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An important consideration with information security incidents is identifying if personally identifiable information - PII - is involved. If it is, then the privacy breach response team needs to be put into action to determine whether or not an actual privacy breach occurred. I’m always interested in hearing the challenges and unique situations they run across as they not only create their plans, but also for how they execute them. Here are three of these situations, often overlooked and not planned for, but experienced by organizations.
http://information-security-resources.com/2010/02/08/perplexities-of-enterprise-privacy-policies/An important consideration with information security incidents is identifying if... more
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WASHINGTON–The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a requirement that law enforcement believes could help it in investigations of child pornography and other serious crimes.
FBI Director Robert Mueller supports storing Internet users’ “origin and destination information,” a bureau attorney said at a federal task force meeting on Thursday.
Fo the Full Story How Our Government wants to Keep Track Of your every Online Movement....MUST SEE!!! http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/02/07/the-nazis-are-back-fbi-wants-records-kept-of-web-sites-youve-visited/WASHINGTON–The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web... more
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Anti-jihadi hactivist The Jester (th3j35t3r), the self-proclaimed Nicest Hacker in the World, has returned for part two of our conversation concerning his campaign of intermittent disruption of militant pro-jihad websites. Part one, Q&A With anti-Jihadi Hacker The Jester, elicited both ire and accolades for the cyber-vigilante in nearly equal volume, revealing just how polarizing the issues surrounding ownership, permissions and access have become in this age of information.
http://information-security-resources.com/2010/02/04/more-talks-with-anti-jihadi-hacker-the-jester/Anti-jihadi hactivist The Jester (th3j35t3r), the self-proclaimed Nicest Hacker in the... more
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Patsies take heed. The U.S. government will kill you. That’s what the Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair told a House intelligence committee yesterday. The Department of Defense will “follow a set of defined policy and legal procedures that are very carefully observed” in the use of lethal force against U.S. citizens who make the mistake of joining organizations created by the CIA and the Mossad.
See the Full Story How the American Government Is Planning to KILL YOU...VIDEO...http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/please-wake-up-dir-of-intel-dennis-c-blair-us-government-plans-to-kill-citizens-kill-you/
The CIA created al-Qaeda from scratch in Afghanistan. Hamas was created by Mossad in order to undermine the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Both countries have long and sordid histories of creating terrorist organizations for political purposes.Patsies take heed. The U.S. government will kill you. That’s what the Director... more
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We have had a few weeks to absorb the implications of wide spread Chinese supported attacks against Google and thirty or so other organizations. The US Secretary of State made one of the most affirmative statements on Internet freedom yet articulated by a government. Various policy analysts have chimed in as well. Some thoughts on what they have said…
http://information-security-resources.com/2010/02/02/china-internet-freedom-is-culturally-relative/We have had a few weeks to absorb the implications of wide spread Chinese supported... more
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The detailed reasons why people fail at DLP implementations merits a separate post – but it’s a lot like why over 50% of the content management implementation from vendors never made it to production in the 90s – the root cause was that there was no real business case for the technology. Unlike business processes – data risk cannot be outsourced.
http://information-security-resources.com/2010/02/02/advantages-of-data-focused-risk-assessments/The detailed reasons why people fail at DLP implementations merits a separate post... more
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Terror-suspect-kept-visa-to-avoid-tipping-off-larger-investigationWashington --The State Department didn't revoke the visa of foiled terrorism suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab because federal counterterrorism officials had begged off revocation, a top State Department official revealed Wednesday.
Patrick F. Kennedy, an undersecretary for management at the State Department, said Abdulmutallab's visa wasn't taken away because intelligence officials asked his agency not to deny a visa to the suspected terrorist over concerns that a denial would've foiled a larger investigation into al-Qaida threats against the United States.
"Revocation action would've disclosed what they were doing," Kennedy said in testimony before the House Committee on Homeland Security. Allowing Adbulmutallab to keep the visa increased chances federal investigators would be able to get closer to apprehending the terror network he is accused of working with, "rather than simply knocking out one solider in that effort."
The committee's hearing continues a series across Capitol Hill that started last week, all looking into the events leading up to and after the attempted bombing of Flight 253 over Detroit. Law enforcement officials say Abdulmutallab tried to detonate an explosive hidden in his underwear on board the flight from Amsterdam shortly before its landing at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus on Christmas Day.
Since the failed attack, criticism has swirled around leaders of the U.S. intelligence community who have indicated they were warned by the suspect's father about a month before the flight of a potential terror threat, but failed to stop Abdmutallab, despite other warning signs like the fact that he purchased a one-way ticket to Detroit with cash.
