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Vote but Verify

2007-09-07 19:56:11 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...representatives. Codifying the well-understood voter-verified paper audit trail as a requirement puts an immediate crimp in the shopping spree for fancy-looking machines that are rotten inside - a shopping spree that will continue if this law isnt passed, creating an ever-larger lump of sunk investment in pretty bad technology A paper audit...
 
Tags: all-electronic systems, systems, all-electronic, paper audit trail, all-electronic paperless approaches, security geek consensus, research topic, consensus, nist
 
 
 
 
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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
...Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform report titled INFORMATION SECURITY BREACH AT TSA: THE TRAVELER REDRESS WEBSITE In October 2006, the Transportation Security Administration launched a website to help travelers whose names were erroneously listed on airline watch lists. This redress website had multiple security...
 
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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Some Yahoo! employees exposed through mistaken email

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2007-12-12 15:11:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...representatives have not adequately addressed your concerns, please let us know by emailing stockadmin@yahoo-inc.com Commentary It sounds like this is a human error. Information security breaches resulting from human error are one of the most (if not the most) challenging to protect against. Us humans often have other things on our mind. It...
 
Tags: fidelity investments, fidelity, fidelity inadvertently, fidelity investments client, email, fidelity investments inadvertently, yahoo, administrator, email administrator
 
 
 
 
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U.S. House Passes Resolution on Cyber Security

2007-10-19 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...Representatives passed a resolution this week recognizing the importance of the issue. The resolution, H. RES. 716, was introduced by Congressman Jim Langevin (D-RI) with strong bi-partisan support. The purpose of the Resolution was for: "Expressing the sense of Congress with respect to raising awareness and enhancing the state of computer...
 
Tags: resolution, strong bi-partisan support, cyber security continue, congressman jim langevin, cyber vulnerabilities, house, computer security, public sector, critical infrastructures
 
 
 
 
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IT Industry to Congress: Help Needed to Fight Cyber-crime

2007-10-16 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...representatives. Art Coviello, President of RSA, The Security Division of EMC, delivered the industry keynote; U.S. Representative Steve Chabot (R-OH) provided remarks from a congressional perspective. Congressman Chabot is a co-sponsor of H.R. 2290, the Cyber Security and Enhancement Act of 2007, along with U.S. Representative Adam Schiff...
 
Tags: malicious botnet attacks, business software alliance, representative adam schiff, representative steve chabot, art coviello, october 16th, cyber security, industry keynote, media representatives
 
 
 
 
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Ask the Auditor: Who is Responsible for Information Security?

2007-12-29 06:24:50 by Editor in Security Links
 
...Representatives. Its publications include CISWGThe Final Report of the Best Practices and Metrics Teams (PDF CISWGInformation Security Management References(PDF 3. Executive Guide: Information Security Management: Learning From Leading Organizations 4. Microsofts Security Risk Management Guide 5. The International Systems Security Engineering...
 
Tags: information, information security, information policy, information security risks, information assurance, information security governance, information security managers, information security management, assign information security
 
 
 
 
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Symantec: Gov't needs to take new cybersecurity steps

2008-01-07 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
U.S. government agencies need to take additional steps to protect against cybersecurity problems after a series of congressional hearings and reports exposed several weaknesses in 2007, representatives of Symantec said
 
Tags: symantec, additional steps, government agencies, cybersecurity, congressional hearings, weaknesses, protect, series, representatives
 
 
 
 
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Oldham Primary Care Trust NHS loses two data sticks

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2008-01-11 17:15:40 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...representatives, personally. We have made personal contact with 145, and offered to visit them. We are waiting for three to get back to us after several attempts to contact them We have followed up the contacts in writing with our sincere apologies, and have set up a dedicated freephone information line for those who may have further...
 
Tags: information, information lost, personal information, financial information, medical information, information security, data, freephone information line, data sticks
 
 
 
 
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More trustworthy election systems via SDL?

2008-02-04 23:34:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...representatives to govern us, voting systems are a great place to step up both in the context of the computing industry, and to better serve society I believe many of the issues found in these voting systems would not have entered the system if the SDL was used to design and build the voting systems
 
Tags: machine security concerns, security concerns, election systems, election, security, security researchers, election systems margin, margin, election management system
 
 
 
 
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Fraud on the Target Visa call center

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2008-02-08 15:32:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Representatives will be available seven days a week from 6.00am to 10:00pm (CST) to respond to your questions Evan] This time you will not get a criminal Commentary I can only imagine that this type of fraud happens more often that we think. There is no mention of how the Target Fraud Prevention Team "became aware" of the suspect activity...
 
Tags: call, target, call center employees, accounts, target visa accounts, call center, call center assistance, employees, target national bank