LayerOne 2011: Call for Papers

LayerOne 2011: Call for Papers


LayerOne 2011: Call for Papers

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InfoSec News: LayerOne 2011: Call for Papers: Forwarded from: LayerOne Call For Papers <layeronecfp (at) gmail.com>
Call for Papers
LayerOne 2011 Security Conference
May 28-29, 2011 Anaheim, California (Anaheim Marriott)
http://layerone.org/
The seventh annual LayerOne security conference is now accepting [...]

Vodafone reviews security systems after burglary causes network outage

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InfoSec News: Vodafone reviews security systems after burglary causes network outage: http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2011/02/28/245653/Vodafone-reviews-security-systems-after-burglary-causes-network.htm
By Jenny Williams ComputerWeekly.com 28 February 2011
Vodafone is reviewing its security systems after the burglary at one of [...]

Self-erasing flash drives destroy court evidence

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InfoSec News: Self-erasing flash drives destroy court evidence: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/01/self_destructing_flash_drives/
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco The Register 1st March 2011
The inner workings of solid state storage devices are so fundamentally different from traditional hard drives that forensic investigators can [...]

Computer hackers a top concern for Homeland Security

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InfoSec News: Computer hackers a top concern for Homeland Security: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-homeland-security-20110302,0,2881352.story
By Julie Mianecki Washington Bureau Los Angeles Times March 1, 2011
Cyber security is a potential "nightmare" for the Department of Homeland Security in the years ahead, as are concerns about homegrown terrorists and intelligence sharing, officials said Tuesday at a seminar marking the department's eighth anniversary.
"The nightmare that the DHS has," said Stewart Baker, a former head of policy at the department, "is that a very sophisticated hacker, perhaps working for Hezbollah, manages to infiltrate our electric grid and to bring down power to a portion of the United States, not for an hour or two, but for days or weeks. This would create a major humanitarian crisis."
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the rapid pace of change is the biggest issue with technology.
"The problem with cyber is almost by the time you're talking about something, they're on to the next thing," Napolitano said. "It is really a fast-moving field that, quite frankly, probably none of us are as good at understanding as somebody who's 20 years old, so this is an area where we're really trying to hire people. And if there are students in the audience that have any cyber interest, I would ask them to see me after."
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Anonymous Member Says Palantir Not Off the Hook

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InfoSec News: Anonymous Member Says Palantir Not Off the Hook: http://www.darkreading.com/database-security/167901020/security/attacks-breaches/229219613/anonymous-member-says-palantir-not-off-the-hook.html
By Kelly Jackson Higgins Darkreading Mar 01, 2011
Fallout from the Anonymous group's cyberattack on security firm HBGary [...]

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