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Personal information stolen from Georgia DHR

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2008-03-27 15:51:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...proactively alerted the three credit bureaus about the situation Evan] Using "proactively" is interesting. This seems more reactive to me DHR has instituted a new directive which requires password protection on jump and flash drives and portable computer media that contains personnel information Evan] So what? What about encryption? I am...
 
Tags: georgia dhr, dhr, georgia, information, agency, agency urges employees, georgia law, georgia department, employees
 
 
 
 
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Ask the Auditor: Who is Responsible for Information Security?

2007-12-29 06:24:50 by Editor in Security Links
 
...Proactively studying whats new is a fundamental requirement for implementing and auditing information security effectively. Landmark guidance is issued every few years. These classics offer important knowledge relevant to all security stakeholders. The following list represents several classics, as well as some very new information, from a...
 
Tags: information, information security, information policy, information security risks, information assurance, information security governance, information security managers, information security management, assign information security
 
 
 
 
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Lessons from the Ft. Dix Terrorist Plotters

2008-01-04 06:53:07 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Good article about the Ft. Dix terrorist plotters: the challenges of going after terrorism more proactively, and the risks of using informants I wrote about some of these issues here
 
Tags: dix terrorist plotters, issues, risks, challenges, informants, article, proactively, terrorism
 
 
 
 
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Have Your Malware In a Timely Fashion

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2007-12-15 08:35:11 by HASH0x89f6724 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...proactively anticipating the rush of visitors to the site. Another such recent combination of tactics aimed to increase the lifecycle of the malware embedded attack by embedding it at Chinese Internet Security Response Team's site during the China's "Golden Week" holiday According to McAfee " Web Site of the French Embassy in Libya Under...
 
Tags: malware, attack, malware attack, malware downloaders, media malware gang, loads, web site, site, php
 
 
 
 
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The High Price of Things that are Free

2007-08-01 19:26:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...proactively preventing new spyware and adware from infecting your system The other type of protection provided by free spyware and adware programs is the detection and eradication of existing spyware and adware that is already installed in your computer. Not all free spyware and adware protection programs are created equal. Some of the free...
 
Tags: free, adware protection, adware, free items, secure free spyware, adware protection programs, free programs, spyware, spyware programs
 
 
 
 
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Combating Computer

2007-08-01 19:16:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...proactively by preventing future accidental installation of these nuisances Adware and spyware cleaners work like your anti virus programs except that these particular cleaners target adware and spyware.Considering the trouble adware and spyware creators take to ensure that extracting installed adware and spyware from your computer system...
 
Tags: personal computer system, system, computer, spyware, anti spyware program, spyware creators, spyware cleaners, computer system, adware
 
 
 
 
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What If All Vulnerabilities Had This Disclosure Timeline?

2008-02-07 02:08:33 by Chris Wysopal in Zero in a bit
 
...proactively start doing security testing within their SDLC. A vendor cant bluff their way out of a comprehensive code assessment like they can from just a single (or a few) vulnerabilities publicly reported. If their code is full of vulnerabilities their customers will know UPDATE 2/09/08: It seems the RealPlayer vulnerability being used in...
 
Tags: vulnerability finders, vulnerability, vulnerability exists, heap overflow vulnerability, gleg realplayer vulnerability, gleg customer, customer, gleg, exploit code
 
 
 
 
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The crystal (now with no lead!) ball of security predictions..

2007-12-10 15:48:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...proactively I also read Rich Mogull's framework for predictions - I see this to be similar for all IT investments, not just for security 1. Hard dollar investments since I am losing money or can' make money 2. Somewhat hard dollars since my customer is losing money or I may lose money 3. Soft dollars - some costs may be avoided and I might...
 
Tags: predictions, money, investments, hard dollar investments, security, core technology, fair share, core skills, soft dollars
 
 
 
 
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"Crawling" Toward SDL

2008-03-06 22:13:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...proactively bolstered to address externally reported vulnerabilities. The knowledge you harvest from these security incidents (typically through root cause analysis) is the primary way to improve your code and security tooling for the future. Do everything you can to learn lessons from the vulnerabilities others find. If you dont have a...
 
Tags: sdl, security, perform security analysis, application security, application, applications security, security issues, issues, non-microsoft sdl engagements
 
 
 
 
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A Portfolio of Fake Video Codecs

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2008-03-19 17:27:56 by HASH0x8b5b564 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...proactively detecting the output of the many other malware campaigns to come, which will inevitable be ending up to these very same domains