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Fuzz Testing at Microsoft and the Triage Process

2007-09-20 18:52:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...recover from pretty much any exception that could be generated and continue operating as if nothing had occurred (Read more about it at http://blogs.msdn.com/sdl/archive/2007/04/26/lessons-learned-from-the-animated-cursor-security-bug.aspx The Animated Cursor bug caused us to revisit our mini-debugger. Why? Put simply, we hadn't introduced...
 
Tags: chance exceptions, exceptions, exception handler, exception, divide-by-zero exception, exception code, triage process, process, first-chance exceptions
 
 
 
 
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Stolen laptop contained Centocor speaker-consultant information

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2008-01-29 11:08:47 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...recover the missing assets and your information Evan] It is important to remember that information is not like most physical assets. Once information confidentiality has been compromised, you can't "recover" it. You can't disclose a secret and then make it secret again. Nonsense Commentary I know for a fact that Johnson & Johnson runs a...
 
Tags: centocor, information, evan centocor, evan, time centocor, centocor facilities, facilities, centocor laptops, laptops
 
 
 
 
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Email Hacking Going Commercial - Part Two

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2008-08-08 14:31:54 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...recovery services Hacking as a Service sites seems to be popping out like mushrooms these days, thanks primarily due to the fact that yesterday's script kiddies are today's entrepreneurs trying to even monetize the process of bruteforcing. Here's their pitch Well.. There is nothing different in our services. Like other group, we simply...
 
Tags: crack password, crack, crack email password, email password, password, original password, current password, password retrieval, email
 
 
 
 
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268,000 donors exposed through stolen Memorial Blood Centers laptop

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2007-12-06 14:09:42 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...recover the laptop computer Access to the donor information on the laptop is protected by multiple levels of passwords and requires the use of other technologies to prevent unauthorized use. The donor records do not contain medical information Comfyllama] Multiple levels of passwords means little more than a nuisance to anyone with even...
 
Tags: donors, blood, security, security cameras, store social security, memorial blood centers, donors social security, breach description, blood components
 
 
 
 
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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
...recovery classifications. How quickly, in the event of a disaster, will you need to recover certain kinds of data? Are employees allowed to store mission-critical information on home computers or portable devices? Heres a sample recovery classification: for mission-critical data, immediate recovery; for urgent data, recovery within 72 hours;...
 
Tags: data security, comrms data security, data, security, confidential information, information, information security, temporary data, data vanishes
 
 
 
 
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D.C. government works to recover from online porn debacle

2008-01-25 00:00:00 by Brad Reed in Network World on Security
 
After firing nine government employees for visiting "an egregious amount" of pornographic websites, the District of Columbia announced this week that it has implemented a filtering scheme that would screen porn on all government computers
 
Tags: government computers, pornographic websites, government employees, egregious amount, porn, district, week, scheme, columbia
 
 
 
 
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Stolen Salesforce.com unencrypted external storage device

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2008-02-12 13:32:40 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...recover the stolen device Evan] I suppose recovery could happen, but I'm not holding my breath We take our obligation to safeguard your personal information very seriously, and are working to further enhance our data security practices to prevent this type of event from reoccurring Evan] I see this same (or very similar) remark in almost all...
 
Tags: external storage device, storage device, sensitive personal information, personal information, device, personal information includes, information, salesforce, data
 
 
 
 
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Employee fraud at Tenet Healthcare affects 37,000

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2008-02-18 10:26:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...recover from identity theft was 607 hours He had passed a background check to get the Tenet job. Brooks was immediately fired when the company learned of his arrest What's challenging in this situation is there was an employee intent on committing fraud," Campanini said. "No company can prevent that, but we can have practices in place to...
 
Tags: tenet, require, require social security, security, tenet healthcare corp, employee fraud, fraud, letters, tenet notification letters
 
 
 
 
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Disk-Encryption Security Flaw Revealed: Not 'Minor'

2008-02-21 05:00:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
Princeton and EFF researchers demonstrate they can recover an encryption key from RAM after a computer has gone into standby mode, and even after a few minutes without power
 
Tags: standby mode, eff researchers, encryption key, recover, princeton, minutes, power, computer, ram