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Google's DoubleClick deal brings greater focus on privacy

2007-12-21 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
Nearly lost in the news about the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's approval on Thursday of Google's acquisition of DoubleClick was another action by the agency: the publication of a proposed set of privacy principles governing online behavioral advertising
 
Tags: federal trade commission, google, online behavioral, privacy principles, doubleclick, approval, acquisition, action, thursday
 
 
 
 
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Focus on software assurance increases in U.S., U.K. and other markets

2007-11-15 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
I traveled quite a bit during the month of October - which was National Cyber Security Awareness month here in the U.S. - and there was one issue that came up frequently during my various business trips to locations around the U.S. and one to London: software assurance. It's really a continuation of a theme that I have come across during the...
 
Tags: security, information security, software assurance, government decision makers, product security, issue, systems, nefarious actors, business trips
 
 
 
 
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Study: Biggest businesses rely more on service providers for messaging security

2008-01-02 00:00:00 by Tim Greene in Network World on Security
 
More and more large businesses are turning to a combination of message-security services and on-site security appliances to guard against malicious behavior carried out via e-mail and other messaging software, a recent IDC study says
 
Tags: recent idc study, on-site security appliances, businesses, malicious behavior, combination, services, guard, e-mail, software
 
 
 
 
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Sears puts customers' buying histories on the Web

2008-01-04 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
Sears Holdings has come under fire from privacy advocates for making the purchase history of its customers publicly available on its Managemyhome.com Web site
 
Tags: purchase history, sears holdings, web site, customers publicly, fire, privacy, managemyhome
 
 
 
 
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Irongeek on Campus

2007-10-04 10:00:18 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
It's come to my attention that some Universities and other educational institutions are using my videos in their InfoSec classes. I think this is great, but I'd like to compile a list of such campuses . If your campus uses my videos, please send me an email with the institutions name and a link to their web site. So far Jackson Community College...
 
Tags: institutions, jackson community college, educational institutions, infosec classes, web site, videos, campus, list, link
 
 
 
 
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Cracking passwords on a PlayStation

2007-12-03 16:37:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
I remember making a joke not long ago about my kid sister attacking a password database using her Nintendo DS. Looks like the PS3 has an architecture that makes it especially well suited for this type of attack Security researcher Nick Breese used a PS3 to crack supposedly strong eight-character passwords in hours. Typically, previous attempts...
 
Tags: password, character password, key, password database, keyspace, 256-bit aes key, 40-bit keyspace, passwords, encryption
 
 
 
 
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New York Times Magazine on Electronic Voting Machines

2008-01-07 08:46:15 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Can You Count On These Machines
 
Tags: machines, count
 
 
 
 
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Spaf on Academic Security Research (... Silliness)

2007-12-20 13:07:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
Spaf also laments academic security research. He says : "As I write this , Im sitting in a review of some university research in cybersecurity. [...] What strikes me about these efforts representative of efforts by hundreds of people over decades, and the expenditure of perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars is that the vast majority of these...
 
Tags: security, worthwhile security, efforts representative, efforts, security economics, people, rigorous academic approach, academic research, dirt pile
 
 
 
 
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On Vacation

2007-12-27 10:15:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
Just a note: I won't be blogging until Jan 3rd since I am on vacation catching some snow. Response to blog comments will also be somewhat sluggish So, see you in 2008! Happy New Year About me: http://www.chuvakin.org
 
Tags: vacation, jan 3rd, blog comments, org, response, snow, note, happy, chuvakin
 
 
 
 
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Wisconsin state agency mailing exposes data on 260,000