Archive for the ‘SANSNB’ Category

Study Finds Some DNS Servers Still Not Patched Against Cache Poisoning Flaw (November 10, 2008)

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A recent survey of Domain Name System (DNS) servers found that despite widespread press coverage given to a critical DNS vulnerability earlier this year, 25 percent of servers that allow open recursion have not yet been patched…….

Researchers Publish Paper on Breaking WPA TKIP (November 6 & 10, 2008)

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Two German university researchers have discovered a combination of techniques that could allow an attacker to compromise Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption in less than 15 minutes…….

New Apple Exec Ordered to Stop Work for Possible Non-Compete Violation (November 8 & 10, 2008)

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A judge in New York has issued a preliminary injunction ordering Apple’s new executive in charge of the iPhone and the iPod to "immediately cease his employment with Apple Inc…….

Former Sysadmin Arrested for Alleged Extortion (November 10, 2008)

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A systems administrator who had recently been laid off from Third Avenue Management, a New York-based mutual fund company, has been arrested for allegedly threatening to damage his former employer’s servers if they did not meet his demands…….

Woman Gets Four-Year Sentence for Identity Theft and Credit Card Fraud (November 7, 2008)

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Kimberly Ann Mavis was sentenced to four years in federal prison without the possibility of parole for her role in an identity fraud scheme…….

Former Inmate Arrested for Accessing Prison Network (November 6, 7 & 8, 2008)

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Former Plymouth (Massachusetts) County Correctional Facility inmate Francis G…….

Google Fixes Android Flaw (November 7 & 10, 2008)

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Google has fixed a critical vulnerability in its Android operating system…….

Australian Federal Police Files Left on Hotel Computer in Nepal (November 7 & 9, 2008)

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An Australian Federal Police (AFP) officer based in south Asia has been ordered to return to Australia following the revelation that documents and images from AFP USB data storage device were left in a hotel computer in Kathmandu, Nepal…….

Former Intel Employee Faces Additional Charges for Alleged Theft of Trade Secrets (November 6, 2008)

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Former Intel design engineer Biswamohan Pani , who was earlier charged with theft of trade secrets from his former employer before he left for a job at a competing company, has been indicted on additional charges of wire fraud…….

Man Faces Charges for Allegedly Modifying Sniffer Used in Massive Data Theft Case (October 29 & November 5, 2008)

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Federal prosecutors have charged Stephen Watt with conspiracy for allegedly modifying a sniffer program for Albert Gonzalez, the man who masterminded a massive data theft scheme that resulted in the theft of financial account information from the computer networks of numerous companies, including TJX…….