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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Entries from June 2007
Lawmakers worry over gov’t network breaches
June 27th, 2007 · No Comments
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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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.
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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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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