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Dr. Manning called for an investigation into Obama's birth certificate and if found to have faked citizenship he should be arrested. He then went on to say if he was convicted, he should be executed for treason. He recently got a visit by a large group of Homeland Security, New York police and various others.Dr. Manning called for an investigation into Obama's birth certificate and if found to... more
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Reading through a Windows security log or any other log can be very difficult and time consuming, so a lot of companies have created their own tools to analyze windows event logs. But before you start going commercial, there is a tool that will get you going without any cost. Against all odds, it’s a tool made by Microsoft!
http://information-security-resources.com/2009/11/19/windows-security-logs-and-ms-log-parser/Reading through a Windows security log or any other log can be very difficult and time... more
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In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes.
Terrorists are not even entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention, much less the Constitution of the United States. Terrorists have never observed, nor even claimed to have observed, the Geneva Convention, nor are they among those covered by it.
But over and above the utter inconsistency of what is being done is the utter recklessness it represents. The last time an attack on the World Trade Center was treated as a matter of domestic criminal justice was after a bomb was exploded there in 1993. Under the rules of American criminal law, the prosecution had to turn over all sorts of information to the defense — information that told the al-Qaida international terrorist network what we knew about them and how we knew it.
This was nothing more and nothing less than giving away military secrets to an enemy in wartime — something for which people have been executed, as they should have been. Secrecy in warfare is a matter of life and death. Lives were risked and lost during World War II to prevent Nazi Germany from discovering that Britain had broken its supposedly unbreakable Enigma code and could read their military plans that were being radioed in that code.
“Loose lips sink ships” was the World War II motto in the United States. But loose lips are mandated under the rules of criminal prosecutions.In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama... more
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Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) was responsible for the kickback fraud that occurred in the US v. Khan case, and has been the focus of many other cases of procurement fraud within the LOGCAP project. Since combat operations began in 2001, DCAA has referred to criminal investigators 32 cases of suspected fraud that were associated with all wartime-support contracts. Of those, the vast majority were related to the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program.
http://information-security-resources.com/2009/11/16/revolving-door-of-abuse-procurement-fraud/Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) was responsible for the kickback fraud that occurred in... more
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Wouldn’t it be a good idea to have privacy certifications for the organizations that are part of the large smart grid and for the smart meters to help ensure they are appropriately addressing privacy and providing households with informed decision-making capabilities for how the information collected from their homes through these devices are used?
http://information-security-resources.com/2009/11/15/fifteen-more-smart-grid-privacy-concerns/Wouldn’t it be a good idea to have privacy certifications for the organizations that... more
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You have the right as an individual to own a gun and defend yourself.
Prohibition didn't stop liquor use; the drug laws can't stop drug use. Making gun ownership illegal will not stop gun ownership.
The primary victim of these misguided efforts is the honest citizen whose civil rights are trampled as frustrated legislators and police tighten the screws.
Banning guns will make guns more expensive and give organized crime a great opportunity to make profits in a new black market for weapons. Street violence will increase in new turf wars. Criminals will not give up their guns. But, many law abiding citizens will, leaving them defenseless against armed bandits.
Rather than banning guns, the politicians and the police should encourage gun ownership, as well as education and training programs. A responsible, well-armed and trained citizenry is the best protection against domestic crime and the threat of foreign invasion. America's founders knew that. It is still true today.You have the right as an individual to own a gun and defend yourself.
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The Obama administration will insist on measures to give legal status to an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants as it pushes early next year for legislation to overhaul the immigration system, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Friday.
In her first major speech on the overhaul, Ms. Napolitano dispelled any suggestion that the administration — with health care, energy and other major issues crowding its agenda — would postpone the most contentious piece of immigration legislation until after midterm elections next November.
Laying out the administration’s bottom line, Ms. Napolitano said officials would argue for a “three-legged stool” that includes tougher enforcement laws against illegal immigrants and employers who hire them and a streamlined system for legal immigration, as well as a “tough and fair pathway to earned legal status.”
Speaking at the Center for American Progress, a liberal policy group in Washington, Ms. Napolitano unveiled a double-barrel argument for a legalization program, saying it would enhance national security and, as the economy climbs out of recession, protect American workers from unfair competition from lower-paid, easily exploited illegal immigrants.
“Let me emphasize this: we will never have fully effective law enforcement or national security as long as so many millions remain in the shadows,” she said, adding that the recovering economy would be strengthened “as these immigrants become full-paying taxpayers.”
Under the administration’s plan, illegal immigrants who hope to gain legal status would have to register, pay fines and all taxes they owe, pass a criminal background check and learn English.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/us/politics/14immig.htmlThe Obama administration will insist on measures to give legal status to an estimated... more
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These new regulations come at a time when healthcare breaches are on the rise; according to the 2009 ITRC Breach Stats Report healthcare breaches account for over 66 percent of all records breached this year, up from 20 percent in 2008. In fact, some of the largest names in healthcare suffered data breaches.
http://information-security-resources.com/2009/11/12/hitech-act-and-protecting-health-privacy/These new regulations come at a time when healthcare breaches are on the rise;... more
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Every organization has some form of Information Security Risk Assessment - some perform a formal risk assessment, others simply use their practical experience. There aren’t that many tools that assist the organization in performing risk assessment. The most widely used one is Excel, but it is far from a good choice.
http://information-security-resources.com/2009/11/11/microsoft-threat-assessment-modeling/Every organization has some form of Information Security Risk Assessment - some... more
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There are four pillars to the cyber war realm: intelligence, technology, logistics, and command. By understanding these factors IT security practitioners can gauge the threat to their own organization from cyber war and perhaps take steps to prepare for either direct attacks or the fallout from an outbreak of cyber hostilities between nations.
http://information-security-resources.com/2009/11/09/four-pillars-of-cyber-warfare-intelligence/There are four pillars to the cyber war realm: intelligence, technology, logistics,... more
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A Rhode Island Hospital was fined $150,000 after a surgeon operated on the wrong finger of a patient, and now the hospital must install video cameras in all of its operating rooms. Of course video surveillance will not PREVENT such incidents from happening, but knowing such recordings are being made will likely make surgeons much more careful…
http://information-security-resources.com/2009/11/09/hipaa-and-video-surveillance-of-surgery/A Rhode Island Hospital was fined $150,000 after a surgeon operated on the wrong... more
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With the threat of aftershocks in the US Stock market, continued bank closings and takeovers by the FDIC, serious consideration needs to be given to changing the current reporting, auditing and oversight regulations, and the public needs to pressure elected officials into action before our entire country is taken off financial life support.
http://information-security-resources.com/2009/11/03/top-five-financial-sector-security-threats/With the threat of aftershocks in the US Stock market, continued bank closings and... more
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Regardless of what you feel should or should not be private, we all have a right to set expectations that we trust will be met. And as technologists, we have the capability to improve the state of privacy in the face of technological advances that might otherwise undermine it. Privacy is not an Illusion, it is a challenge.
http://information-security-resources.com/2009/11/02/everyday-life-and-the-expectation-of-privacy/Regardless of what you feel should or should not be private, we all have a right to... more
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This is the first cogent look at the efficacy of waging strategic cyber war and I hope will serve to slow the rhetoric coming from the US Defense community about acquiring cyber offensive capability: “Can cyberattacks disarm cyberattackers? In a world of cheap computing, ubiquitous networking, and hackers who could be anywhere, the answer is no.”
http://information-security-resources.com/2009/10/31/debunking-cyber-deterrence-as-a-strategy/This is the first cogent look at the efficacy of waging strategic cyber war and I hope... more
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