[HITB-Announce] HITB2011AMS -- Call For Papers now Open |
- [HITB-Announce] HITB2011AMS -- Call For Papers now Open
- Unencrypted thumb drive causes breach at VA
- Auditor flags security flaws in N.S. gov't computers
- ACNS 2011 CfP
- Malaysian charged with hacking Federal Reserve, others
- Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2010-46
- South Korea attacks force DDoS bunker creation
| [HITB-Announce] HITB2011AMS -- Call For Papers now Open Posted: InfoSec News: [HITB-Announce] HITB2011AMS -- Call For Papers now Open: Forwarded from: Hafez Kamal <aphesz (at) hackinthebox.org> The Call for Papers for the second annual HITBSecConf in Europe is now open! Taking place from the 17th - 20th of May at the NH Grand Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam, HITB2011AMS will be a quad-track conference [...] |
| Unencrypted thumb drive causes breach at VA Posted: InfoSec News: Unencrypted thumb drive causes breach at VA: http://fcw.com/articles/2010/11/18/data-breach-va-veterans.aspx By Alice Lipowicz FCW.com Nov 18, 2010 Two recent privacy breaches at the Veterans Affairs Department involved employees who disregarded information security protocols they were trained to follow, said Roger Baker, assistant secretary for information and technology at VA. One incident involved an employee who plugged a personal unencrypted thumb drive into his computer at work and used it to inappropriately store Social Security numbers and other personal data for 240 veterans. The thumb drive was then lost inside a VA facility, found by a VA security guard, taken home by the guard and finally returned to VA officials, who declared the events a security breach. In the other incident, a VA employee printed out Social Security numbers and other personal information on 180 veterans and took the papers home, where he typed the information into a Microsoft Word file on his home computer. When he tried to send the file to his work account via e-mail, VA's system flagged the message, resulting in discovery of the breach. [...] |
| Auditor flags security flaws in N.S. gov't computers Posted: InfoSec News: Auditor flags security flaws in N.S. gov't computers: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20101118/ns-auditor-sees-security-flaws-101118/ The Canadian Press Nov. 18, 2010 HALIFAX -- Security weaknesses in computer systems operated by Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations place a wide range of personal and [...] |
| Posted: InfoSec News: ACNS 2011 CfP: Forwarded from: claudio soriente <csoriente (at) fi.upm.es> *** Apologies for multiple copies *** C a l l F o r P a p e r s 9th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2011) June 7-10, 2011 Nerja, Malaga, Spain http://www.isac.uma. [...] |
| Malaysian charged with hacking Federal Reserve, others Posted: InfoSec News: Malaysian charged with hacking Federal Reserve, others: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9197220/Malaysian_charged_with_hacking_Federal_Reserve_others By Robert McMillan IDG News Service November 18, 2010 A Malaysian man has been charged with hacking into major U.S. corporations, including the U.S. [...] |
| Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2010-46 Posted: InfoSec News: Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2010-46: ======================================================================== The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary 2010-11-11 - 2010-11-18 This week: 64 advisories [...] |
| South Korea attacks force DDoS bunker creation Posted: InfoSec News: South Korea attacks force DDoS bunker creation: http://www.zdnetasia.com/south-korea-attacks-force-ddos-bunker-creation-62204520.htm By Darren Pauli ZDNet Australia November 19, 2010 South Korea has installed digital "bunkers" to prevent a repeat of the massive distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that crippled parts [...] |
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