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Long Island Proposal Snags Again, on Poles

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2008-07-28 11:07:26 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...placement, but instead must pay the all-comer rate of $50 per year This is a critical distinction. Telecoms are covered under the Telecom Act of 1996 that requires non-discriminatory access to utility poles to avoid incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) and utilities from being gatekeepers that prevent competitive service from emerging....
 
Tags: telecom act, telecom act deal, telecom, proposal, island proposal, e-path, networks, represents e-path, municipal networks
 
 
 
 
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Off the wire: Online advertising vs. personal privacy

2007-12-28 00:18:42 by Editor in Help Net Security - News
 
Google cleared an important regulatory hurdle when the Federal Trade Commission last week approved its $3.1 billion merger with ad placement giant DoubleClick, but congressional hearings on privacy ar
 
Tags: placement giant doubleclick, federal trade commission, congressional hearings, billion merger, regulatory hurdle, privacy, google, week
 
 
 
 
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Is Security about improving the operational efficiency of IT?

2007-12-20 12:40:00 by Ryan Shopp in practical risk management
 
...placement and priority given to Security/Risk/Compliance Management versus the overall purpose of the business Take a look at the survey and please throw down in the comments what you found interesting
 
Tags: operational efficiency, security, information, information security, major cost savings, development organization, management versus, role, customer satisfaction
 
 
 
 
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Central Bank of the UAE reports ATM fraud to lenders

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2008-03-03 11:41:37 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...placement of a fake card reader over the regular card reader in an ATM, which reads and records the data from the card's magnetic strip, while either a hidden camera or a nearby observer, known as a shoulder surfer', steals the PIN The stolen details can then be used to create fake cards or make purchases online, or the data may be sold on...
 
Tags: bank card details, card details, bank, bank card, atm, regular card reader, reader, customers, bank customers
 
 
 
 
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ZDNet Asia and TorrentReactor IFRAME-ed

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2008-03-04 09:15:20 by HASH0x8b3f7c8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...placement on search engines, they can pretty much shift the SEO campaign to a malware campaign by taking advantage of "event-based social engineering
 
Tags: iframe, zdnet asia, pages, pages redirect, iframe-ed pages, torrentreactor, iframe-ing tactic remains, seo practices, torrentreactor seo practices
 
 
 
 
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OnStar Offers a Model for IT Security

2008-03-07 11:08:35 by Posted By: John Pescatore, VP Distinguished Analyst in IT Leaders - Security and Risk Management
 
...placement of a security-related service in the larger context of customer safety really hits home on a larger point: Security and, just as importantly, safety need to be worked into all the critical business and IT processes at your business. The biggest bang for the buck comes from avoiding incidents - minimizing vulnerabilities in...
 
Tags: processes, critical business processes, onstar, critical business, crash, remote safety, crash scene, safety, auto safety
 
 
 
 
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Communicating about risk - part 2

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2008-05-20 16:22:24 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is
...placement will vary because each part of the enterprise will have its own risk tolerance. A critical loss at the subsidiary level might not equate to a rounding error at the enterprise level. Ive dealt with this by plotting results on two charts; one scaled to the enterprise risk tolerance, and another drawn to the subsidiarys tolerance Of...
 
Tags: risk, managements risk tolerance, enterprise risk tolerance, risk tolerance, likelihood, risk analysis, likelihood connotes, lines, likelihood statement refer
 
 
 
 
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"Interesting" Advert Placements On Facebook

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2008-07-03 18:45:10 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...placement of the fake "Continue" button? Is it the creator of the application, or is it legitimate advertising space on Facebook being subverted in a rather creative fashion by an advertising agency promoting IAC products I've tried reinstalling the application a few times, and the graphic displayed sometimes changes to more overt "this is...
 
Tags: facebook, application install, application, standard facebook, network, facebook network completely, applications, facebook applications, application loose
 
 
 
 
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Strange Digg.com Spamming

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2008-08-06 07:51:10 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...placement script Normally spam = profit. Here though, I can't see that this follows the usual pattern. Perhaps someone woke up feeling philanthropic and randomly decided the best course of action for Digg.com users was watching hundreds of postage-stamp sized clips of semi-naked females We can tell them off for spamming Digg though, so...
 
Tags: page, page streams, video site, site, on-site, webcam site, digg, enlarge, click
 
 
 
 
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A Costly Crush

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2008-09-02 15:24:54 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...placements with regards another facebook application. It seems we have a similar situation here, where an "enterprising" Ad network is placing Facebook-style buttons onto installer pages and hoping people will be fooled. As it turns out, it seems to be working. While attempting to install one randomly selected Crush applicatio