Items Tagged with "Security"
The Patchwork Cloud: Making the Security Case
May 05, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
When we think about cloud computing we can think of security as getting a bit of a gentle push, or shove in some cases. The way it is built and billed as services instead of individual components, and the increased emphasis on automation - security has a real chance of not being a roadblock...
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Healthcare Data: I Trust You to Keep this Private
May 03, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
In this article, Danny Lieberman talks about the roles that trust, security and privacy play in online healthcare interactions. At the end of the article, he introduces the idea of private social networking for healthcare – leaving the piece open for a sequel...
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When Security and Privacy Wrestle Who is the Winner?
April 30, 2012 Added by:Theresa Payton
You need to make sure your voice is heard. Regardless of whether or not you love the idea or do not like the idea at all, you need to weigh in. It is an important part of the process to make sure we get the best chance and striking a balance between security and privacy...
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Good Security Starts at Home
April 23, 2012 Added by:Ben Rothke
Not a day goes by without yet another spate of privacy and security issues. Threats to the security, privacy and personal information continue to increase in scope and complexity. To maintain competitive edge, vendors and service providers are scrambling to keep up...
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Projectile Dysfunction
April 13, 2012 Added by:Ron Baklarz
Was it me or when they showed the North Korean Space Control Center did it not look like a group of students at a code fest? Seriously, there were no large screens for tracking and I’ve seen more computing power at the local senior citizens home...
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A Navy SEAL Provides Lessons on Security
April 12, 2012 Added by:Ali-Reza Anghaie
Powerful Peace absolutely applies in our field. Information Security professionals can draw out the roadmap to economic and potential physical catastrophe. In this field we won't have the benefit of hindsight, we need to get it right before it gets out of control...
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Security Leaders Give Up
April 12, 2012 Added by:T.H. Enders
Breaking News: In uncanny synchronicity, CISOs, CSOs, auditors, and security consultants up and walked off their jobs today. It's hard to say what the repercussions will be. Pundits, analysts, and DHS are still trying to get a clear picture of the breadth of the problem...
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Credit Unions and Small Banks Need Strong Security Relationships
April 05, 2012 Added by:Brent Huston
Smaller organizations need to leverage simple, effective and scalable solutions to achieve success. They simply won’t have the manpower to manage overwhelming alerts, too many log entries or some of the other basic mechanisms of infosec...
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Mind Control Security Awareness
April 03, 2012 Added by:Pete Herzog
ISECOM's SmarterSaferBetter seminar teaches you to actively keep on re-filtering. Doing it right by being alerted to prompts is the best way to keep your guard up, because actively filtering your world is truly exhausting. And being tired is when we make security mistakes...
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Authorities Apprehend the Hacktivist Known as th3j35t3r
March 31, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
In a shocking turn of events, the hacktivist known as th3j35t3r has been identified as Robert "Lance" Miller from Pittsboro, North Carolina. Mr Miller is now in police custody after the multi-agency operation took place in the early hours of the morning on April 1st, 2012...
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Experts Warn of Online Voting Security Issues
March 30, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“Election officials who run and pursue online voting programs must understand that they are putting voters’ ballots at risk of being altered or deleted without anyone realizing it,” said Susannah Goodman of the Election Verification Network...
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Protect Yourself from Vishing Scams
March 30, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
Vishing occurs when criminals cold-call victims and attempt to persuade them to divulge personal information over the phone. These scammers are generally after credit card numbers and personal identifying information, which can then be used to commit financial theft...
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IP Address Leads Police to Shootout with French Terrorist
March 24, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
Elite French special operation RAID Police took down the radical Muslim terrorist Mohamed Merah on Thursday. Merah had contacted one of his victims, a French soldier, on the pretext of buying his scooter. Investigators were able to match Merah to his IP address...
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Social Media Security Basics: An Infographic
March 22, 2012 Added by:Fergal Glynn
Social networking has quickly become a major medium for communications for both individuals and organizations, but the platforms that allow the development of online personae are not without their own inherent risks. These social media security basics everyone should embrace...
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Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive
March 20, 2012 Added by:Ben Rothke
Liars and Outliers is an absolutely fascinating and groundbreaking book. In this election year where the candidates attempt to make sweeping simplistic promises to fix complex problems, Schneier simply answers that in our complex society, there are no simple answers...
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Assessment of Visual Voicemail Security
March 19, 2012 Added by:Enno Rey
After activation of the VVM feature, the configuration file is stored containing the username, protocol, state of the account and the server IP. Having the username and server IP an attacker can run brute force attacks against the email server which is exposed to the Internet...