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Communicating the importance of security risk and the need for related investment to those less familiar is no easy task, but industry experts agree there are a few techniques that you can follow as a CSO, CISO, or project manager to help get your point across and curry favor with other business leaders. read more »
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Microsoft can't build the next generation of trusted computer systems on its own, the company's chief research and strategy officer said Tuesday. read more »
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Ministers of state and justice from the Group of Eight nations brought the issue of identification crime to an annual summit for the first time on Thursday. read more »
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A security researcher who was set to speak at the Black Hat hacker convention in Las Vegas next week on a previously undiscovered flaw in Apple's FileVault encryption system has canceled his talk, citing confidentiality agreements with the Cupertino computer maker. Charles Edge, a researcher from Georgia, had been slated to discuss his research on a weakness that could be used to defeat FileVault encryption on the Mac. But sometime last week, Black Hat organizers...Please click on the title to continue rea read more »
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A security researcher who was set to speak at the Black Hat hacker convention in Las Vegas next week on a previously undiscovered flaw in Apple's FileVault encryption system has canceled his talk, citing confidentiality agreements with the Cupertino computer maker. Charles Edge, a researcher from Georgia, had been slated to discuss his research on a weakness that could be used to defeat FileVault encryption on the Mac. But sometime last week, Black Hat organizers...Please click on the title to continue rea read more »
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 04:08:23 -0500 (CDT)http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10006163-83.htmlBy Robert VamosiCNet.com SecurityAugust 4, 2008 LAS VEGAS -- A panel discussion with Apple employees talking about the company's security practices was canceled by its moderator.Black Hat founder and director Jeff Moss told ComputerWorld that "it was them talking about security engineering and how they take security seriously. It would have put Apple in a positive ligh read more »
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 04:03:45 -0500 (CDT)http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10008152-83.htmlBy Robert VamosiSecurity - News.comAugust 6, 2008LAS VEGAS -- On the eve of this year's Black Hat Briefings, officials disputed a researcher's claim that his talk had to be canceled. They say the talk never even existed.Last Thursday, researcher Charles Edge told Brian Krebs of the Washington Post that a talk on a previously disclosed flaw within the encryption for Apple Fi read more »
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A security researcher who was set to speak at the Black Hat hacker convention in Las Vegas next week on a previously undiscovered flaw in Apple's FileVault encryption system has canceled his talk, citing confidentiality agreements with the Cupertino computer maker. Charles Edge, a researcher from Georgia, had been slated to discuss his research on a weakness that could be used to defeat FileVault encryption on the Mac. But sometime last week, Black Hat organizers...Please click on the title to continue rea read more »
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LAS VEGAS, NEV. -- Roughly 85 percent of Fortune 500 companies have patched their networks to fix a security flaw that lets cyber criminals redirect visitors to counterfeit or malicious Web sites, but Internet users still remain at grave risk due to the large number of infrastructure providers that have not yet addressed the issue, a prominent security researcher warned today. The data comes from a talk presented here at the Black Hat security conference...Please click on the title to continue reading this read more »
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Barn door closed a little too lateDefcon A federal judge on Saturday barred three Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduates from publicly presenting research at Defcon demonstrating gaping holes in the electronic payment systems of one of the nation's biggest transit agencies.… read more »
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) plans to appeal a U.S. District Court order imposing a temporary injunction on a Defcon presentation that would have detailed flaws in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) electronic ticketing system. read more »
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