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House committee issues report and finds fault with TSA web site

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2008-01-15 09:35:53 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...properly certified. These deficiencies exposed thousands of American travelers to potential identity theft Reference URL The official Committee on Oversight and Government Reform report The CSO Online Story Report Credit The United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and special credit to Chris...
 
Tags: tsa, website, website contract, traveler redress website, tsa moved quickly, security breach, information security breach, security vulnerabilities, multiple security vulnerabilities
 
 
 
 
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Visa Services Northwest caught throwing info in dumpster

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2008-01-28 16:23:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...properly. Then he shreds the sensitive documents and recycles the rest Obviously, we accidentally dumped that particular file in the recycle bin," he said Even so, Ding said, the documents are safe in the bin since the business is located on an upper floor of the building where the public doesn't typically visit Evan] Does anyone else see...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, visa services, confidential information, sensitive information, gillett, steve gillett, credit card information
 
 
 
 
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Inspector General claims the Park Police are plagued by low morale

2008-02-10 06:46:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...properly protecting the Nation's monuments. Even the Fraternal order of Police have appealed for management changes and describe the agency as a "mess A Union survey found that only 2.2% of respondents had confidence in the Chief, Dwight E. Pettiford. When Chief Pettiford was asked about the failure of his officers to properly protect the...
 
Tags: police, park police, chief pettiford, pettiford, properly protect, monuments, properly, chief, inspector
 
 
 
 
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Evaluating And Protecting Yourself From The Cold-Boot Encryption Attack

2008-02-25 19:47:24 by rmogull in securosis.com
 
...properly), but when you need constant access to data the key is kept in memory. This is nearly ubiquitous for full-disk encryption or file encryption systems that leave files open for read/write operations. Its not something we worried about, because when you turn a computer off the RAM (memory for the non geeks) loses power and anything...
 
Tags: disk, full-disk encryption, encryption, disk encryption, systems, file encryption systems, encryption system, file encryption, tools
 
 
 
 
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We Dont Need No Education

2008-03-14 14:03:23 by dmortman in securosis.com
 
...Properly training finance staff can also help detect abuse and embezzlement The above are examples of areas that could benefit from specific security training, and are areas where most enterprises could easily benefit. It is also worth noting that a properly implemented security awareness training program will not only provide company HR...
 
Tags: information offsite, information, confidential information, security awareness program5, awareness, information security, security, security threat, group-specific security
 
 
 
 
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More from Securiosis...

2008-03-14 08:29:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
...properly enforce Information Security properly
 
Tags: business, business solution, process, formal process design, information, information security, sustainable business processes, effectively leverage people, secure
 
 
 
 
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Tactical Forensics Platform

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2008-04-24 19:49:00 by Richard Bejtlich in TaoSecurity
...properly into Linux. I needed to implement a similar fix for Windows. I'll show what the result was shortly. I made the changes to GRUB permanently before going to the next step Finally I installed FreeBSD 7.0, which saw the remaining 447 GB HDD as /dev/da0 and the other HDDs as /dev/ad4 and /dev/ad6. I didn't touch /dev/ad4 or /dev/ad6 but...
 
Tags: windows, title microsoft windows, linux, linux swap, linux forensics software, forensics, freebsd, title freebsd, single
 
 
 
 
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Personal information found in Boca Raton dumpsters

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2008-06-10 10:24:10 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...properly all the documents have since been shredded Wheeler says from now on, he will shred all unneeded documents Victim Reaction I'm taken aback; I really almost shaking. The fact that records could be around for all these years It shouldn't have been available to anybody, but nobody has done anything It's very frightening to think of...
 
Tags: information, personal information, boca raton, dumpster, boca raton dumpster, confidential information, files, personal files, owner charles wheeler
 
 
 
 
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PCI compliance, building the base

2008-06-12 11:54:22 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...properly and are locked down through processes and technologies. Then they build a fence of security around the systems to ensure only properly authorized personnel have access to them. Finally they certify that the protections meet PCI compliance requirements. But unlike the military, I theorize that a lot of SMBs, short on personnel and...
 
Tags: pci compliance, pci compliance requirements, military, top secret information, military branch, information, guard, guard houses, data
 
 
 
 
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Security Between Virtual Machines?

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2008-06-22 15:30:57 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...properly. A Form field is something you fill out on a web page like a form that asks for the user name and password. User names and passwords to log into the web site are stored on whats called a Database Server. Hmmm... So this means the web server needs to talk to the database server right? Yes! Keep this in the back of our head for now....