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Dual-Use Technologies and the Equities Issue

2008-05-06 05:17:24 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...technologies have both military and civilian applications. Dual-use technologies used to be exceptions; even things you'd expect to be dual use, like radar systems and toilets, were designed differently for the military. But today, almost all information technology is dual use. We both use the same operating systems, the same networking...
 
Tags: technologies, dual-use technologies, bad guys insecure, guys, dual, security, non-security, security improves, security improvements
 
 
 
 
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Dual-Use Technologies and the Equities Issue

2008-05-06 05:17:24 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...technologies have both military and civilian applications. Dual-use technologies used to be exceptions; even things you'd expect to be dual use, like radar systems and toilets, were designed differently for the military. But today, almost all information technology is dual use. We both use the same operating systems, the same networking...
 
Tags: technologies, dual-use technologies, bad guys insecure, guys, dual, security, non-security, security improves, security improvements
 
 
 
 
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51,000 Current and former Agilent Technologies employees at risk

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2008-03-25 09:13:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Technologies Contractor/Consultant/Branch Stock & Options Solutions Victims Current and former Agilent employees Number Affected 51,000 Types of Data names, Social Security numbers, home addresses and details of stock options and other stock-related awards Breach Description A laptop containing sensitive and unencrypted personal data on...
 
Tags: agilent, agilent technologies, agilent vendor march, vendor, administer agilent, agilent alert, agilent employees, stock, stock options
 
 
 
 
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Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2008)

2007-12-05 10:13:49 by Steven J. Murdoch in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...Technologies Symposium (previously the PET Workshop), which this year will be held in Leuven, Belgium, 2325 July 2008. PETS is one of the leading venues for research in privacy, so if you have any relevant research, I can thoroughly recommend submitting it here In addition to the main paper session, a new feature this year is HotPETS, which...
 
Tags: privacy, technologies symposium, relevant research, research, main paper session, pets, hotpets, pet workshop, program committee
 
 
 
 
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Grisoft changes name to AVG Technologies

2008-02-07 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Grisoft changes name to AVG Technologies
 
Tags: avg technologies, grisoft
 
 
 
 
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EU drafts guidelines for RFID technologies

2008-02-21 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b5caa0 in Network World on Security
 
The European Commission has sketched out guidelines to help get RFID technologies up and running in the European Union, but stopped short of proposing formal legislation in the area
 
Tags: rfid technologies, guidelines, european union, european commission, formal legislation, short
 
 
 
 
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Young workers, Web 2.0 technologies pose security challenges

2008-03-20 00:00:00 by Denise Dubie in Network World on Security
 
Symantec survey shows IT, younger and experienced workers have different views on the use of Web 2.0 technologies and corporate security
 
Tags: web, technologies, workers, security, symantec survey, views
 
 
 
 
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Report: Government's Cyber-Security Plan Is Riddled With New Spying Programs

2008-05-15 19:30:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
Major parts of the government's proposed $17 billion computer-security plan are actually spying programs, according to a Senate committee's budget report. The committee also faulted the plan for excessive secrecy around privacy and civil liberties issues and for funding experimental and possibly illegal technologies
 
Tags: plan, possibly illegal technologies, civil liberties issues, government, committee, excessive secrecy, budget report, programs, billion
 
 
 
 
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Consumer networks for business use

2008-03-10 09:30:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...technologies could be hurting their company's bottom line. That, apparently, is the message from IT leaders and industry analysts who are convinced that Web 2.0 technologies are the real deal . And, as it's published in CIO Magazine then it must surely be true. The article goes on to cite examples from the real world (the one where you have...
 
Tags: business, business relationships, real business relationships, swap company information, information, company, company data, contacts, facebook contacts
 
 
 
 
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America's Dilemma: Close Security Holes, or Exploit Them Ourselves