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HIPAA Growing Teeth, Round II?

2008-01-22 13:44:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
Half a year after round one of " HIPAA Growing Teeth " we proudly give you: round deux Specifially, " CMS to check hospitals for HIPAA security compliance " paper claims that " The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin on-site reviews of hospitals compliance with security rules mandated by the Health Insurance Portability...
 
Tags: hipaa, round, hipaa security compliance, teeth, kick, health insurance portability, round deux, insecure healthcare ass, guys kick
 
 
 
 
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Blue Box podcast #70 successfully recorded... on *conference WiFi*!

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2007-11-07 21:52:46 by HASH0x84726ec in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
I'm delighted to report that Jonathan and I successfully recorded Blue Box #70 this morning. It was a bit surreal, actually. There I was at the Javits Center in a vacant room on conference WiFi and Jonathan's audio quality was outstanding ! In fact, when I listened to the recording afterward his audio sounded far better than my audio that was...
 
Tags: conference wifi, audio quality, quality, interop, interop noc team, audio, blue box, 200-300ms round trip, jonathan
 
 
 
 
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Zango's in your Face(book)

2008-01-03 21:23:00 by Russ McRee in HolisticInfoSec.org
 
The Zangonistas are at it again, this time deftly disguising their "software" as a Facebook Widget. Fortinet, who discovered the issue, discusses the "Secret Crush" widget at length, so no need to repeat their extensive effort Instead, I'd like to offer a bit of analysis, then invoke a debate ANALYSIS I ran Setup.exe, as found in...
 
Tags: 41996b regopenkeyexa, hkey local, hkey local machinesoftware, zango, software installation programs, software, software installation, user knowingly installs, analysis
 
 
 
 
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Spring ISD mobile devices stolen along with personal student information

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2008-05-18 23:01:44 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 5/16/08 Organization Spring Independent School District ("Spring ISD Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Students Number Affected 8,000 Types of Data personal information, including name, social security number or state-assigned identification number, gender, name of school, grade and...
 
Tags: information, students personal information, personal information, isd, students, individual students, isd laptop computer, external flash drive, drive
 
 
 
 
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IT and Compliance: 10 Big Predictions for 2008

2008-01-02 08:00:00 by Editor in IT Compliance
 
Service-oriented IT processes and technologies will help managers bring the enterprise into line in 2008perhaps not a moment too soon. We can't shake the feeling that something big and very bad is lurking 'round the corner. Grab a security blanket and carefully read on for the hopes and horrors of 2008
 
Tags: security blanket, enterprise, technologies, round, processes, horrors, 2008perhaps, bad, moment
 
 
 
 
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Supporting Complex Passwords

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2007-12-04 08:56:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
It's ironic that only yesterday I posted about the dangers of using passwords for encryption. Well this morning another "feature" of passwords hit me square in the forehead. I tried to activate Windows Live OneCare (I've decided to give their family safety feature a try to limit where my little ones can surf on the net). Here's what I got when I...
 
Tags: passwords, complex passwords, complex, passwords hit, password temporarily, temporarily, password, strong passwords, password minder
 
 
 
 
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Phishers, Spammers, and Malware Authors Clearly Consolidating

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2007-12-09 21:14:53 by HASH0x89fa6a4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
In a recent article entitled " Popular Spammers Strategies and Tactics " I emphasized on the consolidation that's been going on between phishers, spammers and malware authors for a while The allure of being self-sufficient doesnt seem to be a relevant one when it comes to a spammers results oriented attitude. Spammers excel at harvesting and...
 
Tags: malware, malware attachments, malware attack, malware authors, hand malware authors, spammers, modern malware, storm worm malware, emails courtesy
 
 
 
 
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Network Solutions Frontrunning And Tasting, Version 1.1

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2008-01-09 22:21:14 by Editor in Cheap Hack
After a round of bad publicity they had to be unhappy with, Network Solutions has announced modifications to their domain "protection" scheme . Under this new feature, about which I wrote extensively earlier today, they registered any available domain name you search for using their facilities. They did this purportedly to protect you from...
 
Tags: network solutions, domain names resolve, names, network solutions grab, protection, customer protection measure, resolve, domain, home page
 
 
 
 
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LogLogic lands $13.5M in funding

2008-02-08 00:00:00 by Denise Dubie in Network World on Security
 
LogLogic brings total investment to $47.7 million with $13.5 Series D round Infrastructure Staffing Services for your company Advertisement TEKsystems contract employees are highly skilled in all areas of IT infrastructure. Contact us today
 
Tags: teksystems contract employees, infrastructure, advertisement, services, round, contact, series, million, company