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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 284 days ago
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After the Xmas holidays, the requests for help of our friends that got themselves a new computer was due. This mandatory free consultancy at least helps us to keep in touch with how the security problems affect to real people instead of corporate business.Let me share with you my lessons learned (mainly on Vista security incidents) in a reverse ordered list with 5 ideas that I would like to spread to create some awareness among computer users:5. Implement security from the beginning. Security is not someth read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 276 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn home office laptop disc bought ebay comments Discuss  
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39352977,00.htmBy David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk28 Feb 2008The Home Office is investigating the apparent sale of one of its laptops, along with an encrypted data disc, on eBay.The laptop had been bought on the auction site then taken to an IT company near Manchester for repairs. The technicians at the repair centre, at Leapfrog Computers in Westhoughton, subsequently found an encrypted Home Office disc underneath the keyboard.Leapfrog sales manager Jonathan Parry tol read more »
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Category: vulnerabilities | Posted by Avatar Staff 258 days ago
Via: http://secunia.com | Tags: home ftp server passive mode denial service comments Discuss  
0in has discovered a vulnerability in Home FTP Server, which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).Be sure to check if your system is missing security updates or have insecure applications installed:http://secunia.com/software_inspector/Feature Overview - The Secunia Software Inspector: * Detects insecure versions of applications installed * Verifies that all Microsoft patches are applied * Assists you in updating your system and applications * Runs through your browser. No read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 159 days ago
Via: http://blog.washingtonpost.com | Tags: report china home malicious web sites comments Discuss  
More than half of the Web sites foisting malicious software on visitors are located at networks in China, according to data released today. Stopbadware.org, a joint project between researchers at Harvard, Oxford and Google, found that 52 percent of the more than 200,000 infected sites the group analyzed in late May were hosted at Chinese networks. In contrast, U.S.-based networks accounted for 21 percent of the bad sites, Stopbadware found. The sites examined in the...Please click on the title to continue read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 153 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn burglars break cabinet secretarys home steal laptop comments Discuss  
From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 01:40:43 -0500 (CDT)http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/997571.htmlBy Haaretz Service30/06/2008 Burglars broke into the house of Cabinet Secretary Oved Yehezkel in Ramle Monday night, stealing a laptop computer, two cellular telephones and a case containing documents.According to the police, the stolen items did not include classified or significant information.The Prime Minister's Bureau confirmed that the stolen computer was new and read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 108 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: home office reaches halfway hash secure data handling comments Discuss  
Encryption bureau to operate like internal post officeAnalysis The UK Home Office has introduced procedures to handle encrypted personal data from external partners. However, guidelines on how the new Home Office Central Cryptography service will work raise concerns about possible shortcomings with the service which, while a big improvement, falls below best practice in sectors such as banking.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 104 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: vodafone exec stabbed death country home comments Discuss  
Man questionedPolice are questioning a man following the murder of a senior Vodafone UK executive on Saturday.… read more »
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Category: vulnerabilities | Posted by Avatar Staff 104 days ago
Via: http://secunia.com | Tags: wsftp home professional format string vulnerability comments Discuss  
securfrog has discovered a vulnerability in WS_FTP Home and Professional, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system.Be sure to check if your system is missing security updates or have insecure applications installed:http://secunia.com/software_inspector/Feature Overview - The Secunia Software Inspector: * Detects insecure versions of applications installed * Verifies that all Microsoft patches are applied * Assists you in updating your system and applications * Ru read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 94 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn british hacker gary mckinnon final appeal home secretary extradition comments Discuss  
From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:07:41 -0500 (CDT)http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4628575.eceBy David BrownThe TimesAugust 29, 2008A UFO enthusiast who hacked into top-secret US military computers appealed to the Home Secretary yesterday to stop his extradition after losing a legal appeal.Gary McKinnon is due to be extradited to the United States within two weeks and could face a sentence of up to 80 years in a maximum-security prison if found read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 89 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn mckinnon supporters appeal home office comments Discuss  
From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 01:05:49 -0500 (CDT)http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2225136/mckinnon-supporters-cause-homeBy David Nealvnunet.com02 Sep 2008Lawyers for Gary McKinnon, the hacker who broke into Nasa computers, have appealed to the Home Secretary in a bid to stop him being jailed in the US.McKinnon and his lawyers are concerned that if he is extradited to the US he could face up to 70 years in jail and millions of pounds in fines and are appealing to the UK read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 79 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: ms defends phone home feature clarifies privacy policy comments Discuss  
Microsoft Friday defended the Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) tool that suggests sites based on the URLs typed into its address bar, saying that the browser "phones home" only a limited amount of information to Microsoft and that the company discards all user IP addresses almost immediately. read more »
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