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Al Gore Inadvertently Breaches Airport Security 2007-03-05 10:08:49 Former vice president Al Gore was involved in a security breach at the Nashville Airport when an American Airlines employee led him and his entourage around security, a clear violation of policy. “There are no exceptions. Everyone must go through security,” airport spokesperson Lynn Lowrance said. Wednesday at the Nashville Airport, Gore arrived [...] Read more:Inadvertently
ISU participates in Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition 2007-03-05 10:08:41 College students all over Illinois compete in various competitions every weekend, traveling, practicing and honing their craft. While everyone is aware of sports competitions, speech competitions and band competitions, not all are familiar with computer-securing competitions. Although this way of competing is rather unconventional, the competitions have only been going on for three [...] Read more:Cyber
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OMB: Agencies make headway with IT security 2007-03-05 10:08:38 The state of the government’s cybersecurity
position has improved over the past year, but significant holes remain, especially in the areas of categorizing the risk level of systems and training, according to the Office of Management and Budget. OMB found that more than 700 systems, including 397 managed by agencies, had not been [...]
‘Safest ever’ passport is not fit for purpose 2007-03-05 10:08:34 They are the “safest ever”, according to the Government. But the Daily Mail reveals today how easily a person’s identity can be stolen from new biometric passports. A shocking security gap allows the personal details and photograph in any electronic passport to be copied from the outside of the envelope in which it [...] Read more:lsquo
Turkey to block separatist Web sites 2007-03-05 09:06:39 Prompted by a recent spate of Internet-related crimes, members of the Parliament debated banning Web sites that publish materials countering the “indivisible unity of the Turkish state.” Prompted by a recent spate of Internet-related crimes, members of the Parliament’s Justice Subcommittee debated banning Web sites that publish materials countering the “indivisible unity of [...] Read more:block
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Wanted poster on MySpace 2007-03-05 09:06:29 Police have have created a MySpace
account for a serial bank robber hoping to enlist the millions who use the popular social networking site as a cyber posse to help track down the fugitive. The MySpace profile - Do You Know Me??? - is the work of Sgt. Jarrard Copeland from the Fort [...]
Stiffening at last, ICANN threatens Registerfly with legal action 2007-03-05 09:06:24 ICANN has finally firmed up in its battle with troublesome domain registrar Registerfly and looks ready to battle the company in court. In a letter from its powerhouse attorneys at Jones Day, ICANN accuses Registerfly of willfully refusing to comply with an accreditation audit as mandated in its Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA).
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Of ICANN and the Registerfly meltdown 2007-03-05 09:06:19 The scorn heaped upon ICANN
recently for its laissez faire attitude toward customer allegations of fraud by its accredited registrar Registerfly - a scandal in which ICANN spent the better part of a year repeatedly referring customers back to Registerfly, even in the face of overwhelming evidence of misconduct - has forced ICANN [...]
Homeland Security plays real reasonable on Real ID 2007-03-05 09:06:13 The Department of Homeland
Security fronted up as a reasonable gent yesterday when it granted state civil servants extra time to implement the Real ID Act. The long-awaited rules issued on Thursday in Washington DC, will ease the timetable for state governments to adopt the Act, and delay an initial insistence on RFID [...] Read more:Homeland Security
Motorola loses Razr domain name case 2007-03-05 09:06:07 Motorola has lost a battle to gain control of the domain
name motorazr.com because it failed to prove when it started using the term Moto Razr. The domain name will be kept by its US owner R3 Media. In a domain name dispute resolution process overseen by the Artibration and Mediation Center of [...] Read more:Motorola
VA mishandled computer data, panel told 2007-03-05 09:06:01 Department of Veterans Affairs computer data has been mishandled hundreds of times in the past 10 months and the agency has not followed multiple rules designed to keep personal information safe, according to testimony Wednesday before a congressional panel investigating the security problems. The most recent incident - a missing hard drive from [...]
