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by Scott Wilson on March 3, 2010
Identity management may not be broadly thought of outside of the information security field, but the problems it seeks to address are an ever-increasing drag on networked commerce. The simple proble...
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by Scott Wilson on February 8, 2010
As Microsoft and other traditional enterprise IT vendors cede through inaction or befuddlement territory in the mobile and online services, it seems left to a few upstarts and the titans at Google and...
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by Scott Wilson on November 6, 2009
Google announced earlier this week that individual users would now have a consolidated way to access all data they have allowed the company to store for them in its many different products via a singl...
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by Scott Wilson on September 30, 2009
A confluence of circumstances have led to an explosion of security breaches in corporations over the past year, according to a study by Canadian security researchers. The number of breaches tripled th...
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by Scott Wilson on September 22, 2009
Oh, sure, just like Indiana Jones, the cover story Paul is using for his visit to the Mediterranean aboard his mega-yacht Tatoosh is that he is there for an underwater "archaeological dig" b...
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by Scott Wilson on August 13, 2009
It's been a pet peeve of mine for a while (gosh, while I was writing that I just flashed on Andy Rooney doing his weekly 60 Minutes bit... read it in his voice, it's eery; I'd better watch...
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by Scott Wilson on June 23, 2009
Science is now proving what bored e-mail server admins the world over have known for some time, which is that rudimentary mail traffic analysis can indicate ongoing or upcoming disruption within an or...
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by Scott Wilson on April 28, 2009
It's too early to say whether or not the swine flu will rise to pandemic proportions; so far, as is their wont, news media seem to be blowing the disease all out of proportion and public health ag...
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by Scott Wilson on April 22, 2009
An article by Bruce Perens just popped up on Slashdot discussing what he is calling a "Cyber-Attack" on April 9 in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties in Northern California. A slightly less...
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by Scott Wilson on March 16, 2009
Ghosts in the machines? Wandering monsters? Or just your regular old everyday software, phoning home spilling corporate secrets or violating privacy policies?
ISC handler Lorna Hutcheson pointed out ...
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by Scott Wilson on March 13, 2009
It's funny, usually the criminals and malcontents on the Internet are among the first to adopt new technology trends. But we had them beat with the whole aaS (as a Service) phenomena... until now....
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by Scott Wilson on February 3, 2009
As if Fannie Mae weren't already having enough troubles, it seems that at the height (depth?) of the credit market implosion late last year it was also suffering an insidious threat from within i...
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by Scott Wilson on January 15, 2009
I'm at the Seattle Tech Security conference today, and all I can tell you about it so far is that, despite quite a number of very excellent tools available, IT security today seems fundamentally b...
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by Scott Wilson on January 12, 2009
At a time when most of us have finally become accustomed to big, bot-generated, impersonal attacks becoming the primary threat vector for malicious external attacks on corporate IT systems, it appears...
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by Scott Wilson on December 24, 2008
Michael Krigsman at the ZDNet IT Failures blog turned up an interesting and somewhat frightening survey conducted recently by security firm Cyber-Ark. According to the survey (available for download...
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by Scott Wilson on November 20, 2008
I have to say that it's been off mine, of late; the economy, efficiency of operations, and innovation have been things which have taken up more of my focus recently. But off my custom security-re...
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by Scott Wilson on October 2, 2008
It's a fair bet that whatever issues you may have with employees taking home the odd stick of RAM or spare mouse, it hasn't added up to this saga at the naval Research Laboratory in Washington...
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by Scott Wilson on August 30, 2008
You have to consider the source, but it probably shouldn't surprise anyone who has been in the industry very long that a substantial portion of IT staff would plan to walk out the door with sensit...
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by Scott Wilson on August 13, 2008
We've seen the headlines before, most recently in the Russia/Estonia dispute which never escalated to armed conflict, but they're coming out again in the fighting between Russia and Georgia ov...
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by Scott Wilson on July 23, 2008
New developments are emerging this morning in the case of the IT engineer who allegedly shanghaied San Francisco's high speed fiber network by installing his own backdoor passwords in the system a...
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by Scott Wilson on July 17, 2008
A San Francisco computer engineer has been accused of creating a private backdoor in their new FiberWAN system and jailed with $5 million bail.
The city is still assessing the damage and determining ...
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by Scott Wilson on July 3, 2008
That's an over-simplification of the argument, of course, as all title lines are, but when you get right down to it, that's the implication of Jonathan Zittrain's concept of "generati...
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by Scott Wilson on April 15, 2008
Amusing anecdote from Sun's Jonathan Schwartz today with a cautionary lesson for CIOs everywhere buried in it.
The upshot is that, not long after Sun acquired MySQL, Schwartz and his team were vi...
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by Scott Wilson on April 11, 2008
It hadn't occured to me until I read this article that I have never heard of a security breach at Google. Sure, people game the search results system from time to time, but that's not the same...
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by Scott Wilson on March 29, 2008
Hopefully, dear readers, you are not among those many organizations which are currently undergoing sustained attack of their websites by the suddenly expanding iframe vulnerability designed to infect ...
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by Scott Wilson on February 12, 2008
So says IBM in their recent 2007 X-Force Security report, released yesterday.
I haven't done a year to year comparison of spam on any of the systems I monitor yet, but personally I haven't no...
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by Scott Wilson on January 25, 2008
I haven't seen a lot of detail about this yet, but fellow CW blogger Sue Walsh reports some additional information about the supposed Linux/Apache based exploit that may be infecting a surprising ...
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by Scott Wilson on January 21, 2008
I suppose that it was just a matter of time, but there is finally the first official word of Internet based attacks disrupting major public utility services. Unlike the shadowy attacks on Estonia last...
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by Scott Wilson on December 19, 2007
I see now that SIIA is offering a $500 bounty on software pirates found selling their warez on public auction sites over the holidays. The program only runs through January 30th and only the first 100...
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by Scott Wilson on December 4, 2007
Now I know that war rooms or control rooms or command centers or whatever you call them tend not to resemble, in real life, the classic "big screen" rooms popularized by "WarGames"...
