According to an article in SecurityFocus,
On January 5, a six-person jury found former Kelly Middle School substitute teacher Julie Amero guilty of four counts of risk of injury to a minor. The charges stem from an October 19, 2004 incident when the computer in the classroom in which Amero was teaching started displaying pornographic pop-up [...]
According to SC Magazine, the newly released Google business application suite provides greater security than locally controlled applications, such as MS Office. I agree with some of their points. It’s true that application patches to Google’s offerings will be applied automatically by Google. However, how do you, as the customer, know that these patches wont [...]
The Honeynet Project has released a new paper called “Know Your Enemy: Web Application Threats“. This paper describes the basics of a typical attack against web applications such as web mail, bulletin boards, and others. Many of the targeted applications appear to be based on PHP. I’m guessing this is due to the popularity of [...]
The Internet Architecture Board has published a draft report, detailing the findings from the workshop on Unwanted Internet Traffic, held last year. The workshop was intended to bring together all the relevant Internet communities who could help deal with problems like DDoS attacks, spam, phishing, and other sources of undesirable network activity. Several hard questions [...]
“Lawmakers in Massachusetts are poised to consider legislation that would force retailers who suffer data breaches to cover the costs associated with any fraud-related losses by their customers, according to a story in today’s Wall Street Journal.” -Washington Post
That’s the best idea I’ve heard all day. Of course, it’s not exactly a new idea. Economists [...]
