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Turning off Fire Hydrants in the Name of Terrorism

2008-09-11 13:59:42 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
This really pegs the stupid meter: He explains all the district's hydrants, including those in Alexander Ranch, have had their water turned off since just after 9/11 -- something a trade association spokesman tells us is common practice for rural systems These hydrants need to be cut off in a way to prevent vandalism or any kind of terrorist...
 
Tags: hydrants, fire hydrants, water valves, water, terrorism, water lines, prevent, common, prevent vandalism
 
 
 
 
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MySpace, Facebook show off tools that can ward off child predators

2008-09-24 04:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Top social networks MySpace and Facebook outlined their measures for keeping child predators off their sites at a task force meeting in Cambridge, Mass
 
Tags: child predators, task force, facebook, sites, mass, measures, cambridge
 
 
 
 
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National Cyber Security Month Kicks Off at the National Press Club

2007-10-03 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
This month, I'll be posting blogs several times a week given that this is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. To kick off this year's campaign, the 2007 National Cyber Security Awareness Summit was held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on October 1st Below, you will find a post from the Summit I was encouraged by the strong...
 
Tags: national press club, october, october 1st, month, strong turnout, 4th time, start time, half, held
 
 
 
 
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Report: Google To Kill Off Domain Tasting

2008-01-24 19:56:15 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
Domain Tasting is a practice whereby someone registers a domain and immediately begins monetizing it. If the results are good, they keep the domain. If not, they delete the registration before the end of the 5 day grace period. But tasters make a lot of money even on the domains they end up deleting. A recent ICANN report indicated that the...
 
Tags: domain, google, registration period, recent icann report, registration, stymie tasters, domains, day grace period, tasters
 
 
 
 
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Report: Google to Kill Off Domain Tasting

2008-01-24 19:56:15 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
Domain tasting is a practice whereby someone registers a domain and immediately begins monetizing it. If the results are good, that person keeps the domain. If not, he or she deletes the registration before the end of the five-day grace period. But tasters make a lot of money even on the domains they end up deleting. A recent ICANN report...
 
Tags: domain, google, five-day grace period, registration period, recent icann report, registration, stymie tasters, domains, tasters
 
 
 
 
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To sleep, power off or hibernate - cold boot and user behaviour..

2008-03-14 16:14:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
Interesting weeks - the last couple. Lots of folks debating whether the cold boot risk is real - is it too esoteric? Who do we know lugs around cans of liquid nitrogen to bring DRAM to 0 degree Kelvin!?! Maybe the guy who makes the Terminator movies I must admit the video was cool to watch - frozen chips... And therefore, most of the focus...
 
Tags: larger hibernation file, hibernation, larger hibernation file-, power, cool, chips, cold boot attack, power modes, cold boot risk
 
 
 
 
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Get your paws off me, you dirty ape. Of course I can talk, Im a contractor.

2008-03-22 04:20:51 by Scott in Scott Wright's Security Views
 
I felt a bit like one of the humans in Planet of the Apes (or the Simpsons version - Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off click HERE) today when I saw the news about the breach of privacy by US State Department and/or passport office employees. They have apparently
 
Tags: apes, planet, simpsons version, apparently, stop, humans, bit, breach, click
 
 
 
 
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RSA - RSA to kick off next week with Microsoft's 'Stirling'

2008-04-03 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
The world's largest security conference will kick off next week in San Francisco with the public unveiling of Microsoft's next-generation of security software, code-named Stirling
 
Tags: week, security software, kick, microsoft, security conference, san francisco, world, next-generation, public
 
 
 
 
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You have to take your (white) hat off to these hackers.... and a lot else too!

2007-11-05 12:20:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
The Washington Post has an article on an interesting new piece of malware Captchas are those weird little blocks with numbers and letters all jumbled up and fairly difficult to read. They are there to check whether the user is a human or a computer pretending to be a human. They essentially prevent hackers from automating things that server...
 
Tags: email account, free email account, prevent spammers, human, captchas, spammers, prevent hackers, blond lady, server owners