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Stolen Wendy's laptop affects 1,092 employees

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2008-01-03 14:08:27 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 12/21/07 Organization Wendy's International, Inc Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Wendy's employees Number Affected 1,092 Types of Data Name, email address, Social Security number, employee identification number, and salary information Breach Description A Wendy's laptop was stolen...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, information security, confidential information, information security policies, wendy, breach description, breach
 
 
 
 
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New Info Sec magazine in blog format

2008-03-10 06:02:01 by HASH0x8b3962c in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
Ken Belva, a blogger in the SBN is starting a new InfoSec magazine in blog format. Below is Ken's post on the new venture. I wish him and the team well and will be reading http://www.bloginfosec.com/2008/03/10/announcing-bloginfoseccom-an-information-security-magazine-in-a-blog-format Announcing bloginfosec.com, an information security magazine...
 
Tags: misti infosec world, information security, world, information security magazine, executives, information security executives, blog format, address, email address
 
 
 
 
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New Info Sec magazine in blog format

2008-03-10 07:02:00 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
Ken Belva, a blogger in the SBN is starting a new InfoSec magazine in blog format. Below is Ken's post on the new venture. I wish him and the team well and will be reading http://www.bloginfosec.com/2008/03/10/announcing-bloginfoseccom-an-information-security-magazine-in-a-blog-format Announcing bloginfosec.com, an information security magazine...
 
Tags: misti infosec world, information security, world, information security magazine, executives, information security executives, blog format, address, email address
 
 
 
 
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Contributing To Open Source Software Security

2008-05-05 11:38:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
Written by Will Drewry From operating systems to web browsers , open source software plays a critical role in the operation of the Internet. The security of open source software is therefore quite important, as it often interacts with personal information -- ranging from credit card numbers to medical records -- that needs to be kept safe....
 
Tags: security, source software, software, additional security contributions, background, operational security background, security professionals, security vulnerability mediation, manual security analysis
 
 
 
 
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U.S. Government Policy for Seizing Laptops at Borders

2008-08-01 12:21:25 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Amazing. The U.S. government has published its policy : they can take you laptop anywhere they want, for as long as they want, and share the information with anyone they want Here's the actual policy: Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any...
 
Tags: policy, cover, policies cover, policies, actual policy, government, border protection, border, laptop
 
 
 
 
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Serializable XmlDocument

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2008-08-19 02:58:00 by keith-brown in Security Briefs
It's surprising that XmlDocument isn't marked [Serializable], because it's very natural to serialize one into a stream. I wanted to put an object into ASP.NET ViewState the other day, and quickly ran into this roadblock, because part of the object included an XmlDocument, which is not serializable. A quick search revealed that most people deal...
 
Tags: public class item, public, public void getobjectdata, public static byte, xmldocument, return doc, return, static byte, public class
 
 
 
 
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Brushing up on my math skills...

2006-07-21 04:38:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
I'm somewhat amazed on how I got myself into the world of Financial Derivatives . I do not have a quantitative degree (I majored in Management Economics) and didn't pay much attention to my math and statistics classes in college. Yet I find financial markets (derivatives in particular) fascinating. And becoming knowledgeable in them actually...
 
Tags: derivatives, topics, plain vanilla derivatives, discuss topics, quantitative finance topics, financial derivatives, quantitative finance, papers, research papers
 
 
 
 
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On virtualisation

2007-05-29 16:20:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
Posted by Tavis Ormandy, Security Team Following Panayiotis' and Niels' post on malware, I'd like to discuss a somewhat related topic, virtualisation. Virtual machines are often used by security researchers to sandbox malware samples for analysis, or to protect a machine from a potentially hazardous activity. The theory is that any security...
 
Tags: machine, virtual machine process, virtual machine software, host machine, host, software, virtual machine, low, low level access
 
 
 
 
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Auditing open source software

2007-10-08 16:13:00 by Panayiotis Mavrommatis in Google Online Security Blog
 
Written by Chris Evans, Security Team Google encourages its employees to contribute back to the open source community, and there is no exception in Google's Security Team. Let's look at some interesting open source vulnerabilities that were located and fixed by members of Google's Security team. It is interesting to classify and aggregate the...
 
Tags: image, malicious image file, libtiff image, values, jpeg image, tiff header values, source, evil tiff file, evil
 
 
 
 
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Using Perl, Postgres and SQL to build a Comprehensive, Searchable Database of Firewall Activity on a Checkpoint firewall on the Cheap