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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from militarytimes.comThree current Blue Angels pilots are among the commissioned officers who circulated pornographic messages and photographs among themselves and to other members of the elite flight team, according to copies of phone texts that were part o...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from militarytimes.comNew Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald has ordered town hall meetings at all department health and benefits facilities by the end of September, in an effort to better understand veterans' complaints about services.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from militarytimes.comTwo American aid workers infected with Ebola are getting an experimental drug so novel it has never been tested for safety in humans and was only identified as a potential treatment earlier this year, thanks to a longstanding research pr...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe first American general officer to be killed by hostile fire in combat since Sept. 11 has been identified as Maj. Gen. Harold Greene.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from militarytimes.comAn active-duty Army officer stricken with terminal cancer is fighting for his life - and the lives of others. Capt. Justin Fitch said he wants to use his last days to reverse the epidemic of veteran suicide.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe forced culling of majors from Army ranks is taking a bigger toll on black officers than those from any other ethnic group, according to Army personnel documents.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe first U.S. general officer to be killed by hostile fire in combat since Sept. 11 died in an apparent insider attack Tuesday at The Marshal Fahim National Defense University in Kabul, Afghanistan, Defense Department officials confirmed.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from militarytimes.comJurors should know how the government plans to execute the Guantanamo detainee accused of orchestrating the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole if he's convicted of a capital offense, his lawyer argued at a pretrial hearing Tuesday at the U.S.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from militarytimes.comQ. I'm a full-time student but my ID card expires next month and I turn 23 two months after that. I won't be finished with school for another year.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from militarytimes.comA. A common practice among doctors is to give a pill to a service member suffering from insomnia.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from militarytimes.comWhether you've just moved to a new duty station and need to restock your pared-down pantry; or want to stock your barracks room; or need to stock up on drinks and other items for the kids' school lunches; or you want to save money on ite...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from militarytimes.comJanet Galla was serving as a hospital corpsman on a Navy ship in 2004 when she was brutally attacked by a co-worker.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from militarytimes.comA Montana man who faces a deliberate homicide charge for slashing another man's throat told police they were arguing over which branch of the United States military was better, the Army or the Marines, Yellowstone County prosecutors said.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from militarytimes.comA government database of known or suspected terrorists doubled in size in recent years, The Associated Press has learned. The growth is the result of intelligence agencies submitting names more often after a near-miss attack in 2009.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from militarytimes.comA Guantanamo Bay prisoner from Syria cleared for release in 2009 has seen his health deteriorate amid a hunger strike and needs urgent, independent medical examination, his attorney said Tuesday.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from militarytimes.comDefense transportation officials have set up a team of experts to quickly address problems service members are experiencing with the shipping and storage of their privately-owned vehicles.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe 6th Fleet boss has been tapped to return to the states to helm the Norfolk-based Fleet Forces Command, the Defense Department announced Monday.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe militants who have overrun large parts of Iraq are now battling ferociously to capture one of the country's vital resources, water.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from militarytimes.comA hearing is scheduled Monday in Tijuana for a U.S. Marine jailed in Mexico on charges of bringing weapons into the country.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from militarytimes.comGannett, the owner of Military Times, said Tuesday that it will create two publicly traded companies as it moves to separate its broadcasting and digital businesses from its publishing division, a strategic move similarly adopted by comp...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from militarytimes.comA soldier died on Sunday in Afghanistan due to a non-combat incident while on patrol, the Defense Department announced Monday.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedIndiana guardsmen and a Federal Emergency Management Agency response team partnered during a training exercise held in Indiana.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedDeputy Defense Secretary Robert O. Work has urged National Defense University students to become strategic-level leaders which an exceedingly complex and potentially more dangerous world will demand.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedTwo Defense Department C-130 aircraft equipped with U.S. Forest Service Modular Airborne Fire Fighting Systems are helping to combat wildfires in the Northwest.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedAfrican solutions to African problems is the driving force behind security improvements on the continent, a senior DoD official said.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedChange is coming to the National Defense University, but one thing that won't change is that it will remain the "pre-eminent leadership school in the nation," said Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedA U.S. assessment team is in the Ukrainian capital to advise in investigation and recovery efforts following the downing of a Malaysian airliner.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedAn American general has been killed in Afghanistan in a suspected insider attack believed to have been carried out by a member of the Afghan security forces.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedThe undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics again called on Congress to eliminate the threat of another budget sequester.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedThe Defense Department's top voting official is offering tips on how service members should deal with absentee voting.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedDefense Secretary Chuck Hagel has established an Ebola task force to evaluate how the department can most effectively support U.S. government and international prevention efforts.
