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William Jackson on FISMA: It Works, Maybe

2008-06-30 21:03:54 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
 
...William Jackson in Government Computer News: Security policies remain a burden to federal IT managers, but they are producing results First off, GCN, come into the modern Web 2.0 era by letting people comment on your articles or at least allow trackbacks. Having said that, lets look at some of Mr Jacksons points NIST Special Publications:...
 
Tags: free time, free, security policies remain, government, security, time, william jackson, government computer news, nist special publications
 
 
 
 
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File Sharing Program Exposes Prince William County Public School Private Records

2008-09-01 22:13:58 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Prince William County Public Schools (PWCS) recently learned that certain personal information relating to a small group of students, staff, and volunteers was inadvertently exposed to the public through the Internet for a period of approximately five weeks this summer. It was determined that a school-based employee, while working on school...
 
Tags: public, personal information, school business, volunteers, pwcs, employee, students, home, approximately
 
 
 
 
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Hacking Medical Devices

2008-03-12 10:39:59 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...William H. Maisel, IEEE Pervasive Computing, January 2008 Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses ," Daniel Halperin, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Benjamin Ransford, Shane S. Clark, Benessa Defend, Will Morgan, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno, and William H. Maisel, IEEE Symposium on Security...
 
Tags: devices, security, malicious security attack, cardiac, security risks, dangerous cardiac events, risks, icd incapable, icd
 
 
 
 
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The Federal government is a leader in NAC adoption

2008-04-09 10:53:43 by HASH0x8745d18 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...William Jackson on network access control. William I am sure with the best of intentions set out to do an article on different types of NAC that are available in the network and its continued adoption rates. However he made the mistake of positioning his article on the federal governments NAC adoption evolution based upon just speaking to...
 
Tags: nac, nac adoption, adoption, nac deployments, real nac presence, federal government, nac standards, federal space, federal space screams
 
 
 
 
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Latest linking of Senator Obama to a '70's terrorist may damage his reputation.

2008-05-12 00:12:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...William Ayers, can not help him in his nomination bid William "Billy" Ayers was a member of the '70's domestic terrorist group: Weather Underground Organization (WUO). WUO were opposed to the Vietnam war and pledged to bomb the Capitol, The Pentagon and Police Stations after issuing a "declaration of a state of war" against the United States...
 
Tags: senator, senator obama, william, william ayers, ayers, weather underground, weather underground organization, vietnam war, terrorism
 
 
 
 
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Locked Call Boxes and Banned Geiger Counters

2008-01-18 07:44:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...William Lee, the O'Leary's neighbor, rushed into Goll's drugstore, and gasped out a request for the key to the alarm box. The new boxes were attached to the walls of stores or other convenient locations. To prevent false alarms and crank calls, the boxes were locked, and the keys given to trustworthy citizens nearby What happened when Lee...
 
Tags: boxes, false fire alarms, fire, fire alarms, false alarms, prevent false alarms, alarm boxes, alarm, chicago fire
 
 
 
 
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'Halting State' a good read for security geeks

2008-01-24 00:00:00 by M. E. Kabay in Network World on Security
 
...William Gibson's Neuromancer is credited with popularizing the notion of cyberspace in establishing the cyberpunk style, I think Halting State may be the first book that speaks directly to the culture of information security specialists
 
Tags: security specialists, information security specialists, speaks directly, william gibson, charles stross, cyberpunk style, significant event, science fiction, cyberspace
 
 
 
 
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Davidson Companies illegal network intrusion exposes clients

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2008-02-01 14:51:54 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...William A. Johnstone, Davidson Companies president and CEO Evan] I respect Mr. Johnstone for communicating his thoughts about this breach. It demonstrates his understanding that he has a fiduciary responsibility to protect confidential information. I think we would be surprised at how many corporate executives do not understand this simple...
 
Tags: davidson, clients, davidson companies president, davidson companies clients, sensitive personal information, davidson login page, personal information, davidson companies, davidson trust
 
 
 
 
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Is PCI Really Working? 2007 Worst Year Yet

2007-12-31 03:32:31 by Bill in Grumpy Security Guy
 
...William S. Burroughs book. the worst part is Top 10 Security Stories of 2007 This is my list of the Top 10 security stories of 2007. Since I am a web application security guy th Windows Machines are Bluescreened in Leopard This is awesome! Browsing networks with Windows machines on them show the Windows boxes as old CRT m 5 Security...
 
Tags: worst, security stories, pci, windows machines, nice stuff, grumpy security guy, nice, secure, install malware