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Jay Foley, co-founder of the Identity Theft Resource Center, told me recently that 57 percent of all identity fraud involves opening new accounts “for short-term gain.” The ITRC should know: it has been surveying ID fraud victims for several years and has amassed some impressive real-world statistics.
Foley also said …
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LAS VEGAS–This year marks my ninth year of attending Black Hat in Las Vegas. From a small gathering of security professionals in 2000 to an uberconference in 2008, Black Hat has scaled well. And the transition from private company to corporate-owned also appears smooth. But hardly anyone’s here yet.
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It will look like this: Black Hat 2008: Notes from the field
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LAS VEGAS–On the second day of the Black Hat security conference, a trio of journalists turned on other journalists within the press room.
This was my ninth Black Hat in nine years, and I have lived in dread year after year that such a headline would affect me. On Thursday, …
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It’s a question I get asked a lot: what’s a good way to remember passwords for a computer?
Here’s how Christopher Horn over at Real Simple
chose to answer it:
Writing down random log-in user names and passwords is unsafe and leaves them vulnerable to getting lost.
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For the last few months, I’ve been hearing some well-regarded security people tell me they are considering ditching their antivirus protection all together. They haven’t done it, but these individuals feel the days of having a special application scan to remove malware on your desktop are numbered. Malware
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For the last week, I’ve written that Dan Kaminsky undertook unprecedented action in coordinating a variety of vendors in secret over the last six months. Ari Takanen, co-founder and chief technology officer of Codenomicon, wrote to challenge that notion.
In an e-mail on Thursday, Takanen cited his work on …
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Gaining the ability to remotely control your HVAC might seem like an energy-responsible thing to do, but it might also pose hidden security risks.
In a recent blog titled Security implications in HVAC equipment SANS handler Swa Frantzen wrote of his concerns regarding one energy-saving program in Texas. The utility, …
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Programming note: As of Friday, July 11, 2008, Defense in Depth will now only carry my weekly column plus additional commentary on the state of computer security. My security news blogs will instead appear under the CNET News Security banner going forward. And my CNET News Security Bites podcasts can …
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On Thursday, Check Point Software Technologies released updated versions of all its ZoneAlarm products, addressing an incompatibility with a patch Microsoft released earlier this week.
The fix requires ZoneAlarm users to download the latest version, 7.0.438.000, from its site. A reboot is required to complete installation.
Since
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It will look like this: ZoneAlarm updated after Microsoft’s DNS patch
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Following a security researcher’s announcement of a massive, multivendor patch release, Cisco on Tuesday issued a patch for its products vulnerable to DNS cache-poisoning attacks.
In an advisory, Cisco cited its IOS software, Network Registrar, Application and Content Networking System, and Global Site Selector used in combination with Cisco …
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