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Monday, August 4, 2014 from militarytimes.comSeventy years ago, the original GI Bill provided a bridge to the middle class for veterans returning from war who may have otherwise found limited opportunity in the civilian world.
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Monday, August 4, 2014 from militarytimes.comA handful of 'old-timers' sit in a downtown cafe tucked between vacant buildings as old as they are and gossip over a pot of coffee.
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Monday, August 4, 2014 from militarytimes.comA lawyer for the Guantanamo Bay detainee accused of orchestrating the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen asked the new judge in the case to recuse himself Monday, citing possible conflicts stemming from the judge's involvement in an e...
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Monday, August 4, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe Pentagon's investigative agency has cleared the Marine Corps' top general of allegations he and other senior officials manipulated military justice to ensure several troops were punished for a making an inappropriate video three year...
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Monday, August 4, 2014 from militarytimes.comDefense Department officials are discussing the possibility of sending more personnel to western Africa to assist with the Ebola epidemic there.
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Monday, August 4, 2014 from militarytimes.comIraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has called upon his country's armed forces to help Kurdish forces battle a Sunni militant offensive in northern Iraq that has caused tens of thousands of people from the minority Yazidi community to ...
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Monday, August 4, 2014 from militarytimes.comWhen the military's top cyberwarriors gathered last year inside a secretive compound at Fort Meade, Maryland, for a classified war game exercise, a team of active-duty troops faced off against several teams of reservists.
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Monday, August 4, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe U.S. military says one of its reconnaissance aircraft mistakenly veered into Swedish airspace as it attempted to avoid an encounter with Russian planes over the Baltic Sea.
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Monday, August 4, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe Air Force Academy said Sunday it has launched an investigation of its athletic department and is demanding more accountability from coaches after the Colorado Springs Gazette reported allegations of lax oversight and athlete misconduct.
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Monday, August 4, 2014 from militarytimes.comThe inaugural deployment of the P-8A Poseidon is now in the books.
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Monday, August 4, 2014 from militarytimes.comCombat uniforms featuring the service's newest camo pattern will be available for sale starting in the summer of 2015, the Army announced Thursday.
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Monday, August 4, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedBuilding personal relationships with leaders is just as important, sometimes even more so, as the ability to project force, Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. John F. Campbell said.
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Monday, August 4, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedOhio Gov. John Kasich has ordered a contingent of the state's National Guard to active duty in response to an algae bloom that's impacted Toledo's public water system.
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Monday, August 4, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedMilitary Surface Deployment and Distribution Command and U.S. Transportation Command are standing up a team of transportation experts to quickly address the most significant challenges and concerns military customers are facing when ship...
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Monday, August 4, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedMarine Corps Maj. Eric Hugg is a part of an exchange program that gives Marine Corps pilots the opportunity to fly with the Air Force's 55th Fighter Squadron.
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Monday, August 4, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedTwo Defense Department C-130 aircraft equipped with U.S. Forest Service's Modular Airborne Fire Fighting Systems and under the command and control of U.S. Northern Command are assisting with wildfire suppression efforts in the Northwest,...
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Monday, August 4, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedStaff from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases are in Liberia responding to the world's worst outbreak of Ebola.
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Monday, August 4, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedThe judge in the military commission hearing the case of the alleged USS Cole bomber has taken on three hours of questioning from defense attorneys.
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Monday, August 4, 2014 from American Forces Press Service News FeedDefense Secretary Chuck Hagel welcomed new members of his management team during a ceremony at the Pentagon.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire8/5/14 Analysis, pt. 1 // Israel-Hamas war: Regional context Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments After the first twenty-four hours, the 72-hour Egypt-sponsored Gaza cease-fire appears to be holding – someth...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire8/5/14 Border security Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments While Congress and the White House struggle to pass a bipartisan solution to the influx of Central American children and families crossing the U.S....
