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Best practices for avoiding the trap

2008-07-12 16:31:48 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...receives an email from a friend about an event he saw on the news today, and it looks legitimate. An executive receives an email about a corporate financial review, and it too looks legitimate
 
Tags: email, email addresses, email address book, social, executive receives, unknown source, executive, unknown, trap
 
 
 
 
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New Year's Resolutions for choosing online retailers

2007-12-20 09:31:28 by Andras Cser in Security & Risk Management
 
...receives a secondary one time password in a text message or callback to their registered cell phone Vendors: Authentify Technology, Digital Envoy, RSA Security/PassMark Software, Swivel Secure Device fingerprint (inexpensive, low to medium level of security, low user inconvenience Upon login, the users desktop software, hardware and browser...
 
Tags: user inconvenience, low user inconvenience, users desktop, users desktop software, software, medium user inconvenience, low, imagic software, user
 
 
 
 
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Introducing Google's online security efforts

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2007-05-21 09:43:00 by A Googler in Google Online Security Blog
...receives the latest security patches as they are published. We also recommend that you run an anti-virus engine that checks network traffic and files on your computer for known malware and abnormal behavior. If you want to be really sure that your system does not become permanently compromised, you might even want to run your browser in a...
 
Tags: activity, malware activity, web servers, servers, malware, anti- malware effort, malware distribution servers, sites, web sites
 
 
 
 
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Five stolen Florida Department of Children and Families laptops

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2008-01-04 10:12:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...receives notice from the law enforcement agency that the notification will not compromise the investigation If a person discovers circumstances requiring notification pursuant to this section of more than 1,000 persons at a single time, the person shall also notify, without unreasonable delay, all consumer reporting agencies that compile and...
 
Tags: agency, law enforcement agency, law, confidential information, information, confidential personal information, law enforcement led, laptops, sensitive personal information
 
 
 
 
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Rampant FBI Abuse of Power Now Paperwork Free

2007-03-20 23:53:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...receives data without a single sheet of paperwork Anyone see how this could be abused? Forget judicial oversight, now they dont even have agency oversight Sickening
 
Tags: fbi, paperwork, fbi suspects, improper paperwork, data, receives data, fbi improperly, file follow-up paperwork, counsel directs agents
 
 
 
 
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MDAC ActiveX Code Execution Exploit Still in the Wild

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2007-12-05 12:08:56 by HASH0x89e6630 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...receives, the more useless it will get, given more people will patch. That's such a wishful thinking, one the people behind Storm Worm apparently perceived as FUD-ish one, and by not following it , ended up with operating the largest botnet known for the time being - a botnet that was built on the foundations of outdated vulnerabilities...
 
Tags: exploit, day, day vulnerabilities, htm, malware, malware exploitation kit, single exploit urls, vulnerabilities, storm worm apparently
 
 
 
 
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Theft from vendor affects Modesto City Schools employees

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2008-02-12 15:03:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...receives employee information is sent Evan] Excellent addition to their practices. Vendors and contractors are extensions of the organization Wed certainly be taking that up with Systematic Automation," he said. Employees with concerns can contact Louise Baker, supervisor of payroll and benefits, at 576-4192 Victim Reaction There are a lot...
 
Tags: district officials, district, district employees, school district, school district employees, employees, sensitive personal information, information, provide information
 
 
 
 
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Clovis Unified School District employees receive notice

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2008-02-21 01:57:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...receives Evan] Might need to change "handles" to "handled". I wonder how this single breach affects Systematic Automation's business viability The police believe the computers contained tens of thousands of pieces of information Commentary What is there to say that hasn't already been said in the two previous postings? Did any of the 15...
 
Tags: district, district employees, school district, district management, school district vendor, school district employees, employees, sensitive personal information, personal information
 
 
 
 
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Blue Box #77: Skype security vulnerability, German gov't looks at trojans, undersea cable cuts, Microsoft and Yahoo, VoIP security news and more

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2008-03-25 16:13:35 by HASH0x8b64014 in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
...Receives Thirteenth Patent Thomas Porters 2006 Practical VoIP Security book now available as a free download such as this Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo tons of coverage interesting piece on ZDNet about Googles response Review of the last week's traffic on the VOIPSEC public mailing list Wrap-up of the show 36:19 - End of show Comments,...
 
Tags: security, skype security vulnerability, vulnerability, voip security news, voip security professional, listener comment line, comment line, podcast, 36-minute podcast