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WCU server "hacked several times" since 2006

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2008-03-26 07:54:16 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Times Report Credit Carol Motsinger, Asheville Citizen-Times Response From the online source cited above Someone had hacked into a computer and had access to the Social Security numbers of 555 graduates of Western Carolina University who had signed up for a newsletter Evan] What? Give me your Social Security number, and I'll give you a...
 
Tags: server, servers remains vulnerable, servers, secure servers, computer server, wcu, social security, unsecure server, times
 
 
 
 
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New York Times Taunts Long Island Effort, E-Path

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2008-04-15 10:53:58 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...Times editorial board says nyah-nyah to Long Island's Wi-Fi network: The editorial posted on the Times masthead blog, The Board, notes that a "no-name" company wiht "no track record" was awarded a contract, and that citizens shouldn't worry because "the government wouldn't be spending anything." (The Suffolk County executive Steve Levy was...
 
Tags: logo taxpayer dollars, taxpayer dollars, times, fewer taxpayer dollars, logo, dollars, wi-fi, wi-fi network, times editorial board
 
 
 
 
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Throwplace.com can help in these hard times

2008-08-14 17:34:29 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...times. Throwplace also has a recycle directory and a green directory clipped from www.enn.com Free Goods At Throwplace.com Help Consumers in Tough Times At Throwplace.com, charities, businesses and individuals from all over the world can throw their excess onto the Internet where others can view and take what they need for free. Each...
 
Tags: throwplace, hard times, directory, recycle directory, tough economic times, tough times, free, landfills, world
 
 
 
 
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Investigate the Pentagon Pundit Project (and The New York Times) Yourself, Online

2008-05-07 04:00:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
Did the New York Times run a hit piece on a group of former generals working as television analysts? Or have the networks purposely ignored a major story that implicates them in Pentagon propaganda-pushing? The documents are now online. So here's your chance to fact-check the media majordomos yourself
 
Tags: york times, pentagon, online, networks purposely, television analysts, major story, media majordomos, hit piece, documents
 
 
 
 
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Software Security May Live in Interesting Times

2008-09-17 06:57:27 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...times they assume that the client just doesn't get it, but they do, they just have a different business model. Most of the other industries have far fewer hard edges and more integration to deal with Software security should benefit from opening up to dealing with other business models. I guess now we're going to find out
 
Tags: software security, web services security, financial services, fewer hard edges, global financial system, technology, hurricane subprime, business models, healthcare company
 
 
 
 
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Article in the Irish Times

2008-10-03 13:43:49 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
On Wednesday I was interviewed by the Irish Times
 
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New Tool For Graphics Cards Threaten Wireless Networks Encryption

2008-10-10 23:19:36 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Russian firm ElcomSoft has applied GPU acceleration technology to a new password recovery tool that allows PCs or servers running supported NVIDIA video cards to break Wi-Fi encryption up to 100 times faster than is possible by using conventional microprocessors. Recovery times for Wi-Fi keys are increased by a factor between 10 to 15 in
 
Tags: nvidia video cards, password recovery tool, gpu acceleration technology, russian firm elcomsoft, conventional microprocessors, times faster, recovery times, wi-fi keys, wi-fi encryption
 
 
 
 
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Expanding Response: Deeper Analysis for Incident Handlers

2008-10-10 08:38:00 by Russ McRee in HolisticInfoSec.org
 
...times in my toolsmith column in the ISSA Journal , and includes details on Argus , HeX , NSM-Console , and NetworkMiner Abstract The perspective embraced for this discussion is that of an analyst who is working a process to determine the exact nature of malicious software on his network. He is in receipt of the above mentioned .exe and .pcap...
 
Tags: network, paper includes tools, incident handlers, network capture, deeper analysis, paper, gcih gold, includes details, pcap files
 
 
 
 
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Controversy surrounds Royal Perth computers and patients

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2008-04-08 00:21:25 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Times that the newspaper was able to access private details of hospital patients from old computers found dumped outside a hospital Reference URL The Sunday Times The Courier Mail Report Credit Paul Lampathakis, The Sunday Times Response From the online sources cited above CONFIDENTIAL patient details are being left on old computers...
 
Tags: hospital claim, hospital, computers, hospital computers, sunday times hired, sunday times, patient details, confidential patient details, times
 
 
 
 
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Dr Beetroot and the Stolen Records

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2007-08-27 14:15:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts