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Data Breach Effects: Advice on How to Rebuild Credit Ratings
Endpoint Security in the News | 10 hours ago by Alina
As more and more data breaches are revealed and debated online, the number of victims of such incidents increases. From never-ending sales calls to having items charged on your card to seeing credit ratings go down the drain to identity theft, these read more
Security Systems and Personal Identity Information - Conversation
Corporate Investigations Inc | October 10th 2008
As an I.T. person I will tell you this post could get a little technical, and will definitely be less formal that some of the other posts on our site (us IT people can tend to be a little sarcastic at times). If you have an I.T. person in your organ read more
University of Michigan Introduces “Cloud Security”
The Technology Blog | October 8th 2008 by The Technology Blog
Research recently done by the University of Michigan introduces a better solution to virus detection and computer protection – “the cloud”. This is a method where a series of servers are connected to act as large anti-virus software. T read more
Limiting damage during a data breach
The Whistler's Ear | September 30th 2008 by Nell Walton
CSO has an excellent article on how to limit damage during a data breach. Included are these excellent steps: Create a response plan or review your current one. Have a thought-out and actionable plan in place so your post-breach response can be a read more
Playing Hide and Seek with Private Records
Endpoint Security in the News | September 29th 2008 by Alina
The security breach case we’re about to talk about is both troubling and funny. Missing data found after a few days after the disclosure of the breach, or, in other words, playing hide and seek with personal records is what’s been happening at th read more
Should You Let Your Child Use an Internet Chat Room?
Computer Repair and Troubleshooting | September 26th 2008 by Robert
Are you the parent of a child who has recently decided that they want to use internet chat rooms? Or, are you a parent who has just learned that your child has been using internet chat rooms? If you are, you may be unsure as to how you should proce read more
TJX Effects: Forever 21 Payment Card Breach
Endpoint Security in the News | September 26th 2008 by Alina
It has recently been discovered that the people behind the largest security breach in history, TJX, a heist affecting 46.5 million cards, have also breached US retailer Forever 21, lifting about 99,000 debit and credit cards. As the Register report read more
A case study in poor authentication: Palin's Yahoo! email account
Greg Hughes' Tech Blog | September 18th 2008
It's really the classic case study in information (in)security and the need for strong authentication. With all due respect to the good people at Yahoo!, this opportunity to review Internet security mechanisms is too good and too useful read more
NBAR (Network Based Application Recognition)
My Avatar State | September 18th 2008 by Rex Bugcalao
Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR) is a mechanism that classifies and regulates bandwidth for network applications to ensure that available resources are utilized as efficiently as possible. Cisco Systems developed NBAR as part of its Conte read more
Privacy flaw or useful feature? Your iPhone is "watching" you
Greg Hughes' Tech Blog | September 11th 2008
Over at Wired's Gadget Labs blog, Brian Chen writes about information discovered during a webcast presentation on Thursday covering the recently discussed iPhone security weaknesses having to do with bypassing the password-protected lock screen. read more
Private Data of 5,000 Lost along with Hard Drive
Endpoint Security in the News | September 11th 2008 by Alina
Lost hardware is the cause of another data loss that has affected 5000 employees of the National Offender Management Service in England and Wales. The hard drive containing the personal records of the employees, including prison staff, was lost by a read more
What is Information Security ?
