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Entries from June 2006

AT&T privacy policy overreaches, lawyers say

June 30th, 2006 · No Comments

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.
SecurityFocus

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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

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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

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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.

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Tags: Blog · Humor

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?
SecurityFocus

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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.
SecurityFocus

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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.
SecurityFocus

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Tags: Critical infrastructure · Government · Research · Security · SecurityFocus