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Category Archives: Information Security News
InfoSec Defenders are “Losers” per RSA
March 26, 2012 – 6:00 am
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The annual RSA Conference in San Francisco is a great event for meeting and greeting, A record of some 20,000 visitors was claimed to have attended the latest conference during the last week of February, 2012. Visitors have an opportunity to see and touch the latest vendor creations in one place…
Pump and Dump and Pump Again
February 6, 2012 – 6:00 am
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In the January 27, 2012 issue of The Wall Street Journal, Jean Eaglesham and Andrew Ackerman wrote an article with the title “SEC Says Latvian Hacked Accounts: Commission Alleges Four Firms Helped Trader Make Unauthorized Online Stock Purchases and Sales.” The article describes the apparent…
China Chamber Hack
January 23, 2012 – 6:00 am
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Siobhan Gorman is back in strong form on the front page of the December 21, 2011 Wall Street Journal with her article “China Hackers Hit U.S. Chamber,” which suggests at first glance that hackers made from porcelain were successfully thrown into some U.S. person’s bedroom. However, the…
Normative Cyber Security
October 24, 2011 – 6:00 am
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Joel Brenner’s new book, America the Vulnerable – Inside the New Threat Matrix of Digital Espionage, Crime, and Warfare (The Penguin Press, 2011), is another book of the genre of Richard Clarke’s several volumes of non-fiction, such as his most recent book, published with Robert Knake, Cyber…
The FFIEC and Password-Generating Tokens
August 29, 2011 – 6:00 am
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In June 2011, the FFIEC (Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council) issued a “Supplement to Authentication in an Internet Banking Environment,” available at http://www.ffiec.gov/pdf/Auth-ITS-Final%206-22-11%20(FFIEC%20Formated).pdf The FFIEC comprises five financial regulatory…