Technocrat | T3c-n0-cr@t : The Blog-e-zine | September 9th 2008 by Anukul
Information Security (Wikipedia Definition) is a broader term than IT Security or Internet Security or Enterprise Data Security. Information Security encompasses data stored in digital fashion (electronic format), trade secrets, know-how, intellectua read more
Real Count: NY Bank Lost Data on 12 Million Customers
Endpoint Security in the News | September 6th 2008 by Alina
Do you remember the Bank of New York Mellon’s lost backup tapes? Initially, it was said they contained private records on 4.2 million customers. Yet according to new info from DarkReading, the count has just rose to 12 million. “When we announce read more
2008: Sky is the Limit for US Data Breaches
Endpoint Security in the News | September 6th 2008 by Alina
The year is not even close to being over and the data breaches reported in the US have surpassed exceeded the number of such incidents reported for 2007, says San-Dieg based Identity Theft Resource Center. And while these numbers amaze and worry us, read more
Google's Dream Browser, Chrome: Coming soon to your computer
Greg Hughes' Tech Blog | September 1st 2008
Google seeded a paper comic book to some people recently, to present and describe their future web browser (or you might just think of it as the web browser of the future), which is called Google Browser or Chrome. read more
Drive By Download
My Avatar State | August 31st 2008 by Rex Bugcalao
A drive-by download is a program that is automatically downloaded to your computer without your consent or even your knowledge. Unlike a pop-up download, which asks for assent (albeit in a calculated manner likely to lead to a "yes"), a drive-by down read more
NASA shoots a computer virus into space
Greg Hughes' Tech Blog | August 27th 2008
Well, this is a little embarrassing. Intergalactic malware has made it's way into the news. A computer virus on the International Space Station. No AV software on the laptops they use, nor (apparently) is there a process of security checks on pers read more
Wonder if They Sell Private Records on eBay…
Endpoint Security in the News | August 26th 2008 by Alina
Wonder no more, as the answer is no public: they do! You can buy hardware containing private details of strangers on eBay! Just a short while ago an IT manager paid 35 pounds on a computer hard disk containing one million sets of bank details. The sa read more
Security, More Important than Recession
Endpoint Security in the News | August 26th 2008 by Alina
According to recently released data, US mid-sized companies are more concerned about information security than cutting down costs. The survey conducted by Arrow Electronics Inc collected data from 200 US companies with annual revenues from less than read more
Insider Compromises 2 million Private Records
Endpoint Security in the News | August 19th 2008 by Alina
If you’re acquainted to endpoint security solutions and the threats they try to prevent, you have definitely heard of the inside threat. It refers to employees who breach security systems and compromise confidential data. Whether it criminal in read more
BBC Admits Loss of Children’s Data, Rejects Any Responsibility
Endpoint Security in the News | August 14th 2008 by Alina
Allowing your offspring to take part in a kids cooking show hosted by the BBC might not be as safe as you imagine. 250 children who applied for BBC1’s “Gastronauts” had to provide the television with a number of personal details which were late read more
Honey Monkey
My Avatar State | August 13th 2008 by Rex Bugcalao
A honey monkey is a program that imitates a human user to lure, detect and identify malicious activity on the Internet.According to Microsoft, who developed the concept, a honey monkey is an active client-based honey pot. The honey monkey behaves lik read more
SQL Injection attacks in the wild - why they're working and what…
Greg Hughes' Tech Blog | August 12th 2008
A bunch of IT and web-app teams have lost a lot of sleep lately... Over the past several days, a significant number (in the thousands) of web applications, some of them well-known and well-used, have fallen victim to a distributed SQL injection att read more
Stolen Flash Drive with Personal Info on 2,600 Delphi Workers
Endpoint Security in the News | August 11th 2008 by Alina
A flash drive containing private information on 2,600 former Dayton-area Delphi workers has recently been stolen from an unattended laptop of a Job and Family Services department employee. The information stored on said drive included names, addresse read more
Squid Proxy Server
My Avatar State | August 11th 2008 by Rex Bugcalao
Squid is a Unix-based proxy server that caches Internet content closer to a requestor than its original point of origin. Squid supports caching of many different kinds of Web objects, including those accessed through HTTP and FTP. Caching freque read more
Passport of the Future
itimes3 | August 11th 2008 by George Spark
[Category: Ideas. If you are new to my blog please read the "About itimes3" page first] Yesterday a friend of mine, who is prone to forgetting his passport as well as losing it from time to time due to forgetfulness, asked me: “George, what do read more
11 Arrested in the TJX Identity Theft and Data Breach Case
Endpoint Security in the News | August 6th 2008 by Alina
The FBI has arrested 11 people in the case of the largest identity theft and data breach in history that targeted TJX and other companies. The suspects of which three are US citizens are believed to have taken part in the theft of over 40 million cre read more
The Power of Perception & IT
The Pakistani Spectator | August 5th 2008 by The Pakistani Spectator
IT still has a perception problem. In some organizations, we continue to be seen as geeks that play with expensive toys. Sure, these toys power the business, but their necessity is often not indicated in a way that’s “business friendly.”Reali read more
Countrywide Employee Arrested For Stealing Customer Private Data
Endpoint Security in the News | August 5th 2008 by Alina
Californian FBI agents have recently arrested a Countrywide Financial Corp. employee suspected to have stolen personal information about the home mortgage lender’s customers. This new negative event puts a whole new pressure on the company who has read more
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