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I wonder what the number is for other industries

Posted on April 8, 2011 by halberenson

Ponemon Institute did a study of IT security in the energy industry. 75% admit to having suffered a data breach in the last 12 months. 71% of IT Security executives at global energy producers state that their executive management team … Continue reading →

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I’m glad I’m running IE9

Posted on April 8, 2011 by halberenson

I’ve installed all three of the latest browsers and will try them side-by-side for a while.  Of course, the first thing one notices is that only IE9 has the Tracking Protection List feature.  I’m working on a blog post on that … Continue reading →

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Data Breach Update

Posted on April 3, 2011 by halberenson

Two new pieces of news: 1) Add Kroger (parent of King Soopers, City Markets, etc. supermarkets) to the list of company’s whose customer email addresses were lost through the Epsilon breach.  Now aren’t you glad you registered your mail address … Continue reading →

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Sadly, data breaches are all too common

Posted on April 3, 2011 by halberenson

After blogging about BP’s lost laptop this morning I was checking my mail and discovered a note from one of my financial institutions about a breach at bulk email sender Epsilon that impacts me.  Three of the largest credit card issuers … Continue reading →

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BP loses a laptop containing (unencrypted) personal information

Posted on April 3, 2011 by halberenson

Sadly A BP employee had the personal information about claimants from the Deepwater Horizon spill on a laptop with neither the files nor hard drive encrypted. And it was stolen (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/03/bp-worker-loses-laptop-holding-data-for-13k-gulf-oil-spill-claimants/1?csp=34news). It isn’t clear if BP has inadequate policies, inadequate … Continue reading →

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Consumers vs. Users

Posted on March 29, 2011 by halberenson

I have an incredible backlog of topics and just don’t know where to start.  So, I’ll start with something simple and quick.  In a recent article someone complained about Microsoft referring to “Consumers” rather than “Users”.  Yes, they were complaining … Continue reading →

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Better article on apparent Iranian exploitation of DNS flaws

Posted on March 24, 2011 by halberenson

Fake SSL certificate problem is an example of DNS Flaws

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I didn’t have to wait long to prove my point (vis a vi getting serious about security)

Posted on March 24, 2011 by halberenson

An attack on Internet infrastructure has been tied to Iran. http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20046588-281.html?tag=nl.e703  

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When are we going to get serious about computer/network security (Part 2)?

Posted on March 19, 2011 by halberenson

Consider the first sentence of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) RFC 4272 published in 2006 and be afraid, be very afraid.  It reads “Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4), along with a host of other infrastructure protocols designed before the Internet … Continue reading →

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Of course there will never be another standalone “Zune” PMP

Posted on March 19, 2011 by halberenson

Although there are many other topics I have plans to blog about, I can’t resist responding to the noise in the system about Microsoft.  And there has been a lot of recent noise about the future of Zune.  First rumors … Continue reading →

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