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Computerworld Security: Issues and Trends
December 09, 2009
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In this issue:
1. TSA posts document on airport screening procedures online
2. Computer of alleged Sarah Palin hacker had spyware
3. Microsoft patches 12 bugs, including IE8-only flaws
4. Update: Judge affirms $675k verdict in RIAA music piracy case
5. Social network and banking scams are on the rise, says Cisco
6. Microsoft downplays Windows BitLocker attack threat
7. New cloud-based service steals Wi-Fi passwords
8. Economic Recovery: Will Your IT Security Department Leave?
9. Michael Horowitz: Resurrecting restrictd users
10. Computerworld's Salary Survey: What's your earning power?
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TSA posts document on airport screening procedures online
In a gaffe called "shocking" and "reckless" by some U.S. lawmakers, the
Transportation Security Administration inadvertently posted online a 93-page
document containing highly sensitive information on airport screening
procedures.
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Computer of alleged Sarah Palin hacker had spyware
The 21 year-old college student charged with hacking former Alaska Governor
Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account was using a compromised computer that was
secretly logging and reporting information without his knowledge, his lawyers
say.
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Microsoft patches 12 bugs, including IE8-only flaws
Microsoft today patched 12 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office and Internet
Explorer, including three critical bugs in the company's newest browser, IE8.
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Update: Judge affirms $675k verdict in RIAA music piracy case
A federal judge in Boston signed off on a $675,000 fine that a jury assessed
against Boston University doctoral student Joel Tenenbaum for illegally sharing
30 copyrighted songs.
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Social network and banking scams are on the rise, says Cisco
What do phishing, instant messaging malware, DDoS attacks and 419 scams have in
common? According to Cisco Systems, they're all has-been cybercrimes that were
supplanted by slicker, more menacing forms of cybercrime over the past year.
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Microsoft downplays Windows BitLocker attack threat
Microsoft dismissed recently-disclosed threats to its BitLocker disk-encryption
technology as "relatively low risk," noting that attackers not only need
physical access to a targeted PC but they must also manipulate it twice.
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New cloud-based service steals Wi-Fi passwords
For $34, a new cloud-based hacking service can crack a WPA (Wi-Fi Protected
Access) network password in just 20 minutes, its creator says.
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Economic Recovery: Will Your IT Security Department Leave?
After a year of uncertainty and difficult circumstances in business, many
analysts say it appears the economy has begun to calm down and organizations are
slowly shifting from survival mode back to strategically considering ways to
grow business. Sounds like good news, right? According to IANS, a Boston-based
research company that focuses on information security, regulatory compliance and
IT risk management, it is good news, but it doesn't come without some challenges
for information security departments.
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Michael Horowitz: Resurrecting restrictd users
Restricted/standard userids are the best Windows security feature that no one
uses. Under Windows XP, they were impractical. Has Windows 7 finally rendered
them realistic?
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