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Effective WiFi Neighborhood Watch Programs
July 26, 2010 Added by:Christopher Burgess
Neighborhood Watch groups typically focus on observation and awareness as a means of preventing crime and employ strategies that range from simply promoting social interaction and watching out for each other to active patrols by groups of citizens...
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What To Do With Old Hard Disks
July 26, 2010 Added by:Rod MacPherson
If you keep your old hard disk you will always have access to it as a point in time backup of what your old system had installed and what files you had at the time of your upgrade...
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ISO - It's a Bit Emotional
July 26, 2010 Added by:Javvad Malik
It’s funny how even the most rational persons body stops co-operating when things get emotional. Your decision making ability is impaired and simple things such as walking in a straight line become quite challenging...
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Small Business - The New Target for Cybercriminals
July 26, 2010 Added by:Theresa Payton
Now, cybercrime is undergoing a new phase by switching its focus to the susceptible assets of small businesses. According to a survey conducted by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, 85% of all business fraud occurs in small to medium-sized businesses...
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Prevention is More Cost Effective Than the Cure
July 26, 2010 Added by:Joe Morrissey
Negligent insider breaches have decreased in number and cost most likely resulting from training and awareness programs having a positive effect on employees’ sensitivity and awareness about the protection of personal information...
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Dr. InfoSec's Quotes of the Week (004)
July 25, 2010 Added by:Christophe Veltsos
Who said: "Anyone who visits a social networking site should know that it's a business model. The service is not free. We users pay for it with our private data..."?
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Keeping Kids Safe Online
July 25, 2010 Added by:Robert Siciliano
It is no surprise that cybercriminals are taking advantage of the Internet and the people who use it. Any parent with an ounce of sensibility should recognize that when your child is on the wild wild web, they are at the risk...
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Do you Need the Ultimate Countermeasure?
July 25, 2010 Added by:Ron Lepofsky
IT security groups that are feeling pressure from their external auditors, their IT security governance committee, or from their compliance committee to provide the next level of compliance and security assurance need to pull out the big gun...
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CyberScope – Offensive Cyber Weaponry System
July 25, 2010 Added by:Dan Dieterle
Rsignia develops and creates cyber security solutions that detect, capture and monitor modern threats. It has the ability to detect incoming threats, and then block, disable, or counterattack, all at real time speed...
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Money Laundering and FCPA Compliance
July 24, 2010 Added by:Michael Volkov
Compliance risks are even greater for financial institutions operating in the international sphere. As with most compliance issues, anti-money laundering compliance requires close knowledge of the risk profile of the company...
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NPR Report Warns of Cyberdefense Shortage
July 23, 2010 Added by:Global Knowledge
James Gosler, who worked at the CIA, the National Security Agency and the Energy Department, estimates that there are only 1,000 or so people in the United States who have the skills necessary to meet our computer security needs. Quite a deficit, no?
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10 Ways to Prevent Social Media Scams
July 23, 2010 Added by:Robert Siciliano
The opportunity social media creates for criminals is to “friend” their potential victims in order to create a false sense of trust and use that against their victims in phishing or other scams...
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A Strong Case for Enterprise Rights Management
July 23, 2010 Added by:Peter Abatan
Enterprise rights management software is an endpoint tool that manages and enforces information access policies and use rights of electronic documents within an enterprise; its development has been predicated on digital rights management technology...
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Washington Post Launches Top Secret America
July 23, 2010 Added by:Lee Mangold
So let me ask the Islanders some questions: Do you think this is responsible reporting? Is it right to publish the locations of the Nations secrets to the world? If you're outside of the US, how would you feel about this in your country?
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Compliance - Don't Be a Box Checker
July 22, 2010 Added by:Bryan Miller
Whether the data represents your personal health records, your financial statements or your latest credit card bill, the goal is the same. The guardians of that data have a legal, ethical, moral and some would say religious obligations to protect that data...
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Weaponizing the Nokia N900 - Part 1
July 22, 2010 Added by:shawn merdinger
From a surveillance aspect, think of bad people with n900s in their pockets running Asterisk servers on their phones and connecting to each other point-to-point over encrypted tunnels - now that's a challenge...
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Default, Blank and Weak Username/Passwords
July 22, 2010 Added by:Application Security, Inc.
Application Security, Inc.’s Team SHATTER has researched the Top 10 Database Vulnerabilities in order to you with the most up-to-date vulnerabilities, risk and remediation information. Today’s topic is Default, Blank & Weak Username/Passwords...
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A Contractor Solution for Cyber Warriors
July 22, 2010 Added by:Jon Stout
The bottom line is that the Federal Government needs highly qualified cyberwarriors in order to protect the welfare of the nation. When one compares this specialized need, the best choice is contractor provided employees...
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Hacking Layer 8 - Wetware
July 22, 2010 Added by:Ron Baklarz
One can certainly see this train wreck coming with the potential for company names to be plastered all over the Internet with the embarrassing results of their social engineering-induced data leakage...
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Internet Threat Monitoring Environments
July 22, 2010 Added by:Brent Huston
HITME is a set of deployed HoneyPoints that gather real time attacker data from around the Internet including attack sources, frequency, targeting information, vulnerability patterns, exploits, malware and other crucial event data for the technical team to analyze...
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Infosec Island v2
December 24, 2011The latest version of Infosec Island is now available. There are more content options and more ways to connect and interact with your peers.
Thanks to everyone for a great year, and we're looking forward to an excellent 2012!