[HITB-Announce] Reminder: HITB2011AMS - Call for Papers closes on the 18th of Feb

[HITB-Announce] Reminder: HITB2011AMS - Call for Papers closes on the 18th of Feb

[HITB-Announce] Reminder: HITB2011AMS - Call for Papers closes on the 18th of Feb

Posted:

InfoSec News: [HITB-Announce] Reminder: HITB2011AMS - Call for Papers closes on the 18th of Feb: Forwarded from: Hafez Kamal <aphesz (at) hackinthebox.org>
Happy 2011 everyone! Just a reminder that the Call for Papers for the second annual HITBSecConf in Europe is closing on the 18TH OF FEBRUARY! We've received some awesome submissions so far and the event is really shaping up nicely. [...]

LinkedIn IPO filing reveals poor disaster recovery set-up

Posted:

InfoSec News: LinkedIn IPO filing reveals poor disaster recovery set-up: http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/focus/archive/2011/01/linkedin-ipo-filing-reveals-poor-disaster-recovery-set-up
By Yevgeniy Sverdli Datacenter Dynamics 28th January, 2011
Although it has recently implemented a disaster recovery program, the professional social networking company LinkedIn does not currently have a way to quickly shift production workload to a back-up data center.
In documents filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the company disclosed that downtime at its primary data center means downtime for LinkedIn.
“Although this program is functional, it does not yet provide a real-time back-up data center, so if our primary data center shuts down, there will be a period of time that the website will remain shut down while the transition to the back-up data center takes place,” the document read.
The document cited is LinkedIn’s statement of registration for an Initial Public Offering, which aims to raise up to US$175m. The offering’s underwriters are Morgan Stanley, Bank of America Merill Lynch, JP Morgan, Allen and Company and UBS.
[...]

Gardai probe theft of laptops from Revenue fraud squad

Posted:

InfoSec News: Gardai probe theft of laptops from Revenue fraud squad: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/gardai-probe-theft-of-laptops-from-revenue-fraud-squad-2515913.html
By Tom Brady Security Editor Independent.ie January 29 2011
GARDAI were last night investigating how 10 laptops were stolen from the headquarters of the Revenue's fraud and tax evasion section.
Internal inquiries were also being carried out into an embarrassing security breach that resulted in three men breaking into the building and then walking to the second floor without being spotted.
The break-in took place at the Revenue Commissioners' offices at Ashtown Gate on the Navan Road in Dublin on Thursday.
Three men forced their way in through a fire emergency door at the side of the building at around 7.15pm.
[...]

ShmooCon 2011: Your Android's dirty little secret

Posted:

InfoSec News: ShmooCon 2011: Your Android's dirty little secret: http://www.csoonline.com/article/659764/shmoocon-2011-your-android-s-dirty-little-secret
By Bill Brenner Senior Editor CSO January 29, 2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Presenters at the ShmooCon security conference have spent much attention on mobile vulnerabilities in the last couple years, [...]

Hackers steal Co-op patrons' personal information

Posted:

InfoSec News: Hackers steal Co-op patrons' personal information: http://www.dailycampus.com/news/hackers-steal-co-op-patrons-personal-information-1.1949423
By John Sherman The Daily Campus January 30, 2011
Falling victim to digital maliciousness, HuskyDirect.com was hacked early last week, leaving credit card numbers and other customer [...]

Career Bobs

Posted by Rohan ingale at 1:06 AM

0 comments:

Post a Comment