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Social Media Monitoring: A Rubric for Control
February 21, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
We have become a watched commodity via all means of communication. Programs have been put together with the veneer of protecting us from another 9/11 and perhaps some of them were made with the best of intentions, but this idea of monitoring social media is half baked...
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Infosec Island's Javvad Malik and Black Hat Europe 2012
February 19, 2012
Infosec Island's Javvad Malik will be on site at the Black Hat Europe conference in Amsterdam conducting video interviews and - no doubt - interjecting his trademark brand of humor while exploring cutting edge infosec trends and developments...
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The Security Impact of Putting it in the Cloud
February 20, 2012 Added by:Robb Reck
nd. Information security must not be the roadblock that prevents the adoption of such technology. By thinking ahead about the kinds of risks that outsourcing our systems will involve, we can be ready to quickly and securely lead our organization into the cloud...
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McAfee Report: No Immunity from Targeted Attacks
February 22, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“The threat landscape continued to evolve in 2011, and we saw a significant shift in motivation for cyber attacks. Increasingly, we’ve seen that no organization, platform or device is immune to the increasingly sophisticated and targeted threats..."
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A Security Resolution for Developers
February 22, 2012 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
You can’t understand how applications will be attacked if you don’t know how they work. Applications ultimately transmit data and operate on hardware in a network. Developers need to understand protocols, dependencies, communications, encryption, and more...
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IPv6 Protocol Implementation is Not a Security Panacea
February 22, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"The same thing that made the IPv6-enabled Internet valuable has also made it an increasingly valuable venue for attacks. While the frequency of attacks is relatively modest on IPv6 today, we expect that accelerated adoption will be followed in-kind by an accelerated pace of attacks..."
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The CISO as a Capable Catalyst
February 22, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
"If a CISO initially receives any capability when starting the position, that was capability that was left over from their predecessor. It is now the CISO's responsibility to earn more capability and solidify what may already exist..."
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NIST Pursues Health Record System Usability Testing
February 22, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) seeks manufacturers of electronic health record (EHR) systems to participate in a research effort to develop methods for assessing the usability of health information systems...
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Anonymous, NSA, Power Grids and False Flags
February 22, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
Anonymous has never officially made a statement about attacking the power infrastructure at all. Sure, there were some drops of IP addresses in the recent past that they claimed were SCADA systems, but were only for HVAC systems. So where is the NSA getting this?
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US and Netherlands Expand Cybersecurity Coordination
February 22, 2012 Added by:Headlines
The Letter of Intent recognizes expanded coordination between the US and the Netherlands, and outlines several areas to further collaborate on cybersecurity including incident management and response activities, control systems security, and cybersecurity exercises...
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Algorithms: When is Random Really Random?
February 22, 2012 Added by:Alan Woodward
The fact that we rely upon pseudorandom numbers is a potential problem for IT security. If a machine is using a known algorithm to generate a number that your system then treats as random, what is to stop an attacker from calculating that same number if he knows your algorithm...
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