insider jerome kerviel, lessons, technological aspects, insider attack, socit gnrale, security, actions, hope, losses
 
 
 
 
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Société Générale plans to close loopholes by year end

2008-05-23 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b3dbdc in Network World on Security
 
French bank Société Générale expects to have remedies in place by year end for the technical and procedural flaws that allowed rogue trader Jérôme Kerviel to build a fraudulent trading position that cost the bank 4.9 billion (US$7.25 billion
 
Tags: procedural flaws, billion, cost, fraudulent, position, technical, us7, bank, remedies
 
 
 
 
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McAfee's Site Advisor Blocking n.runs AG - "for starters"

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2008-08-04 09:42:49 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Following the recent, and now fixed false positive blocking sans.org due to the already considered malicious dshield.org and giac.org it's also interesting to note that n.runs AG ( nruns.com ), whose research into vulnerabilities in antivirus products received a lot of attention lately, is also flagged as a dangerous site Excluding the...
 
Tags: site, site advisor, org due, org, dangerous site, specific site, malicious, harmful sites, sites
 
 
 
 
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EPTS: Proposed Event Processing Definitions, September 20, 2006

2008-08-21 05:47:11 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
For interested readers, here are the event processing definitions we provided to the (future) EPTS working group on September 20, 2006, coordinated (edited)by David Luckham and Roy Schulte adaptive process management (n.) an element of resource and business process management, adaptive search and event processing. Sometimes referred to as Level...
 
Tags: event, event-object, business process management, process, event correlation, process refinement, simple, simple event, process events