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Excel risks go undetected, businesses warned

2008-03-12 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b43c74 in Network World on Security
 
Businesses where staff use Excel spreadsheets to develop applications quickly and cheaply aren't paying enough attention to the operational risks they run -- especially when the spreadsheets link to back-end systems
 
Tags: develop applications quickly, businesses, spreadsheets link, back-end systems, excel spreadsheets, operational risks, attention, staff, cheaply
 
 
 
 
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Malware and Office Documents Joining Forces

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2008-07-14 11:20:34 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...spreadsheets and PDF files, are the most widely abused ones in targeted attacks, which when backed up with enough personal information and take into consideration the time of their attack if the social engineering campaign is either going to be based on a current/upcoming event, or on an event anticipated due to information gathered through...
 
Tags: document, document macros, support, enable support, macro, macro viruses, support vba macros, exe-file, extract exe-file
 
 
 
 
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Corporate Spying

2008-01-16 12:21:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...spreadsheets to job searches on Monster.com, or photos with flesh tones that might indicate a user is viewing pornography And this article talks about ex-CIA agents working for corporations: The best estimate is that several hundred former intelligence agents now work in corporate espionage, including some who left the C.I.A. during the...
 
Tags: agents, intelligence agents, wal-mart, off-duty police officers, officers, wal-mart employee fired, cell-phone calls, phone calls, obtain
 
 
 
 
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An internal breach at the University of Toledo exposes 6,500

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2008-04-13 21:14:52 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...spreadsheets, to be stored on the internal server, but they are typically kept in folders where only employees of that department have access, Mr. Hogle said There were about 6500 employees w-2 forms primarily from 1993 and 1999," says UT spokesperson Jon Strunk The personal information, including social security numbers, were made...
 
Tags: university, university officials doubt, information, information security professionals, university employees, personal information, toledo, employees, expose information
 
 
 
 
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Google Apps hit by session-stealing attack

2008-04-16 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b4a464 in Network World on Security
 
A security researcher has uncovered a serious flaw in Google Spreadsheets, which could give an attacker access to all of a user's Google services Enterprise IP Goes Mobile Advertisement To maximize full productivity, companies must integrate their mobile applications with the IP network
 
Tags: mobile applications, mobile, attacker access, google services, security researcher, google spreadsheets, advertisement, network, enterprise
 
 
 
 
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Two students access confidential Dominican University files

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2008-05-14 22:40:18 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...spreadsheets from 2003, 2005 and 2007 Reference URL WMAQ NBC Channel 5 News RiverForest-Leaves Dominican University Report Credit Dominican University Response From the online sources cited above Dominican University takes information security very seriously. In April, we discovered that two student workers had accessed Excel files...
 
Tags: university, dominican university, dominican university students, dominican, students, files, security, security processes, access
 
 
 
 
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Three Essays on Muni-Fi You Should Read

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2008-05-20 12:50:08 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...spreadsheets were skewed. USI Wireless's estimates for break-even require less than 10 percent of the population in their covered areas to subscribe, and their numbers of subscribers to date are tracking that number closely He closes with a set of eight principles for wireless network builders to come to the table with and cities to adopt,...
 
Tags: ocean city, wi-fi, wi-fi service, city, york city, offer free wi-fi, percent, city set, 90-plus percent coverage
 
 
 
 
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iPhone vs. ITs Standard Answer, No

2008-06-16 10:48:16 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...Spreadsheets? PCs? Departmental minis? Not one of those technologies was secure enough, reliable enough and enterprise-ready enough when business users first insisted on sneaking them in under the IT (or MIS or DP) departments radar Of course, users had to sneak that stuff in. They knew what the answer would be if they asked us: No. Not...
 
Tags: iphone, support microsoft exchange, business users, users, security guys, article link, official position, safe, security outfits
 
 
 
 
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"Walking" with the SDL - Part 3

2008-07-23 16:43:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...spreadsheets, or websites to store/sort/share the information. Whatever method you use, it is important to anticipate the accumulation of a large set of information that should be easily used and shared across the organization I would like to do a deeper dive on the importance of security code reviews as part of your walk evolution. Security...
 
Tags: security requirements serve, security requirements, security development lifecycle, security development, requirements, lifecycle, security lifecycle, security, security ecosystem
 
 
 
 
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On Idiots and Logs

2008-08-15 11:51:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
How on Earth can someone even utter the phrases " scalable log management " and