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Entries from June 2007

Lawmakers worry over gov’t network breaches

June 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Hearings on the Hill reveal a significant number of security breaches at the Departments of Commerce, Defense, Homeland Security, State and Energy.
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Tags: Critical infrastructure · Flaws and vulnerabilities · Government · Homeland Security · Security · SecurityFocus

Amero case spawns effort to educate

June 19th, 2007 · No Comments

Following a judge’s ruling to throw out a verdict based on faulty digital forensics, a group of security professionals, legal experts and educators look to the future.
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Tags: Cybercrime · Flaws and vulnerabilities · Government · Legal · Security · SecurityFocus

Group: Anti-hacking laws can hobble Net security

June 15th, 2007 · No Comments

A working group of security researchers, digital-rights activists and government prosecutors discuss whether bug hunters can find vulnerabilities in Web sites without violating laws.
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Tags: Cybercrime · Flaws and vulnerabilities · Research · SecurityFocus · Software

To catch an (ID) thief

June 15th, 2007 · No Comments

A great story appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle about a woman who happen to see the thief who had stolen her identity six months before. The woman, Karen Lodrick, followed and then, when she was found out, chased the thief through San Francisco.

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Tags: Blog · Consumer Tech · Cybercrime · Privacy · Security

Lifelock co-founder’s questionable past

June 7th, 2007 · No Comments

The Phoenix New Times has a good investigative piece on one of the co-founders of identity-protection firm Lifelock, Robert Maynard, Jr., who apparently has had a checkered past.

According to the piece, Maynard has filed for bankruptcy; he had to close down his previous company, a credit-repair service, after the federal government banned him from the [...]

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Tags: Blog · Consumer Tech · Journalism · Privacy

Judge nixes teacher’s conviction on porn pop-ups

June 6th, 2007 · No Comments

A Connecticut judge grants a new trial for substitute teacher Julie Amero, saying that forensics information discovered after her conviction has direct bearing on her case.
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Tags: Cybercrime · Flaws and vulnerabilities · Government · Legal · Security · SecurityFocus · Viruses and worms

Zero-day sales not “fair” — to researchers

June 1st, 2007 · No Comments

A security analyst tries his hand at selling two vulnerabilities and finds that economics and time are against him.
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Tags: Flaws and vulnerabilities · Government · Research · Security · SecurityFocus