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ITL Bulletin for July 2008
2008-07-29 06:08

Forwarded from: Elizabeth Lennon ITL BULLETIN FOR JULY 2008 GUIDELINES ON IMPLEMENTING A SECURE SOCKETS LAYER (SSL) VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK (VPN) By Sheila Frankel Computer Security Division...

Brief analysis of "Analyzing Websites for User-Visible Security Design Flaws"
2008-07-28 07:46

Forwarded from: security curmudgeon After being provided a link to the original paper and reading additional comments, I wanted to follow-up to my original post [1] with more thoughts. If you want...

Re: [Dataloss] Fringe: e-banking not yet secure
2008-07-25 12:34

Forwarded from: Adam Shostack On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 02:26:18AM +0000, security curmudgeon wrote: | : Over 75% of banking Web sites contain fundamental design flaws that | : could put customers...

Banks Targeted for Malicious Attacks
2008-07-22 05:04

http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/articles.php?art_id=911 By Linda McGlasson Managing Editor July 18, 2008 Financial institutions should brace themselves for more malicious attacks, as the recent...

CFP now open for ClubHack2008 - India
2008-07-17 17:05

Forwarded from: ClubHack We are pleased to announce the opening of CFP for ClubHack2008. ClubHack is India's own international hackers' convention started in 2007. We are expecting good deep...

Open Security Foundation To Maintain Attrition.org's Data Loss Database - Open Source
2008-07-15 10:09

http://attrition.org/news/content/08-07-15.001.html RICHMOND, VA, July 14, 2008 - The Open Security Foundation (OSF) is pleased to announce that the DataLossDB (also known as the Data Loss...

Re: Shocker DNS spoofing vuln discovered three years ago by	a student
2008-07-11 09:35

Forwarded from: jf and 3 years before that djb pointed it out as well, its not coincidence that djbdns was not vulnerable. http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/forgery-cost.txt...

Justice Breyer Is Among Victims in Data Breach Caused by File	Sharing
2008-07-09 08:50

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070802997.html By Brian Krebs WashingtonPost.com Staff Writer July 9, 2008 Sometime late last year, an employee of a McLean...

Celebrity Passport Records Popular
2008-07-04 09:18

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070303799.html By Glenn Kessler Washington Post Staff Writer July 4, 2008 Government workers repeatedly snooped without...

Al-Qaeda's Growing Online Offensive
2008-06-30 09:25

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/23/AR2008062302135.html By Craig Whitlock Washington Post Foreign Service June 24, 2008 CAIRO Second of two articles Early this year, a...