A recent change to AT&T’s privacy policy for broadband and video users has been labeled overbroad by legal experts, and likely will leave the courts or Congress to decide whether the company’s practices are standard or sinister.
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Entries from June 2006
AT&T privacy policy overreaches, lawyers say
June 30th, 2006 · No Comments
Tags: Critical infrastructure · Privacy · Security · SecurityFocus
COLUMN: Defending your Identity
June 26th, 2006 · No Comments
Hardly a week goes by without companies and universities losing digital identities. What can be done?
PC Magazine
Tags: Column · Consumer Tech · PC Magazine · Privacy · Security
USB drives pose insider threat
June 25th, 2006 · No Comments
Workers are more wary of putting giveaway CDs in their company’s computers, but USB flash drives are another story.
SecurityFocus
Tags: Cybercrime · Research · Security · SecurityFocus
I’ve also been known to write haikus…
June 23rd, 2006 · No Comments
CreditBloggers had an informal test of haiku skill, so I put fingers to keys and came up with this:
Obtuse addendum
Hides change to default language
Rates soar, debt deepens
Turns out I won the contest.
SCADA industry debates flaw disclosure
June 16th, 2006 · No Comments
Vulnerability researchers bring in US-CERT to referee the outing of an infrastructure bug, ruffling feathers as vendors and researchers clash over how disclosure should be handled. Sound familiar?
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Tags: Critical infrastructure · Government · Research · Security · SecurityFocus
Researchers eye machines to analyze malware
June 8th, 2006 · No Comments
Automated classification of malicious software could make recognition of threats faster and names more consistent, but researchers cannot agree on what such a system should look like.
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Tags: Research · Security · SecurityFocus · Viruses and worms
Cybersecurity contests go national
June 1st, 2006 · No Comments
It has all the makings of a B-movie plot: A corporate network targeted by hackers and a half dozen high-school students as the company’s only defense.
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Tags: Critical infrastructure · Government · Research · Security · SecurityFocus