[ISN] Sniffer dog threatens online privacy

2005-02-11 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/10/sniffer_dog_ruling/ By Mark Rasch, SecurityFocus 10th February 2005 Comment - The Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution is supposed to be the one that protects people and their houses, places and effects against unreasonable searches. Forty-two years

[ISN] Security UPDATE -- Safer Mobile Surfing -- February 9, 2005

2005-02-11 Thread InfoSec News
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[ISN] Hackers target state's computer network

2005-02-11 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.adn.com/front/story/6140359p-6022520c.html By SEAN COCKERHAM Anchorage Daily News February 10th, 2005 JUNEAU -- The FBI is looking into a recent rash of cyberattacks that hit the state's computer network. We are aware of it and it is a pending investigation so there is really very

[ISN] BlackBerry maker gets NIST nod

2005-02-11 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2005/0207/web-nistberry-02-10-05.asp By Florence Olsen Feb. 10, 2005 National Institute of Standards and Technology officials named Research in Motion, the Canadian maker of the wireless BlackBerry, as the recipient today of NIST's 500th cryptographic module

[ISN] Hackers Quickly Target Newly Disclosed Microsoft Flaw

2005-02-11 Thread InfoSec News
http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=60300331 By Gregg Keizer TechWeb News Feb. 10, 2005 It didn't take hackers long to start banging hard on the vulnerabilities Microsoft disseminated Tuesday. Just a day after the Redmond, Wash.-based developer rolled out a dozen

[ISN] Flaw in mail-list software leaks passwords

2005-02-11 Thread InfoSec News
http://news.com.com/Flaw+in+mail-list+software+leaks+passwords/2100-1002_3-5571576.html By Robert Lemos Staff Writer, CNET News.com February 10, 2005 A previously unknown vulnerability in Mailman, a popular open-source program for managing mailing lists, has led to the theft of the password

[ISN] Cybersecurity: It's Dollars and Sense

2005-02-11 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2005/tc20050211_8713.htm By Bill Hancock FEBRUARY 11, 2005 Few CEOs grasp the case for investing in safeguards against hackers, worms, and the like. It's every chief information officer's duty to banish that innocence No one really wants to