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Australia's welfare agency released the the draft implementation of PLAID last month. It created the new protocol because off-the-shelf solutions didn't match Centrelink's "business needs," Mitchell says.
It's just another way to get full privileges once you have physical access, but it looks nice and simple and even supports Windows 7 for Chrissakes!
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Handing down a year in the big house is a strong deterrent against those who may consider doing this type of thing in the future, but is it really the best judicial outcome?
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The report is essential reading; the post-mortem analysis of data breaches is to the information security industry what black-box flight recorder information is to the aviation industry. By understanding where things have gone wrong, we can avoid repeating the mistakes of some of our peers.
All enterprises must eventually accept that security is just one more part of software or system development lifecycle. Both designs and implementations must be reviewed, developers need security training and infosec teams need the power to veto go-live dates.
Under this Act, lawmakers are seeking to impose requirements on ISPs and wireless network operators to keep records about the identities of their users.
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The move seems to be an attempt to offer the BSD kernel within the Debian Linux userland environment. Users who install Debian's FreeBSD kernel will be able to use the BSD packet filter, pf, as well as other BSD-specific security features like jails.
The vulnerability affects versions of PowerPoint running on Windows and Apple OS X, security-vendor McAfee has reported.
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"They're making us roll out Active Directory," he whined, looking for sympathy from a fellow UNIXnerd. But the sad, awful truth is this: Windows infrastructure is actually usable -- and perhaps even securable -- in the enterprise.
Over the last few weeks you may have read reports of a computer virus named Conficker. It's sophisticated and has infected millions of systems.
Today on Risky Business 2 we speak with Lane Bess, the CEO of Palo Alto Networks. Founded by firewall pioneer Nir Zuk, Palo Alto makes what it calls a next generation firewall.
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Normally at these sorts of events protocol dictates that I have a sales department chaperone present at all times to make sure I use the correct fork for the shrimp cocktail, etc, and this was no exception.
Announced with little fanfare last week by iptables developer Patrick McHardy, the launch of the nftables alpha has barely been mentioned by the press.
The group claims the botnet has been targeting DroneBL's servers in a denial-of-service campaign for several weeks and is the first of its kind. It uses brute-force password cracking attempts to hijack any Linux mipsel routing device that uses insecure or common username and password pairs.
