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Times Up IPv6 OMB Mandate

2008-06-30 19:27:18 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
 
...twenty-four agencies were on track to achieve the June deadline. Two months ago, there was a good article by Carolyn Marsan Duffy about the status of compliance . Take a look at this article because it seemed like there was a lot of backpedaling going on about meeting the date using phrases like we dont like the term mandate and more of a...
 
Tags: ipv6, aced ipv6 deadline, ipv6 packets, transmit ipv6 traffic, omb, ipv6 applications, actual ipv6 applications, agencies, twenty-four agencies
 
 
 
 
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'Diehard' virus variants flexing muscle

2008-01-02 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
New Windows-based "downloader" malware known as Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Diehard has surged to the top of Kaspersky Lab's "Virus Top Twenty" list for December because of its "explosive propagation," the security firm said Wednesday
 
Tags: virus top twenty, top, security firm, explosive propagation, kaspersky lab, diehard, downloader, malware, win32
 
 
 
 
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Demos Report on National Security

2008-01-03 06:33:52 by Editor in Schneier on Security
 
National Security for the Twenty-First Century," by Charlie Edwards at the British think-tank Demos. It's long -- 121 pages -- but there's some good stuff in it
 
Tags: national security, british think-tank demos, charlie edwards, twenty-first century, stuff, pages
 
 
 
 
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Swedish Army Loses Classified Information on Memory Stick

2008-01-09 13:46:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Twenty years ago, someone could break into my office and copy every customer file, every piece of correspondence, everything about my professional life. Today, all he has to do is steal my computer. Or my portable backup drive. Or my small stack of DVD backups. Furthermore, he could sneak into my office and copy all this data, and I'd never...
 
Tags: stick, memory stick, public computer center, computer, public computer, information, armed forces, swedish army, stick belongs
 
 
 
 
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Improvements in Face Recognition

2008-02-11 07:18:18 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...twenty different pictures across a range of ages, lighting and so on Not useful when you only have one grainy photograph of your target, but interesting research nonetheless
 
Tags: lecturer rob jenkins, research nonetheless, mike burton, grainy photograph, variable effects, camera equipment, composite, range, age
 
 
 
 
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Desktop computer stolen from Administrative Systems, Inc.

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2008-02-11 14:53:04 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...twenty-four months by reviewing your financial account statements and monitoring your credit reports to minimize your potential risk of identity theft or fraud Evan] The onus is on the data custodian to protect the information according to what is expected by the data owner. The victims can remain vigilant, but what if data custodians are...
 
Tags: protect personal information, personal information, sensitive personal information, companies, include insurance companies, financial services companies, information, information security, asi partner companies
 
 
 
 
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Inside a Botnet's Phishing Activities

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2008-02-25 09:34:49 by HASH0x8b44f48 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...twenty different variants that are known to have been using ns.uk2.net for DNS resolving purposes. All of these domains are using the same nameservers indicating their connection. Here are some of the subdomains in the already running, and spammed phishing campaigns direct-certs9.bankofamerica.com.ssl36.net...
 
Tags: net, botnet, bkdr agent, agent, microsoft, hosts phone, domains, hosts, ecosystem
 
 
 
 
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ZDNet Asia and TorrentReactor IFRAME-ed

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2008-03-04 09:15:20 by HASH0x8b3f7c8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...twenty search results, thanks to the sites high page ranks. Sample search queries jamie presley mari misato risa coda kasumi tokumoto jill criscuolo The IFRAME is loading 72.232.39.252/a also responding to themaleks.net . The link itself is loading an obfuscated javascript, which once deobfuscated attempts to load...
 
Tags: iframe, zdnet asia, pages, pages redirect, iframe-ed pages, torrentreactor, iframe-ing tactic remains, seo practices, torrentreactor seo practices
 
 
 
 
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40,000 BlueCross BlueShield members notified of lost laptop

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2008-03-11 15:31:27 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...TWENTY-FIVE OR MORE RESIDENTS OF NEW YORK. THE DISCLOSURE SHALL BE MADE WITHIN TWO BUSINESS DAYS AFTER LEARNING OF THE BREACH OF SECURITY, BUT MAY BE DELAYED IF A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY DETERMINES THAT THE NOTIFICATION WILL IMPEDE A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION. THE NOTIFICATION REQUIRED BY THIS SECTION SHALL BE MADE AFTER THE LAW ENFORCEMENT...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, confidential information, laptop, information owners, breach description, breach, security breach
 
 
 
 
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A Portfolio of Fake Video Codecs

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2008-03-19 17:27:56 by HASH0x8b5b564 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...twenty fake video codecs domains are hosting the same binary in the form of a Zlob malware downloader, infrastructu