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Microsoft ships six critical patches, but two lesser vulnerabilities could be killers

2008-02-12 00:00:00 by John Fontana in Network World on Security
 
Microsoft Tuesday released 11 security patches, six with the highest rating of "critical" that span Windows, Office, and Internet Explorer, but some say it is a combination of two non-critical vulnerabilities that should catch the eye of corporate IT
 
Tags: critical, non-critical vulnerabilities, microsoft tuesday, span windows, security patches, internet explorer, combination, office, eye
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft dishes out six critical updates

2008-02-13 16:29:05 by Editor in ElectricNews.net - SECURITY
 
Microsoft released eleven patches on Tuesday, with six of them meriting a critical rating
 
Tags: critical, microsoft, tuesday, patches
 
 
 
 
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Full Presentation "Six Mistakes of Log Management" Released

2008-04-23 19:04:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
As you know, I release my presentations on Slideshare when I get tired of them The time for releasing my famous "Six Mistakes of Log Management" has come View | Upload your own About me: http://www.chuvakin.org
 
Tags: log management, mistakes, org, time, release, famous, slideshare, view, tired
 
 
 
 
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Six hours to hack the FBI (and other pen-testing adventures)

2008-05-27 00:00:00 by Sandra Gittlen in Network World on Security
 
It takes a lot to shock Chris Goggans; he's been a pen (penetration) tester since 1991, getting paid to break into a wide variety of networks. But he says nothing was as egregious as security lapses in both infrastructure design and patch management at a civilian government agency -- holes that let him hack his way through to a major FBI crime...
 
Tags: shock chris goggans, civilian government agency, patch management, security lapses, hack, hours, infrastructure design, wide variety, lot
 
 
 
 
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Six hours to hack the FBI

2008-05-28 00:00:00 by HASH0x8472e44 in Network World on Security
 
The eighth paragraph of the Computerworld (US) story, "Six hours to hack the FBI (and other pen-testing adventures)," which was posted to the wire Tuesday, has been corrected to give the correct title of Chris Nickerson and the company where he works. The corrected paragraph follows
 
Tags: eighth paragraph, paragraph, hours, chris nickerson, fbi, wire tuesday, hack, correct title, story
 
 
 
 
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Creating and Entrapping Terrorists

2008-03-05 06:25:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
When I wrote this essay -- "Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot" -- I thought a lot about the government inventing terrorist plotters and entrapping them, to make the world seem scarier. Since then, it's been on my list of topics to write about someday Rolling Stone has this excellent article on the topic, about the Joint Terrorism Task...
 
Tags: terrorist, modern terrorist, hossain, terrorist conspiracies, deal hossain claims, yassin aref, aref, terrorist plot, stop federal agents
 
 
 
 
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Montgomery Ward breached, no notification obligation?

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2008-06-27 23:45:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 6/27/08 Organization Direct Marketing Services Inc Contractor/Consultant/Branch Montgomery Ward HomeVisions.com SearsHomeCenter.com SearsShowPlace.com SearsRoomForKids.com Victims Customers Number Affected at least 51,000 records Types of Data Names, addresses, phone numbers, card numbers,...
 
Tags: card companies, companies, services, services closely, credit card companies, services retail properties, financial company citigroup, company, montgomery ward
 
 
 
 
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Sensitive Milwaukee County information posted to Web

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2008-02-13 17:06:24 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 2/11/08 Organization Milwaukee County (Wisconsin, USA Contractor/Consultant/Branch Citizens for Responsible Government Network Victims Persons involved with the county Number Affected Unknown Types of Data patient and legal records Breach Description Milwaukee County officials released a copy...
 
Tags: milwaukee county, milwaukee county officials, information, county, county officials, sensitive personal information, confidential information, county clerk, county records crg
 
 
 
 
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The C-I-A Triad weighed and found wanting

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2007-04-12 04:54:18 by Perry Carpenter in Security Renaissance
Believe it or not, the field of Information Security has changed! Foundational concepts, such as the traditional C-I-A triad (Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability) are being challenged and supplanted by a more inclusive model known as the Parkerian Hexad [1]. The Parkerian Hexad augments the traditional C-I-A triad by adding three...
 
Tags: information security, information, parkerian hexad, parkerian hexad model, control information, principles, security principles, personal health information, parkerian hexad augments
 
 
 
 
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Are you attending RSA Europe 2007 ?

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2007-10-13 17:36:56 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security