Enterprises must avoid IP telephony for teleworkers or face attack 2007-03-05 06:47:02 Enterprises have been warned to avoid IP telephony
for staff engaged in teleworking. While tweaking firewalls for premium VoIP traffic allows easier remote access in a telework environment, it can also create a potential security hole putting the network at risk. “If users fail to change default settings, hackers can access a hole [...] Read more:attack
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New Bill to Improve Oversight of DHS Spending 2007-03-04 22:58:24 Reps. Anthony Weiner (D-New York) and Jeff Flake (R-Arizona), a long-time critic of pork and lame earmarks in Congress, introduced a bill yesterday that would improve oversight of the DHS grant process. Under the current system, money trickling down from DHS to the local level is not tracked centrally and often used inappropriately, [...] Read more:Improve
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Can Apple actually get worse at Security? 2007-03-04 22:58:19 I am heading to Taiwan tomorrow for an asian trip for this week and I decided to download some shows to watch on the flight over and while I am suffering from the inevitable jet-lag. Having missed the entire 24 phenomenon, I decided to buy the entire season 1 from iTunes. What a [...] Read more:Apple
Internet cafes found to be havens for dubious computing 2007-03-04 16:23:05 More than half of all illegal computer access in 2005 was made using computers at Internetcafes
, and about 70 percent of such cases in which suspects have not been identified were from cafe computers, according to the National Police Agency. The anonymity provided by Internet cafes helps impede the process of criminal [...] Read more:dubious
Web site to name teachers in trouble 2007-03-04 16:23:00 It’ll soon be easier for the public to find out about misbehaving teachers
in Florida. The state Department of Education is creating a Web site that will allow anyone to check disciplinary actions that could affect an educator’s teaching certificate, Education Commissioner Jeanine Blomberg told reporters Friday. When the new school year begins [...]
‘Naked Came The Passenger’ 2007-03-04 16:22:55 Hallowell runs the Transportation Security Administration’s research lab. Four years ago, she volunteered to be scanned by a backscatter X-ray machine, which sees through clothing. She was wearing a skirt and a blazer. But in the picture, she’s as good as naked. Last week, TSA began using backscatters to screen airline passengers for [...] Read more:lsquo
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Don’t get caught in the Net 2007-03-04 13:10:42 Cyberspace can be compared to a car; it can run over innocent victims, but it can also rush sick people to hospital. The use of the Internet by children and teenagers (as well as adults) can be a boon for informing, educating, entertaining, bringing people together and empowering the disabled. But it can [...]
Credit card fraud exposed 2007-03-04 12:03:12 Its confidential information - about your money. But Channel 4 has discovered the personal details of hundreds of thousands of Britons are being sold illegally in India - on a vast scale. An investigation for the Dispatches programme has revealed just how easy it is to buy secret financial information for as little [...] Read more:Credit card fraud
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More on the cost of breaches 2007-03-04 12:03:07 When author recently expressed his frustration that TJX’s stock hit a one-year high despite revelations of their recent huge security breach, datasecurity over at PCI Compliance Demystified responded by suggesting that the costs to TJX would be very high. So here’s a hypothetical to mull over, involving three situations: 1. A merchant not [...] Read more:breaches
Cash for honours ‘cover-up’ email sparked Goldsmith gag 2007-03-04 12:03:03 A confidential Downing Street email was at the centre of the dramatic intervention by the Attorney General into the cash-for-honours investigation, it can be revealed. Details of the email relating to one of Tony Blair’s closest aides and a senior Labour Party fund-raiser had been obtained by the BBC which was preparing to [...] Read more:Goldsmith
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New book on Cybercrime 2007-03-04 12:02:59 Cybercrime is written by the leading academic experts and government officials who team together to present a state-of-the-art vision for how to detect and prevent digital crime, creating the blueprint for how to police the dangerous back alleys of the global Internet. For more details : www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814799833/ref= pe_pe_5050_4942960_pe_snp_833
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European Network and Information Security Agency 2007-03-04 12:02:54 The European
Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) is an agency of the European Union. ENISA was created in 2004 by EU. The objective of ENISA is to improve network and information security in the European Union. The agency has to contribute to the development of a culture of network and information security [...]
U.K. local gov’t staff may face identity theft 2007-03-04 12:02:45 Worcestershire county council has confirmed that a laptop belonging to IT supplier Serco Solutions containing sensitive information on more than 16,000 staff has been stolen. The laptop, which contained names, addresses, national insurance and bank account details was stolen in a street robbery last week. A council spokesperson confirmed that the data security [...] Read more:identity
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