[ISN] Hanford workers warned about security breach

2006-06-14 Thread InfoSec News
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/273650_hanfsecurity13.html By SHANNON DININNY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS June 13, 2006 The U.S. Energy Department has warned about 4,000 current and former workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation that their personal information may have been compromised, after

[ISN] Elections hacks don't guard us against hackers

2006-06-14 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14803773.htm By FRED GRIMM fgrimm at MiamiHerald.com Jun. 13, 2006 For a county supervisor of elections needing someone to test the vulnerabilities of his voting system, Dan Wallach's the man. Wallach, who runs the security computer lab at Rice University,

[ISN] KDDI suffers massive data breach

2006-06-14 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicarticleId=9001150 Martyn Williams June 13, 2006 IDG News Service Personal data on almost 4 million customers of Japanese telecom carrier KDDI Corp. has been breached, the company said Tuesday. The data includes the name,

[ISN] ...and now a word from one of our long time sponsors

2006-06-14 Thread InfoSec News
http://attrition.org/news/content/06-06-13.001.html Cliff Notes: If you drink Coca-Cola products, email the 'coke reward' code to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to support a bunch of wack job heathens How many times have you thought, If everyone sent me one penny, i'd be rich!? In the case of attrition

[ISN] ADSM endorses XBRL technology

2006-06-14 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.itp.net/business/news/details.php?id=21007 By David Ingham 13 June 2006 Abu Dhabi Securities Market (ADSM) has recently taken further steps to boost market transparency and improve its information technology systems. ADSM has declared its aim to become ISO 17799 compliant and has

[ISN] PCs to developing world 'fuel malware'

2006-06-14 Thread InfoSec News
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/13/pc_donation_peril/ By John Leyden 13th June 2006 Programs to send PCs to third world countries might inadvertently fuel the development of malware for hire scams, an anti-virus guru warns. Eugene Kaspersky, head of anti-virus research at Kaspersky Labs,

[ISN] Black Hat Speakers + 2005 Content on-line

2006-06-14 Thread InfoSec News
Forwarded from: Jeff Moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello ISN readers, I have a brief announcement I would like to make. The speaker selection for Black Hat USA 2006 is now complete. We have a fantastic line up of Briefings presentations and our largest