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26.Is Wikileaks the Biggest Threat to National Security? (www.infosecisland.com)
What the files show are intimate details of the war in Afghanistan between Jan 2004 to Dec 2009. Irrespective of the nature of the information, it is those on the front line who potentially could suffer the most...
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27.Security - A Reason to Fire Employees or an Excuse? (www.infosecisland.com)
Think twice before you advice to dismiss an employee – assess all interests involved, and make a risk assessment to assess the potential business impact of your advice. And try to avoid becoming a tool of HR managers who want to get rid of people...
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28.UK ISP TalkTalk Monitoring its Customers Online Activity Without Consent. (www.ispreview.co.uk)
It's ok, only Chinese company Huawei have access to the data, say Talk Talk.
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29.Geo Location Based DDOS Targets Mobile Operators (www.infosecisland.com)
The sharp rise of smart mobile phones is introducing a new and concerning attack vector - a geo-location based DDOS...
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30.Vulnerability Management: The Changing Nature of Attacks (www.infosecisland.com)
Cyber terrorism, in addition to attacks on corporate networks, poses a direct threat to the U.S. military, civilian agencies and critical infrastructure. Because of the problems with attributing the attacks to the actual source, this threat has become difficult to contain...
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31.Still Using Excel for Risk Assessments? (www.infosecisland.com)
Risk assessment data and analysis with Excel is a collection of brittle, unwieldy, two dimensional worksheets is a really bad way of doing multi-dimensional modeling...
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32.Dell warns on spyware infected server motherboards. (www.theregister.co.uk)
Now that's what I call value added.
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33.Killed by Code: Software in Implanted Medical Devices (www.infosecisland.com)
Last week the Software Freedom Law Center released a paper which details several issues in the legal, regulatory and technical environment surrounding medical device security, liability, FDA response, secure coding and code escrow...
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34.Dr. InfoSec's Quotes of the Week (004) (www.infosecisland.com)
Who said: "Anyone who visits a social networking site should know that it's a business model. The service is not free. We users pay for it with our private data..."?
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35.Data Leakage Going Gaga - Update (www.infosecisland.com)
As the result of this earlier security breach, a classified video of a deadly 2007 helicopter attack in Baghdad was leaked to Wikileaks.org and then was posted on the Internet...
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Praetorian to Offer One Time, Cost Effective Security Assessments (www.marketwire.com)Recognizing the need to take incremental steps and garner internal management support towards a full-fledged third party security assessment program, Praetorian Security Group has created a one-time assessment product that mirrors the first quarter of activities in the Praetorian Enterprise Security Assessment at a discounted cost.
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Praetorian Prefect | PCI Rock, WTH? (praetorianprefect.com)Security Awareness Programs can be a daunting task. It is not atypical to try to mix security awareness programs with some element of fun, such as humor with a message. After all, playing off fear has a limited shelf life, may not be your personal style, and may alienate the audience. That said good humor is well…hard, and you risk being hokey to the point where your message, and even you, may not be taken seriously.
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38.Effective WiFi Neighborhood Watch Programs (www.infosecisland.com)
Neighborhood Watch groups typically focus on observation and awareness as a means of preventing crime and employ strategies that range from simply promoting social interaction and watching out for each other to active patrols by groups of citizens...
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39.What To Do With Old Hard Disks (www.infosecisland.com)
If you keep your old hard disk you will always have access to it as a point in time backup of what your old system had installed and what files you had at the time of your upgrade...
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40.ISO - It's a Bit Emotional (www.infosecisland.com)
It’s funny how even the most rational persons body stops co-operating when things get emotional. Your decision making ability is impaired and simple things such as walking in a straight line become quite challenging...
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41.Small Business - The New Target for Cybercriminals (www.infosecisland.com)
Now, cybercrime is undergoing a new phase by switching its focus to the susceptible assets of small businesses. According to a survey conducted by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, 85% of all business fraud occurs in small to medium-sized businesses...
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42.Prevention is More Cost Effective Than the Cure (www.infosecisland.com)
Negligent insider breaches have decreased in number and cost most likely resulting from training and awareness programs having a positive effect on employees’ sensitivity and awareness about the protection of personal information...
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A national competition has been launched to find the next generation of UK cyber security specialists.
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44.Keeping Kids Safe Online (www.infosecisland.com)
It is no surprise that cybercriminals are taking advantage of the Internet and the people who use it. Any parent with an ounce of sensibility should recognize that when your child is on the wild wild web, they are at the risk...
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45.Securing Your Mobile Workforce (www.infosecisland.com)
IT can no longer simply ignore the tsunami of remote intermittently connected computing devices that are used by the masses to access corporate resources, especially those that reside within and provided through a shared service or infrastructure...
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46.Money Laundering and FCPA Compliance (www.infosecisland.com)
Compliance risks are even greater for financial institutions operating in the international sphere. As with most compliance issues, anti-money laundering compliance requires close knowledge of the risk profile of the company...
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47.Spreading Ghosts Attacks (www.infosecisland.com)
USBsploit is a tool that is still in beta version and has been created by an Infosec researcher and owner of the popular portal Secubs. This tool makes it simple for any person looking to generate Backdoors within a few steps...
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48.NPR Report Warns of Cyberdefense Shortage (www.infosecisland.com)
James Gosler, who worked at the CIA, the National Security Agency and the Energy Department, estimates that there are only 1,000 or so people in the United States who have the skills necessary to meet our computer security needs. Quite a deficit, no?
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49.10 Ways to Prevent Social Media Scams (www.infosecisland.com)
The opportunity social media creates for criminals is to “friend” their potential victims in order to create a false sense of trust and use that against their victims in phishing or other scams...
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50.A Strong Case for Enterprise Rights Management (www.infosecisland.com)
Enterprise rights management software is an endpoint tool that manages and enforces information access policies and use rights of electronic documents within an enterprise; its development has been predicated on digital rights management technology...
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