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire8/5/14 Ebola Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Foreign health workers and medical staff are traveling to West Africa to help communities battle the deadliest Ebola outbreak on record. More than sixty loca...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire8/5/14 Domestic threats Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Sovereign citizen, Islamist extremist, and militia/patriot groups are perceived by law enforcement agencies to pose the greatest threats to their ...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire8/5/14 Cybersecurity Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is joining Bechtel BNI and Los Alamos National Laboratory to train a new class of cyber defense professi...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Homeland Security News WirePublic health Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments A microbe detection array technology developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ) scientists could provide a new rapid method for public hea...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire8/5/14 Earthquakes Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Nearly forgotten research from decades ago complicates the task of quantifying earthquake hazards in the Pacific Northwest, according to a new report f...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire8/5/14 Water Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments This past weekend, when officials in Toledo, Ohio discovered elevated levels of microcystin, a toxin caused by algal blooms, in their water supply after volu...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from THN : The Hacker NewsYahoo-owned Flickr, one of the biggest online photo management and sharing website in the world was recently impacted by a web application vulnerability, which could allow an attacker to modify users’ profile image. Flickr is one of the ...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from THN : The Hacker NewsJobvite, a recruiting platform for the social web, is found vulnerable to the most common, but critical web application vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to compromise and steal the database of the company's website. Jobvite i...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from THN : The Hacker NewsTor has always been a tough target for law enforcement for years, but the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has found a way to successfully track users across the network. Just a few days back, Tor made a difficult anno...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from National Cybersecurity Institute
When an attacker attempts to gain access to your network, servers, sensitive information, and other important assets, one of the preferred methods is acquiring legitimate credentials. This might be accomplished in a number of ways, but o... -
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from THN : The Hacker NewsIf we talk about old days, a hacker often rely on the natural helpfulness as well as weaknesses of people whom he wanted to target. This tactic to break into a computer network by gaining the confidence of an authorized user and get them...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: access_control_identification Intellicheck Mobilisa , a provider of identity solutions and wireless security systems, has expanded its agreement with a major U.S. supermarket chain to provide driver’s license s...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: airport_aviation_security In an early morning television interview with CNN earlier this week, Gary Strahan, founder and CEO of Infrared Cameras, Inc . of Beaumont, TX released a dramatic piece of news. His com...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: infrastructure_protection Record high demand for illegally traded wildlife products, coupled with inadequate preventative measures and weak institutions, has resulted in an explosion of illicit trade in wildlif...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: cyber_security When it comes to data restoration, addressing deleted mailboxes, or emails is the most common request of IT administrators, according to new survey data provided by Kroll Ontrack , a p...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: access_control_identification According to a published report from Security Strategy Group, an index of small-cap public security companies gained 13.1% for the first half of 2014, significantly outperforming t...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: cyber_security Quantum Secure of San Jose, CA has announced the launch of SAFE for Secure Cloud, increasing the accessibility of its physical identity and access management (PIAM) solution. As an alternative to...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: cyber_security Cleve Adams wants you to know that while you were busy updating your WiFi router’s firewall and giving your laptop a strong password, your vacuum cleaner and smart lighting system were conspiring...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: access_control_identification The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has awarded MorphoTrust USA (Safran) a contract to provide Credential Authentication Technology (E-CAT) for U.S. airports. The $85 ...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: disaster_preparedness_emergency_response Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate has appointed 12 new members and reappointed two current members to FEMA’s National Advisory C...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from Government Security NewsTop Priority Sector: cyber_security Tempe, AZ-based LifeLock , a provider of identity theft protection, has announced new product enhancements, including personalized activity alerts on credit card, checking, and savings account tr...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from Cybersecurity on Huffington Post
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from World news: NSA | theguardian.comMax Schrems, 26, who accuses social network of data violations and supporting NSA spying, calls response to his appeal 'giant' More than 17,000 Facebook members have joined a class action lawsuit accusing the social network of violating ...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from The Register - SecurityThree presentations now pulled from hacking shindig Two further talks have been pulled from this year's Black Hat USA program.…