Politicians have also criticized the decision to treat Abdulmutallab as a civilian after the arrest in Michigan, with Miranda rights being read to him after less than an hour of interrogation and without input from the intelligence community.
Rep. Candice Miller, R-Harrison Township, the only Michigan House member on the Homeland Security Committee, said in a Tuesday statement that she planned to question officials on that matter at today's hearing.
From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20100127/NATION/1270405/Terror-suspect-kept-visa-to-avoid-tipping-off-larger-investigation#ixzz0eN4szPz0Terror-suspect-kept-visa-to-avoid-tipping-off-larger-investigationWashington --The... more
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There needs to be a change to email security if we want to stop seeing high profile security breeches such as the ones that hit Hotmail and Google in 2009, and the America law firm Gipson Hoffman & Pancione more recently. The problem is, most email filtering systems will trust the email address and therefore allow it through.
http://information-security-resources.com/2010/01/31/behavioural-based-email-security-systems/There needs to be a change to email security if we want to stop seeing high profile... more
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Cisco’s existing product lines offer a number of different appliance options which allow companies the ability to block the various web based threats in existence. The problem that this type of solution has is that it does require constant tweaking of the filtering and analysis settings as well as someone to constantly keep an eye on current events as zero-day attacks become more prominent.
http://information-security-resources.com/2010/01/31/web-security-from-a-new-perspective/Cisco’s existing product lines offer a number of different appliance options... more
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Please note that in the article that follows, I am not claiming that the U.S. Government knew Mutallab had a bomb or intended to hurt anyone on Flight 253 when the U.S. Government let him board.
Since our flight landed on Christmas Day, Lori and I have been doing everything in our power to uncover the truth about why we were almost blown up in the air over Detroit. The truth is now finally out after the publication of the following Detroit News article:
For the full SHOCKING STORY and VIDEO of Witness....http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/americans-u-s-government-agent-aided-underwear-bomber-onto-flight-253-the-sharp-dressed-man/Please note that in the article that follows, I am not claiming that the U.S.... more
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Could it really be that the Department of Homeland Security is requesting foreign troops to kill US citizens?Could it really be that the Department of Homeland Security is requesting foreign... more
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A comedy routine inspired by my mother (a cute little old lady) being violated by Homeland Security.A comedy routine inspired by my mother (a cute little old lady) being violated by... more
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Please Remove Your Shoes is a revealing documentary about broken government process. Please Remove Your Shoes examines the period before 911 and the current situation nine years later and asks the questions that make Washington squirm: Are we really any better for all our money spent? Or is it safe to say that nothing has changed?Please Remove Your Shoes is a revealing documentary about broken government process.... more
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Inter Press Service reports that over 20,000 people marched in the streets of Phoenix this past week to demand an end to the criminalization of undocumented immigrants and the passage of immigration reform legislation.
Arizona is considered ground zero for the immigration debate due to its severe anti-immigrant policies and the controversial figure of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose deputies conduct frequent immigration sweeps in Latino neighborhoods.Inter Press Service reports that over 20,000 people marched in the streets of Phoenix... more
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In a CNN interview, Chertoff cited the Detroit incident as “a very vivid lesson in the value of that machinery.” One lesson that he hasn’t drawn, however, was about the unreliability of the security firm which allowed the young Nigerian Muslim without a passport to “slip through” Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport.
ICTS International N.V., the Dutch-based security firm, was established in 1982 by former members of Israel’s secret police, the Shin Bet, and El Al security. Menachem Atzmon, who holds the controlling shares in the firm, was convicted in 1996 for campaign finance fraud while co-treasurer of the Likud party. The other co-treasurer Ehud Olmert, who was acquitted of those charges, resigned as Israeli Prime Minister in 2008 amid multiple corruption charges.
Although the rapid worldwide expansion of ICTS was no doubt helped by the much vaunted reputation of Israeli aviation security, its record abroad is less reassuring. In December 2001, the so-called “shoe bomber” Richard Reid also slipped through ICTS security at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to board a flight to Miami. And it was an ICTS subsidiary, Huntleigh USA, that shared security duties at Boston’s Logan Airport, where two of the four hijacked planes originated on September 11, 2001.In a CNN interview, Chertoff cited the Detroit incident as “a very vivid lesson... more
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These types of attacks are typically launched from computer robots (bots) which are exploited computers which have an Internet connection. These bots are then directed by central controllers to do the tasks assigned. These tasks vary but can include initiating a DDoS attack on a specified target. Now when the combined bandwidth of thousands of bots comes into play, any company can have their Internet connectivity partially or completely blocked.
http://information-security-resources.com/2010/01/20/dos-attacks-and-continuity-of-operations/These types of attacks are typically launched from computer robots (bots) which are... more
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