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CA Acquires IDFocus to Bolster Identity Management

Security - RSS Feeds — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:59:04 GMT

CA has acquired identity management vendor IDFocus to add to its provisioning capabilities and its ability to enforce segregation of duties. CA competes against a number of large vendors in the identity management space, including Oracle, IBM, Sun Microsystems and Novell. - CA has acquired identity management...(read more)

Day 7 - Identification: Host-based Intrusion Detection Systems, (Tue, Oct 7th)

SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:15:32 GMT

Host-based IDS can be a powerful tool for identifying potential incidents. There are some majo ...(more)... Share Post: Read More......(read more)

Cogent peering problems, (Tue, Oct 7th)

SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:15:17 GMT

Justin reports that Cogent is having peering problems, which seem to be confirmed here: http://www.i ...(more)... Share Post: Read More......(read more)

Novell eDirectory advisory, (Mon, Oct 6th)

SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:08:47 GMT

Novell released an update to eDirectory last week and this morning US-CERT recommends updating as so ...(more)... Share Post: Read More......(read more)

Backscatter Spam on Email Security Radar

Security - RSS Feeds — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:37:05 GMT

Proofpoint joins the list of vendors supporting bounce address tag validation, also known as BATV. Webroot and Cisco also support BATV in their email security offerings. Earlier this year, Symantec noted the rise of backscatter spam in its monthly State of Spam report. - Proofpoint is launching an attack...(read more)

Deutsche Telekom Seeks Stolen Data on 17 Million Mobile Users

Security - RSS Feeds — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:44:49 GMT

Deutsche Telekom says it reported the theft of names, addresses, cell phone numbers, e-mail addresses and dates of birth of millions of mobile phone customers in 2006 and found no evidence the information was abused. German government investigators are analyzing potential danger from the data leak. -...(read more)

Day 6 - Network-based Intrusion Detection Systems, (Mon, Oct 6th)

SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:04:09 GMT

One of the sources we use to identify incidents is the network-based intrusion detection system (NID ...(more)... Share Post: Read More......(read more)

Day 5 - Events versus Incidents, (Sun, Oct 5th)

SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:34:50 GMT

Welcome to day 5 of the Cyber Security Awareness Month and the first day of what is the second half ...(more)... Share Post: Read More......(read more)

Passports: Another Bad Use of Self-Signed Certificates

Security - RSS Feeds — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:37:28 GMT

The offline nature of the passport data makes it impossible to validate in any meaningful way. This weakness made it easy for hackers to device systems for cloning and modifying passport RFID chips. - I'm surprised it took this long: Hackers have released the specs and tools to clone and modify the RFID...(read more)

VMware Advisories and Patches, (Sat, Oct 4th)

SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:23:41 GMT

VMware released the following new and updated security advisories on October 4th: - VMSA- ...(more)... Share Post: Read More......(read more)

Day 4 - Preparation: What Goes Into a Response Kit, (Sat, Oct 4th)

SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:23:39 GMT

For the fourth day of Cyber Security Awareness Month we will look at how to build a response kit.nb ...(more)... Share Post: Read More......(read more)

Financial Crisis and security, (Fri, Oct 3rd)

SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:12:09 GMT

The world financial crisis has lead to a lot of changes, corporations buy out one another, merging a ...(more)... Share Post: Read More......(read more)

Day 3 - Preparation: Building Checklists, (Fri, Oct 3rd)

SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:03:55 GMT

For the third day of Cyber Security Awareness Month we will look at the practice of building checkli ...(more)... Share Post: Read More......(read more)

Low, slow, distributed SSH username brute forcing, (Thu, Oct 2nd)

SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:53:13 GMT

Koos writes in with some logs of distributed SSH scanning with the following characteristics. ...(more)... Share Post: Read More......(read more)

Americans Confused As Ever Over Cyber Security

Security - RSS Feeds — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:09:02 GMT

You can lead users to security but that doesn't mean they'll use it or even know they have it. In the annual kickoff campaign for cyber security awareness, Symantec and National Cyber Security Alliance say a large number of Americans still fail to use basic Internet security tools and there remains a...(read more)