Posts Tagged ‘sans’

Separation of Duties in Information Technology

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Several authors join Stephen Northcutt to examine the special considerations for separation of duties in all organizations with regard to their information technology.

Global Payments Breach May Date Back to June 2011 (May 1, 2012)

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Visa and MasterCard have sent alerts to card-issuing banks warning them that the data breach at card processor Global Payments dates back to at least June 2011.......

Pentagon Cyber Command Seeking Elevated Status (May 1, 2012)

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US military leaders want to elevate the Pentagon's Cyber Command to full combatant status, which would allow the two-year-old cyberwarfare unit greater access to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin E.......

Federal Judge in NY Comes Down Hard on Copyright Trolls (May 2, 2012)

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A federal judge in New York has lashed out at copyright trolls, plaintiffs who attempt to sue dozens of anonymous computer users in one case for copyright violations, hoping to get each to settle for several thousand dollars rather than go to trial.......

EU Court Limits How Programming Languages and Program Functionality Can be Copyrighted (May 2, 2012)

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The European Court of Justice has ruled that computer program functionality and programming languages cannot be copyrighted.......

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday to Address 23 Vulnerabilities (May 3, 2012)

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Microsoft plans to issue seven security bulletins on Tuesday, May 8 to address a total of 23 security flaws in Windows and Office as well as the Silverlight and .......

Sixth Defendant Named in LulzSec/Anonymous Case (May 3, 2012)

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A sixth person, Jeremy Hammond, has been added to the list of people being charged in connection with the LulzSec and Anonymous hacking groups.......

Hackers Accessed UK Ministry of Defense Systems (May 3, 2012)

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The UK Ministry of Defence's (MoD) head of cyber security told the Guardian that hackers managed to gain access to several top secret MoD systems.......

SOCA Temporarily Takes Its Site Offline in Wake of DDoS Attack (May 3, 2012)

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Hackers have launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the website of the UK's Serious Online Crime Agency (SOCA).......

Mozilla Speaks Out Against CISPA (April 30 & May 1 & 2, 2012)

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Mozilla is the first major US company to voice opposition to CISPA, the bill that recently passed in the US House of Representatives.......