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Scary World Ahead?!

2008-01-16 19:54:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...scary, scary speed I predicted that "Loss of trust towards legitimate Internet sites = yes . This is manifested by things like this point by the WS guys - more 0wned than malicious sites are used to spread malware. Even now I shudder from the thought that ANY site I visit might be displaying a malicious banner [ or serving malware thru other...
 
Tags: 0wned, 0wned internet, scary, malware, spread malware, security publication websites, scary speed, firefox users, users
 
 
 
 
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Finally? :-) Laptop Contents Border Searches

2008-02-12 15:09:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...scary - even for those who claim that "privacy is dead; get over it" :-) Why is it scary, if you don't have anything "illegal" on your laptop? I dunno, but it feels scary More discussion is here and on - wow! - TSA blog About me: http://www.chuvakin.org
 
Tags: pretty scary, scary, laptop, feels scary, tsa blog, border, dunno, computers, suitcase
 
 
 
 
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Monthly Blog Round-Up - January 2008

2008-02-01 15:46:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Scary Game , The Original Anti-Virus Test Paper is Here! , Protected but Owned: My Little Investigation , A Bit More on AV and Closure (Kind of) to the Anti-Virus Efficiency/Effectiveness Saga Again, my materials on database logging top the charts. Specifically, How to Do Database Logging/Monitoring "Right"? as well as its "prequels" :-) Full...
 
Tags: blog round-up, monthly blog round-up, monthly, posts, popular posts, top, anti-virus efficiency, database, database log management
 
 
 
 
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Medical records - the new frontier in data theft?

2008-06-23 13:02:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...scary part to this story - (other than the fact that medical records are under active threat The scary part is the huge numbers of available stolen credit card, bank account information out there - this is depressing prices all over the world for this data! The laws of supply/demand are taking over and making this a commodity. For example,...
 
Tags: data, medical records, data breaches, sensitive data, credit card, valuable data, bank account information, prices, active threat
 
 
 
 
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The Perfect Storm

2008-07-17 07:15:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
...scary too There is an entire community of totally different players that all work together to get from the point where a nerdy kid finds a vulnerability to where a hacker uses that to get into a PC, steal personal information and credit card details, sell them or use them and move on So far, it seems, that the community has been quite lazy...
 
Tags: information, information security, personal information, credit card details, credit card, company information, credit card theft, wide-scale information theft, credit card information
 
 
 
 
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Laptop stolen in Royal Bolton Hospital break-in

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2007-12-19 15:24:44 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...scary. I'm sure the hospital could have acted more quickly Commentary This breach emphasizes the importance of encrypting all sensitive data at rest. Even if the data and computer don't leave the "secured" building, thieves still break-in and steal. The Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust "has a budget of approximately 140m", maybe they can find some...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, royal bolton hospital, hospital, sensitive personal information, bolton, information, information security, share patient information
 
 
 
 
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory visitor information exposed

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2007-12-11 13:45:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Scary! Supposedly, there is evidence that points to these attacks originating from servers in China and thus these attacks were sponsored by the Chinese government. I like a conspiracy theory as much as anyone else, but I don't subscribe to this theory. IF the Chinese government were attacking ORNL, I think the attacks would be much more...
 
Tags: information, personal information, security, store social security, retrieve information, regular information security, security systems, cyber-security issues, security breach
 
 
 
 
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Some IPFW students exposed through malware

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2007-11-29 13:26:49 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...scary that there stuff has been stolen," said student Chelsea Dougal I'll be sure to be more cautious in what I'm doing, and make sure it's something that's actual, and not some sort of scam," said Dougal It's through IPFW's network, so I think they can limit what people can do, I think... I hope," said IPFW student Casey Bowman I trust...
 
Tags: purdue university, university, information, personal information, university department, university fort wayne, computer, vulnerable information, students
 
 
 
 
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Annual Blog Round-Up - 2007

2008-01-04 13:16:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Scary Game , The Original Anti-Virus Test Paper is Here! , Protected but Owned: My Little Investigation as well as a final entry about my own switch away from mainstream major-vendor anti-virus tool: A Bit More on AV and Closure (Kind of) to the Anti-Virus Efficiency/Effectiveness Saga Next by rank is a set of my Top11 lists : Top 11 Reasons...
 
Tags: blog, round-up, annual blog round-up, monthly blog round-up, security roi pile-up, roi, monthly, blog readers, top
 
 
 
 
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Monthly Blog Round-Up - November 2007

2007-11-30 17:18:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -