Govt bans import of Chinese telecom equipment

Govt bans import of Chinese telecom equipment

Govt bans import of Chinese telecom equipment

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InfoSec News: Govt bans import of Chinese telecom equipment: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/04/29/stories/2010042952880100.htm
By Thomas K. Thomas New Delhi April 28, 2010
The Government has officially told mobile operators not to import any equipment manufactured by Chinese vendors, including Huawei and ZTE. [...]

Study: Application Security Not An Enterprise Priority

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InfoSec News: Study: Application Security Not An Enterprise Priority: http://www.darkreading.com/security/app-security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224700250
By Kelly Jackson Higgins DarkReading Apr 29, 2010
With all of the attention and education surrounding secure coding practices and Web attacks, you'd think it would be sinking in to [...]

Blog lets readers decide alleged hacker's fate

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InfoSec News: Blog lets readers decide alleged hacker's fate: http://blogs.news.com.au/techblog/index.php/news/comments/blog_lets_readers_decide_alleged_hackers_fate
By Andrew Ramadge blogs.news.com.au April 29, 2010
TALK about walking the walk -- one of the world.s biggest tech blogs is taking the idea of crowdsourcing to a new level by letting its readers decide whether or not to press charges against an alleged hacker.
Earlier this year, tech blog TechCrunch was compromised by a hacker who at various points redirected users to an adult site and defaced the homepage.
Now police think they've nabbed the culprit and TechCrunch has been asked if it wants to press charges.
But, in the spirit of Web 2.0, the blog is leaving that decision to its readers.
"We're going to let you decide -- do we press charges or just let this go? The poll is at the bottom of the post. Whatever you decide, we'll do," wrote founder Michael Arrington in a post.
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Symantec buys crypto firms PGP and GuardianEdge

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InfoSec News: Symantec buys crypto firms PGP and GuardianEdge: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/mergers-and-acquisitions/2010/04/29/symantec-buys-crypto-firms-pgp-and-guardianedge-40088811/
By Tom Espiner ZDNet UK 29 April, 2010
Symantec is buying encryption vendors PGP and GuardianEdge Technologies to boost its lineup, the company announced on Thursday. [...]

Study: Users OK with mobile devices for sensitive transactions

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InfoSec News: Study: Users OK with mobile devices for sensitive transactions: http://www.csoonline.com/article/592258/Study_Users_OK_with_mobile_devices_for_sensitive_transactions
By Joan Goodchild Senior Editor CSO April 29, 2010
Most mobile device users worldwide feel safe using their mobile devices for applications that involve highly-sensitive information, including [...]

Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2010-17

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InfoSec News: Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2010-17: ========================================================================
The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary 2010-04-22 - 2010-04-29
This week: 59 advisories [...]

Terry Childs juror explains why he voted to convict

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InfoSec News: Terry Childs juror explains why he voted to convict: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9176114/Terry_Childs_juror_explains_why_he_voted_to_convict
By Robert McMillan IDG News Service April 28, 2010
Terry Childs' guilty conviction struck a nerve with IT staffers this week.
Here was a man who, by all accounts, was good at his job, though lacking in interpersonal skills. Suddenly, on July 9, 2008, he's pushed into a tense situation -- a hostile conference call with the human resources department, his boss and even a police officer, all listening in, and told to hand over the passwords to the City of San Francisco's FiberWAN network, which he helped build. He chokes and hands over bogus passwords. Later, he argues that he did this because nobody in the room was qualified to have administrative access to the network.
IT people are used to being held accountable for bad decisions made by their superiors, and some people who've read about the case feel some sympathy for Mr. Childs. After all, the city's network never went down, and Childs eventually did hand over control of the FiberWAN to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom -- the only person Childs felt was competent to have the passwords.
"How exactly was he breaking the law?" wrote one Slashdot poster, reacting to news of Childs' conviction. "[H]e refused to disclose the passwords when the person requesting them did not follow proper protocols."
While the City of San Francisco apparently did a poor job in spelling out the protocols for handing over administrative control of its network, Childs was still guilty of a crime. A jury found him guilty of breaking California's hacking laws on Tuesday, and when he is sentenced on June 14, he will be facing a possible five-year prison term.
So how did Childs break the law? We put the question to one of the best people able to answer it: Juror # 4, also known as Jason Chilton. In addition to having listened to countless hours of courtroom testimony, he also happens to be a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and a senior network engineer with payroll administrator Automatic Data Processing. (ADP) He's spent the past five months of his life on the trial, which began jury selection in late November. According to him, there's much more to the Terry Childs case than most people realize. Following is an edited version of an interview he gave the IDG News Service on Wednesday, the day after the verdict was handed down.
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