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Nokia admits security flaws in Series 40 OS

2008-08-21 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Nokia confirmed Thursday its widely used Series 40 operating system has security vulnerabilities that could allow activation of stealth applications
 
 
 
 
 
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Nokia admits security flaws in Series 40 OS

2008-08-21 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b379f4 in Network World on Security
 
Nokia confirmed Thursday its widely used Series 40 operating system has security vulnerabilities that could allow stealth installation and activation of applications
 
 
 
 
 
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Ask the Auditor: Who is Responsible for Information Security?

2007-12-29 06:24:50 by Editor in Security Links
 
...security By Dan Swanson A Reader Asks: Who is responsible for information security The Auditor Responds: In short, the board of directors, management (of both staff and business lines), and internal audit functions all have significant roles in auditing information security. The big question for many companies is how these stakeholders should...
 
 
 
 
 
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Security is not all about Security Updates

2007-12-17 12:58:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...security updates?" So I want to make sure people understand the goals of the SDL and perhaps more importantly, the non-goals There are three major security-related disciplines here at Microsoft and people outside the company often confuse the three 1. Security feature development 2. Security response 3. Secure software engineering The first...
 
 
 
 
 
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Reliability Vs. Security

2007-12-07 16:46:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...security versus reliability debate would be very one-sided. After all, reliability is the attendees mainstay and if there is one group of folks on the planet who would see security as a subset or subsidiary concern, it might be the industry and academic experts that attend this prestigious IEEE conference I gave the industry keynote to open...
 
 
 
 
 
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My 2008 Security Predictions!

2008-01-09 15:42:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...security predictions that cover both technology and market. I just posted a review of my last's year's prediction where I mostly erred on the conservative side. I promise to be more 'extreme' this year, while still keeping the old wisdom of Richard Feynman in mind: if you predict the status quo, you are more likely to be correct Here is my...
 
 
 
 
 
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Security vs. Privacy

2008-01-29 05:21:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...security versus privacy. Which is more important? How much privacy are you willing to give up for security? Can we even afford privacy in this age of insecurity? Security versus privacy: It's the battle of the century, or at least its first decade In a Jan. 21 New Yorker article, Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell discusses a...
 
 
 
 
 
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Who should do your security audits? Or, how do you organize the security department?

2008-02-07 22:25:32 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...security department are uneasy with this, and prefer that someone else do the auditing. I've encountered similar tension before, and it always makes me wonder why information security folk and auditors frequently have trouble working together. As I thought more about this, I began to wonder if maybe there's a better way to organize the entire...
 
 
 
 
 
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Security is Invisible and Customers won't Pay for Security

2008-01-25 19:06:11 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...Security is invisible. Customers are willing to pay for visible software product functionality but not for secure software product development methodology. Unfortunately, most of the security is in the backend, if security works well, truly, it should be "invisible" and the fact that it hidden does not motivate customers to pay anything...