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from Cybersecurity on Huffington Post
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from ThreatpostA security researcher has uncovered a simple method for bypassing the two-factor authentication mechanism that PayPal uses to protect accounts that are tied to eBay accounts. The vulnerability is related to the way that the login flow wo...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from News BlogIn the run-up to the 2012 primary elections in Mingo County, West Virginia, a group of officials adopted a campaign slogan to promote their political slate: Team Mingo. But the judge, sheriff, and county prosecuting attorney who were par...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from ComputerWeekly: IT securityThe latest level of the Cyber Security Challenge will involve participants hacking devices connected to the internet of things
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from eSecurityPlanet RSS FeedBlack Hat workshop to discuss security concerns of software-as-a-service applications. Not surprisingly, uninformed users pose some of the biggest risks.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from eSecurityPlanet RSS FeedA data sanitization process failed for 30 days, exposing 76,000 email addresses and 4,000 encrypted passwords.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from ComputerWeekly: IT securityOver half the incidents reported to CERT-UK in the first three months of its operation were not related to critical national infrastructure
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from ThreatpostResearchers will discuss a study into the effectiveness of telephone fraud against enterprise call centers, and how these attacks are sometimes combine with hacks or malware attacks.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from The Register - SecurityWell, if you will make basic security cockups... Israeli spies are alleged to have snooped on John Kerry’s phone calls during recent Middle East peace talks.…
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from ThreatpostIn this special edition of the Digital Underground Podcast, Dennis Fisher interviews fellow Threatpost editor Mike Mimoso and also Threatpost reporter Brian Donohue about the Black Hat security conference, which begins this week in Las V...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from ComputerWeekly: IT securityHP is suing Autonomy's former chief financial officer, Sushovan Hussain, for his part in the 2011 acquisition of the UK software company
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire8/4/14 Israel-Hamas war, Day 29 Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Both Israel and the Palestinian delegation to Cairo, which includes Hamas representatives, have accepted an Egyptian proposal for a 72-hou...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from Homeland Security News Wire8/4/14 Israel-Hamas war, Day 30 Enable IntenseDebate Comments: Enable IntenseDebate Comments Hamas is an avowedly and openly anti-Semitic movement, and the group’s loathing of Jews is part and parcel of its charter and what it teac...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from ComputerWeekly: IT securityThe latest CW500 Club invited IT leaders to discuss the challenges of governance with the rise of 'shadow IT' outside the IT team
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from THN : The Hacker NewsResearchers have warned users of Android devices to avoid app downloads from particularly unauthorized sources, since a new and sophisticated piece of malware is targeting Android users through phishing emails. The malware, dubbed Sandro...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from ThreatpostIt was an absurd scene. Keith Alexander, the director of the NSA and a four-star general in the Army, stood alone on the stage, squinting through the floodlights as members of the standing-room-only crowd shouted insults and accusations....
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from The Register - Security'Security first' gets more NB for little guys Sysadmin blog The recent Synology Synolocker issue should serve as a splash of cold water to any vendors in the tech industry that design and sell systems that are largely unattended or unm...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from ComputerWeekly: IT securityMozilla has leaked the personal data of 76,000 users of its Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) it has revealed this week
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from THN : The Hacker NewsAlmost a year ago, at the ‘Hack In The Box’ security summit in Amsterdam, a security researcher at N.Runs and a commercial airline pilot, Hugo Teso presented a demonstration that it's possible to take control of aircraft flight systems a...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from The Register - SecurityBadness uses innocent-looking mailer for c&c ops Cybercrooks commonly run botnet command-and-control networks using servers or (less frequently) a peer-to-peer network, but one gang of scammers has broken the mould by managing a Troj...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from ComputerWeekly: IT securityWhile its CEO is pushing the heterogeneity agenda, Microsoft is on the attack, taking legal action against rival phone maker Samsung
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from National Cybersecurity Institute
When your organization encounters a cyber-attack or major data breach, it typically impacts many segments outside of the information technology group. Your planning efforts must include how to bring the assets of these other groups into ... -
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from The Register - SecurityKonica Minolta, Sharp, Dell, Canon and HP printers spew credentials when probed It is now easier than ever to hack corporate networks through multifunction printers, which can even offer up access to Active Directory accounts according t...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014 from The Register - SecurityWin 8 Pro tip: Govt spyware can't tap Skype's Metro app A string of documents detailing the operations and effectiveness of the FinFisher suite of surveillance platforms appears to have been leaked.…
