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[Chubb]

How To Make Hosted Web Security Services Work
18 May 2010, 12:45 pm

LinuxSecurity.com: Outsourcing Web security functions sounds good on paper, but how do you make hosted services work in your organization? A new Dark Reading report offers some answers.

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[Chubb]

EFF: Forget cookies, your browser has fingerprints
18 May 2010, 12:38 pm

LinuxSecurity.com: Even without cookies, popular browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox give Web sites enough information to get a unique picture of their visitors about 94 percent of the time, according to research compiled over the past few months by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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[Chubb]

Why open source won't prevent cloud lock-in
18 May 2010, 12:36 pm

LinuxSecurity.com: One of open source's promises is to minimize vendor lock-in. However, it's not so apparent that this value proposition holds when using software as a service (SaaS) or cloud-based platform services. The implication is clear: So-called open source cloud platforms, like the recently announced VMforce, are no more open than proprietary clouds -- and believing otherwise will trap you into unintended lock-in.

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[Chubb]

Managing the private encryption keys to the kingdom
18 May 2010, 12:34 pm

LinuxSecurity.com: At its core the PCI Data Security Standard is nothing more than a series of guidelines that constitute security best practices. But companies that institute programs to better protect cardholder data can also leverage and extend these efforts throughout their business, ensuring that other sensitive customer, employee and partner data is better protected.

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[Chubb]

Hacker Gary McKinnon to be Tried In Britian
17 May 2010, 11:48 pm

LinuxSecurity.com: Scots computer hacker Gary McKinnon is set to avoid extradition and be tried in Britain, the Scottish Sunday Express can reveal.  The 43-year-old's family expects confirmation from the new Government within days that the decision to send Gary to the USA has been overturned.

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[Chubb]

Review of Masters of Deception Posted
17 May 2010, 11:45 pm

LinuxSecurity.com: Amazon.com  just posted my three star review of Masters of Deception by Michelle Slatella and Joshua Quittner. From the review:  Masters of Deception (MOD) by Michelle Slatella and Joshua Quittner tells the tale of the self-proclaimed Masters of Deception, a phone phreaking and proto-computer hacker crew from the early 1990s.

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[Chubb]

Google says Street View cars collected WiFi data by mistake
17 May 2010, 12:02 pm

LinuxSecurity.com:  Google has admitted that it mistakenly collected data sent over WiFi networks using its Street View cars gathering images for Google's controversial Street View service.

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[Chubb]

Security Patching: What Your Vendors Aren't Telling You
17 May 2010, 12:00 pm

LinuxSecurity.com: In recent years, software manufacturers appeared to be increasing the transparency of communication about bugs. The Internet has allowed for rather rapid delivery of software patches, and Microsoft Corp. even releases details in its security bulletins and accompanying Webcasts. However, all is not what it seems...

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[Chubb]

Upcoming MySQL patch fixes several critical vulnerabilites
17 May 2010, 11:58 am

LinuxSecurity.com: William wrote in to let us know that the changelog to upcoming release to MySQL, version 5.1.47, has been released, and it appears this release fixes several critical vulnerabilities and probably should be applied as quickly as is reasonable.

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[Chubb]

Officials: Hacking was outside eatery
17 May 2010, 11:57 am

LinuxSecurity.com:   A security breach that has compromised the credit and debit cards of recent customers at the Mellow Mushroom in Warner Robins is believed to have occurred outside the restaurant, police and the restaurant's lawyer said Friday.

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[Chubb]

Consolidating access control yields big payoffs
14 May 2010, 5:48 pm

LinuxSecurity.com: Imagine how tedious life would be if you needed a separate, specially issued debit card for each grocery store, gas station, restaurant, pharmacy, department store or Web retailer that you patronized - and a separate password for each card, too.

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[Chubb]

Hackers Are Internet Shock Troops
14 May 2010, 5:46 pm

LinuxSecurity.com: Cyber-attack is an ever-present threat that can result in major damage to government and business web sites, as the following examples show.  U.S. and South Korea, 2009: Officials in both countries reported attacks in the summer, aimed mainly at government web sites, as well as financial services sites.

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[Chubb]

Facebook ups login security, outs hacker with 1.5M accounts
14 May 2010, 5:45 pm

LinuxSecurity.com: Facebook says it has discovered the identity of "Kirllos," the hacker who claimed to be selling 1.5 million Facebook logins on the black market last month. It turns out that Kirlios didn't quite have as many accounts as he originally claimed, though he did manage to sell a number of credentials to third parties.

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[Chubb]

Boffins warn on car computer security risk
14 May 2010, 5:44 pm

LinuxSecurity.com: Computer scientists have carried out one of the first detailed security analyses of the security implications of increased use of computer systems in cars, finding systems surprisingly easy to hack or disrupt.

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[Chubb]

Two Thirds Of All Phishing Attacks Carried Out By Single Group
14 May 2010, 1:06 pm

LinuxSecurity.com: Now this is a pretty surprising figure, we all know Phishing has become a big issue in recent years especially for financial institutions, but it still amazes me two-thirds of all attacks can come from a single group!

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