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Source: InfoWorld - Posted by Alex
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Go ahead and ask CSOs from the nation's largest banks about the myriad distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks they've experienced in recent months. They're not going to tell you anything. |
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Source: Network World - Posted by Dave Wreski
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Revelations over the U.S. National Security Agency's Prism surveillance program have much of the general public in uproar, but in terms of the controversy's impact to enterprise IT, some CIOs have measured, albeit watchful reactions. |
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Source: ABS-CBN News - Posted by Dave Wreski
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The hacker who released what he claimed were the mobile phone numbers of President Aquino said his act was not cyber vandalism. |
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Source: Wired - Posted by Alex
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Don’t read this if you aren’t him. |
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Source: Schneier on Security - Posted by Dave Wreski
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There's one piece of blowback that isn't being discussed -- aside from the fact that Snowden killed the chances of a liberal arts major getting a job at the DoD for a decade -- and that's how the massive NSA surveillance of the Internet affects the US's role in Internet governance. |
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Source: Information Week - Posted by Dave Wreski
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Convicted LulzSec hacker Ryan Cleary, 21, is set to be released "imminently" after appearing Wednesday in a London courtroom for sentencing relating to charges that he made and possessed 172 indecent images of children on his PC. |
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Source: eSecurity Planet - Posted by Dave Wreski
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How does Red Hat go about building and developing a secure Linux operating system? That question was asked and answered at the Red Hat Summit this week by Josh Bressers, who heads the Red Hat Product Security Team. |
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Source: LinuxSecurity Contributors - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
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Thank you for reading the Linux Advisory Watch Security Newsletter.
The purpose of this document is to provide our readers with a quick
summary of each week's vendor security bulletins and pointers on
methods to improve the security posture of your open source system. |
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Source: Inquirer - Posted by Alex
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FILE STORAGE ENTREPRENEUR Kim Dotcom has released a video of the police raid on his house in January 2012. |
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Source: TechWorld - Posted by Dave Wreski
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Google has detected large-scale phishing attacks targeting users in Iran, ahead of presidential elections in the country.
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Source: H Security - Posted by Dave Wreski
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The Debian project is warning users that the unofficial Debian Multimedia repository now has to be considered unsafe. According to the Debian maintainers, the debian-multimedia.org domain is not being used by the maintainers of the unofficial repository any more and is now registered to a party unknown to the Debian project. |
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Source: Wired - Posted by Dave Wreski
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Inside Fort Meade, Maryland, a top-secret city bustles. Tens of thousands of people move through more than 50 buildings—the city has its own post office, fire department, and police force. But as if designed by Kafka, it sits among a forest of trees, surrounded by electrified fences and heavily armed guards, protected by antitank barriers, monitored by sensitive motion detectors, and watched by rotating cameras. |
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Source: Schneier on Security - Posted by Dave Wreski
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Edward Snowden broke the law by releasing classified information. This isn't under debate; it's something everyone with a security clearance knows. It's written in plain English on the documents you have to sign when you get a security clearance, and it's part of the culture. The law is there for a good reason, and secrecy has an important role in military defense. |
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Source: CSO Online - Posted by Alex
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Mozilla, maker of the popular Firefox web browser, and dozens of political, technology and business groups launched a campaign Tuesday calling for action against federal agencies snooping on citizens on the Internet.
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