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Justice, in one case at least

2008-01-31 16:48:08 by Ross Anderson in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...remarkably similar to that of John Munden, about whom I wrote here (and in my book here ). Like John, she worked for the police; like John, she complained to a bank about some ATM debits on her bank statement that she did not recognise; like John, she was arrested and suspended from work; like John, she faced a bank (in her case, Egg)...
 
 
 
 
 
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Third Parties Controlling Information

2008-02-27 05:46:46 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...remarkably valuable in saving bits and pieces of the internet. And recently, we've started seeing tools for archiving information and pages from social networking sites. But what's really important is the whole community, and we don't know which bits we want until they're no longer there And about Wine Therapy, I think it started in 2000. It...
 
 
 
 
 
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Two years after patch, another IE FTP flaw

2008-03-12 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A minor but pesky flaw that could allow attackers to steal or erase data from a victim's FTP site looks remarkably similar to one that Microsoft patched over a year and a half ago
 
 
 
 
 
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Apple issues mega-monster security update

2008-03-19 07:30:11 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Just a day after a remarkably large Safari update, Apple released a "frighteningly large" security update that patched nearly 90 vulnerabilities in both its own code and the third-party applications it bundles with its Tiger and Leopard operating systems
 
 
 
 
 
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1967 Article on Data Privacy and Security

2008-04-03 06:35:49 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
An eerily prescient article from The Atlantic in 1967 about the future of data privacy. It presents all of the basic arguments for strict controls on data collection of personal information, and it's remarkably accurate in it's predictions of the future development and importance of computers as well all of all of the ways the government would...
 
 
 
 
 
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Malicious microprocessor opens new doors for attack

2008-04-16 11:16:23 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A team of security researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign demonstrated on Tuesday a hack that, by compromising a remarkably small number of circuits on a microprocessor, gave them back-door access to the machine in which the chip was running. It's a lot of work to execute... for the moment
 
 
 
 
 
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The United Nations Serving Malware

The Article has images
2008-04-23 10:13:00 by HASH0x8b31c98 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...remarkably similar to the attack we saw earlier this month. When a user browses to a compromised site, the injected JavaScript loads a file named 1.js which is ho sted on http://www.nihao[removed].com The JavaScript code then redirects the user to 1.htm (also hosted on the same server). Once loaded, the file attempts 8 different exploits (the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Hacker posts Chilean government data on 6 million

2008-05-13 10:21:54 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Chile's remarkably lax data and privacy protections are in the spotlight as a hacker -- looking to do exactly that -- posts personal data on around six million Chileans
 
 
 
 
 
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Free Wi-Fi for AT&T Laptop Mobile Broadband Subscribers

2008-05-20 09:32:57 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...remarkably good track record for a rumor/leak site, so I'm inclined to believe their report
 
 
 
 
 
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Opinion: Better than locks: A security approach to "free"