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Report: IRS information security still poor

2008-01-08 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service continues to have "pervasive" information security weaknesses that put taxpayer information at risk, and it has made limited progress in fixing dozens of problems the U.S. Government Accountability Office has previously identified, according to a GAO report released Tuesday
 
Tags: information security weaknesses, government accountability office, gao report, taxpayer information, progress, pervasive, tuesday, previously, dozens
 
 
 
 
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Hacking Medical Devices

2008-03-12 10:39:59 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Pervasive Computing, January 2008 Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses ," Daniel Halperin, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Benjamin Ransford, Shane S. Clark, Benessa Defend, Will Morgan, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno, and William H. Maisel, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2008...
 
Tags: devices, security, malicious security attack, cardiac, security risks, dangerous cardiac events, risks, icd incapable, icd
 
 
 
 
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Banning function calls, assurance, and retrofitting

2008-03-18 19:48:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...pervasive, you're going to spend almost as much verifying the defect as fixing it. Especially if you're going through and simply replacing strcpy() with strlcpy() for example. For both this and the case above though, developers are going to be going through the code, and with the proper training/awareness, they might actually learn more about...
 
Tags: code review experience, code, security sensitive context, context, security critical context, unsafe context, static analyzer, file defects, rand
 
 
 
 
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The War on Photography

2008-06-05 06:44:54 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...pervasive conventional wisdom that terrorists photograph their targets? Why are our fears so great that we have no choice but to be suspicious of any photographer Because it's a movie-plot threat A movie-plot threat is a specific threat, vivid in our minds like the plot of a movie. You remember them from the months after the 9/11 attacks:...
 
Tags: movie, movie-plot security, terrorists, imagine terrorists, terrorists bomb, movie-plot terrorists, dix terrorists, movie-plot threats uniquely, wannabe terrorists
 
 
 
 
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The Pros and Cons of LifeLock

2008-06-12 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...pervasive problem. The Federal Trade Commission reported that 8.3 million Americans were identity-theft victims in 2005. But that includes things like someone stealing your credit card and using it, something that rarely costs you any money and that LifeLock doesn't protect against. New account fraud is much less common, affecting 1.8 million...
 
Tags: credit reports, credit, credit card, fraud alerts permanent, fraud, credit industry, experian credit bureau, lifelock, issue credit
 
 
 
 
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LifeLock and Identity Theft

2008-06-17 06:51:25 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...pervasive problem. The Federal Trade Commission reported that 8.3 million Americans were identity-theft victims in 2005. But that includes things like someone stealing your credit card and using it, something that rarely costs you any money and that LifeLock doesn't protect against. New account fraud is much less common, affecting 1.8 million...
 
Tags: identity theft, credit reports, credit, identity, credit card, fraud alerts permanent, fraud, credit industry, experian credit bureau
 
 
 
 
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A Hot Cloudless Computing Day in Florida

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2008-06-24 19:46:12 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
...pervasive (anywhere, anytime response time expectations are shrinking relationships are online and short-lived Tom Bittman shared a view of the evolution of the data center from Silos to Clouds. Prior to about 2002, data centers were sprawled siloed organizations focused on component management. Over time, hardware cost went down, flexibility...
 
Tags: gartner, gartner counterpoint, cloud, ecco cloud, gartner predictions, 8am versus 10am, infrastructure services, time, services
 
 
 
 
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Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on SOA Security

2008-07-14 13:40:01 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...pervasive issue. If you think REST+SSL is a security architecture then you should consider what threats you are choosing *not* to deal with Also, Arnon articulated what I call the gateway vulnerability problem. SOA, Web services, REST et al are fundamentally gateway, interoperability focused technologies. And they are for the most part,...
 
Tags: soa, soa security, security, services, web services security, web services, security standpoint, arnon, gateway
 
 
 
 
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Upping The IPS Ante

2008-07-30 15:14:48 by John Kindervag in Security & Risk Management
 
...pervasive, moving toward covering the entire physical environment, and more employees are relying on Wi-Fi to access corporate data and applications, it's high-time to secure the WLAN In the case of Motorola, the Wi-Fi network is especially critical. As the vendor embarks on selling its message of the all-wireless enterprise , where WLANs...
 
Tags: security, address security, security lens, data security standard, data, wi-fi, wi-fi network, network, wireless security
 
 
 
 
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Monitoring P2P Networks

2008-08-22 12:08:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...pervasive monitoring in P2P file sharing networks Webpage on the research
 
Tags: network, describe simple techniques, networks, techniques, p2p file, arbitrary network endpoints, dmca takedown notice, popular bittorrent file, real dmca complaints