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Product Vendor's sloppiness vs. Hacker's intelligence

2007-01-08 07:01:06 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...vendors are blamed for their tardiness in response. The story repeats again ad infinitum. Am I excited to hear the story over and over again? No way! I am bored of repetitions Consider this scenario: Hacker finds a vulnerability with a product from a vendor Vendor has access to all the source codes. Vendor has the knowledge about the...
 
Tags: vendor, hacker, product, product vendors, resources, functional design, information asymmetry, valuable resources, product offerings
 
 
 
 
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Personal information stolen from State Street mystery vendor

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2008-06-03 11:28:32 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...vendor hired "to provide legal support services Victims employees and some customers of the former Investors Financial Services Corp. (IBT Number Affected more than 45,000 Types of Data Names, addresses, dates of birth, and, in some cases, Social Security numbers Breach Description State Street Corp. (STT) sent notices to employees and...
 
Tags: information, personal information, street, legacy ibt customers, ibt, street corp, customers, information protection strategies, data
 
 
 
 
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Laptop stolen from Minnesota Department of Commerce vendor

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2007-12-29 00:01:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...vendor used by the Minnesota Department of Commerce to manage licensing data for the real estate, mortgage, and debt collection industries in Minnesota The theft of this computer has been reported to the Philadelphia Police Department and at this point it has not been recovered. Regrettably, Promissor waited until December 21 to alert the...
 
Tags: minnesota, minnesota real estate, sensitive personal information, personal information, minnesota department, department, minnesota licensees, real, information
 
 
 
 
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IT Vendor VAR Relationships 101

2008-05-31 20:52:07 by JJ in Security Uncorked
 
...vendor/VAR -> distributor -> manufacturer relationship. The rest have no clue So, if youre in the rest category, heres a quick overview of how the chain of love works top-down from manufacturers to VARs to you Manufacturer -> Reseller First its important to note that most IT Manufacturers have some level of Partner Programs . These programs...
 
Tags: manufacturer, manufacturer directly, manufacturer partners, specific, specific product line, manufacturer sales rep, reseller, manufacturer relationship, resellers relationship
 
 
 
 
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NAC vendor changes stripes, promises improved security technology

2008-01-08 00:00:00 by Tim Greene in Network World on Security
 
It seems to be getting harder to make it as a NAC-only vendor, as evidenced by Vernier Networks unceremoniously changing its name and working on new technology it says goes beyond its current gear
 
Tags: vernier networks unceremoniously, current gear, nac-only vendor, technology, harder
 
 
 
 
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Perimiter eSecurity buys e-mail compliance vendor

2008-01-15 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
Looking to expand its presence among New York financial companies, security services vendor Perimiter eSecurity has acquired Secure Electronic Communications Compliance Archival System (SECCAS), a small seller of e-mail management products
 
Tags: york financial companies, e-mail management products, seller, expand, seccas, presence
 
 
 
 
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Theft from vendor affects Modesto City Schools employees

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2008-02-12 15:03:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...vendors We want to do the accountable thing, which is to let everyone know so they can take their own steps to protect themselves," Modesto City Schools Superintendent Arturo Flores said Director of Business Services Dennis Snelling said no cases of identity theft connected with the data breach have been reported Were keeping an eye out,"...
 
Tags: district officials, district, district employees, school district, school district employees, employees, sensitive personal information, information, provide information
 
 
 
 
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Anti-Malware Vendor's Site Serving Malware

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2008-02-12 20:31:18 by HASH0x8b333c4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...vendor brag about their outbreak response time regarding the malware that come out of their site in times when malware authors are waging polymorphic DoS attacks on vendors/reseachers honeyfarms to generate noise
 
Tags: site, virut virus, virus, indian anti-virus site, malware, web site downloads, antivirus site, hackers, hackers seed malware
 
 
 
 
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E-voting vendor blocks security audit with legal threats

2008-03-22 03:00:06 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
New Jersey election officials have scrapped plans to hire a Princeton University computer science professor for a voting machine security review after receiving legal threats from the the vendor, Sequoia Voting Systems. Sequoia says that unauthorized independent review would violate the county's license agreement and jeopardize Sequoia's intellectu
 
Tags: legal threats, machine security review, jersey election officials, sequoia, license agreement, independent review, vendor, plans, hire