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Effective Spyware and Adware Utilities

2007-08-01 19:28:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...protects your PC from thousands of potential spyware and adware programs proliferating the online world today A wide range of malicious trojans, keyloggers, spybots and tracking threats are put at bay with the Spyware Doctor. This is an adware and spyware removal utility that detects and cleans thousands of potential adware, trojans,...
 
Tags: effective spyware, effective, spyware, adware, adware utilities, potential spyware, spyware doctor, adware tools, potential adware
 
 
 
 
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Picasso Stolen from Brazilian Museum

2007-12-27 13:41:36 by Editor in Schneier on Security
 
A professional job: The thieves used a hydraulic car jack to pry their way past the pull-down metal gate that protects the museum's front entrance. Then, they smashed through two glass doors, probably using a crowbar, to get to the
 
Tags: hydraulic car jack, professional job, glass doors, front entrance, pull-down metal, museum, crowbar, pry, protects
 
 
 
 
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Protect your data: everything else is just plumbing

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2007-07-02 20:46:32 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
...protects documents by encrypting them. RMS-protected documents remain encrypted in storage and in transit. Theyre decrypted only after an authorized user has been authenticated and his or her permissions have been enforced. If someone outside the RMSs domain attempts to open a file, itll just appear as nonsense. Unless your computer is...
 
Tags: data security, comrms data security, data, security, confidential information, information, information security, temporary data, data vanishes
 
 
 
 
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What Does SHA1 is Broken Mean?

2007-12-12 07:35:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...protects the hash against brute force attacks. It does nothing to protect a user who chooses a poor password A system is only as strong as its weakest link Eric Marvets
 
Tags: sha1, choose sha1, sha1 protects, hash data, data, sha1 drops, hash function, hash, function
 
 
 
 
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OMG, This is Funny: BullshIT Awards :-)

2008-01-15 23:31:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...protects the data today and tomorrow as the infrastructure changes." (#3) and of course his old fave "Theyre not related. Theres no relationship to our funding and our research and development cycle." (#1 About me: http://www.chuvakin.org
 
Tags: nick selby delivers, extensive security framework, development cycle, bullsit awards, tech-flack quotes, origination space, relationship, research, protects
 
 
 
 
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J.C. Penney customers affected by lost GE Money backup tape

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2008-01-18 10:24:59 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...protects from credit card fraud (on this card anyway), sends a message to J.C. Penney that they should do more to monitor partners' and vendors' business and security practices, and sends a message to GE Money that they must encrypt confidential data at rest (potentially among other things Commentary We originally reported this breach on the...
 
Tags: penney, penney customers, tape, backup tape, money, sensitive personal information, personal information, penney card immediately, information security practices
 
 
 
 
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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
 
...protects the security of our software ecosystem would be for vulnerability finders to contract directly with the vendor to find vulnerabilities. Customers of the vendor could get high level summary information that the vulnerability exists and its type so they could weigh the risks of using the product and the vendor would get the details...
 
Tags: vulnerability finders, vulnerability, vulnerability exists, heap overflow vulnerability, gleg realplayer vulnerability, gleg customer, customer, gleg, exploit code
 
 
 
 
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Encryption defeated, still an advocate?

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2008-02-22 16:15:15 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...protects against everything. We are never 100% secure will all technologies, let alone one. Security is a holistic discipline that is about defense in depth, continual analysis and improvement, systems and backup systems, threats, countermeasures, etc. etc. This is just another attack vector that wasn't widely known or accepted until now. I...
 
Tags: encryption, disk encryption software, encryption software, information security field, information, hard drive encryption, disk encryption, text information, encryption keys
 
 
 
 
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Burglary at Milwaukee tax & accounting firm exposes 600

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2008-02-27 16:36:49 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...protects client information. I was surprised by how little they do and how freely confidential information flowed into, within, and out of his company. I found it ironic that his company often conducted SAS 70 (not that SAS 70 attests to any real level of security) audits too The notification was lightning fast. The breach occurred on 2/21...
 
Tags: breach description, breach, data breach page, security breach, data, sensitive personal information, information, data breach, kurt bischoff tax
 
 
 
 
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Security Mike Update: QuickTime 0day attack

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2007-11-30 10:28:00 by Mike Rothman in Security Mike's Blog
...protects against the QT attack, but there are exceptions Once again, thinking before you click is a good thing to do