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Summarizing June's Threatscape

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2008-07-01 07:05:01 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...tiny parts of these ISPs represent a tiny part of the Russian Business Network itself
 
Tags: site, fake youtube site, web site defacements, malware, malware hosts, web site defacer, sites, vulnerable sites, malicious
 
 
 
 
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MySpace and U.S. Attorneys General Agree to Fight Sexual Predators

2008-01-17 13:12:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...tiny handful of highly publicized stories -- on MySpace. It's just security theater against a movie-plot threat. But we humans have a well-established cognitive bias that overestimates threats against our children, so it all makes sense
 
Tags: myspace, child predators, stop child predators, attorneys, sexual predators, movie-plot threat, tiny handful, security theater, cognitive bias
 
 
 
 
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TSA Misses the Point, Again

2008-01-29 15:13:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...tiny inscriptions found in borders of passports and other IDs. About 2,100 of each are going to the nation's 800 airport checkpoints The closer scrutiny of passenger IDs is the latest Transportation Security Administration effort to check passengers more thoroughly than simply having them walk through metal detectors More than 40 passengers...
 
Tags: tsa, tsa screeners, tsa agent, tsa document checker, screeners, passenger ids, passenger, screeners inspect, airport
 
 
 
 
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Detecting Nuclear Weapons Using the Cell Phone Network

2008-02-01 12:54:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Tiny solid-state radiation sensors are commercially available. The detection system would require additional circuitry and would not add significant bulk to portable electronic products, Fischbach said I'm not convinced it's a good idea to deploy such a system, but I like the idea of piggy-backing a nationwide sensor network on top of our...
 
Tags: network, detection system, phones, system, cell phones, radiation sensors, nationwide sensor network, portable electronic products, require additional circuitry
 
 
 
 
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NetClarity rolls a NAC device for remote corporate offices

2008-02-11 00:00:00 by Tim Greene in Network World on Security
 
NetClarity is coming out with a tiny branch office appliance that can push network access control security protection into the smallest corporate sites
 
Tags: netclarity, sites
 
 
 
 
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Providing executive protection for Lindsay Lohan, Brad Pitt, Mel Gobson and other Hollywood stars

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2007-12-23 18:19:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
...Tiny" and "Big Mo". Astute corporate executives on the other hand, realize the importance of hiring intelligent agents who can make split-second decisions and assist with the planning of the client's itinerary Hollywood clients beware; not every Israeli soldier belonged to a crack counter-terrorism unit. As a security employer, I am all too...
 
Tags: hollywood, hollywood stars, hollywood celebrities, stars, hollywood clients beware, personal protection, executive protection, special forces commando, prime minister rabin
 
 
 
 
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Fear of Internet Predators Largely Unfounded

2008-02-26 06:30:10 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...tiny handful of highly publicized stories -- on MySpace. It's just security theater against a movie-plot threat. But we humans have a well-established cognitive bias that overestimates threats against our children, so it all makes sense
 
Tags: internet, internet predators, internet predators represent, predators, sex crimes, sex, child, child predators, internet predators trick
 
 
 
 
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Hacking Medical Devices

2008-03-12 10:39:59 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...tiny wireless radio that Medtronic, the devices maker, had embedded in the implant as a way to let doctors monitor and adjust it without surgery There's only a little bit of hyperbole in the New York Times article. The research is being conducted by the Medical Device Security Center , with researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical...
 
Tags: devices, security, malicious security attack, cardiac, security risks, dangerous cardiac events, risks, icd incapable, icd
 
 
 
 
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With Vista breached, Linux unbeaten in hacking contest

2008-03-29 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, running on a Sony Vaio, that remained undefeated as conference organizers ended a three-way computer hacking challenge Friday at the CanSecWest conference
 
Tags: tiny fujitsu laptop, conference, conference organizers, sony vaio, three-way computer, linux, vista, challenge friday, macbook air
 
 
 
 
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Yoggie puts laptop firewall in tiny card