Elamb Cybersecurity

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  • Certified Information Privacy Professional

    As the folks at TechCruch stated, “Privacy is the New Black” just ask the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).  Information is becoming more and more valuable, particularly YOUR personal information.  I would submit that in the Information Age personal data is the most important commodity.

    With globalization upon us, products and serivces are the life blood of the worlds economy.  The economy is the framework on which we employed or become employers.  It is an endless cycle.  Those on top are the ones who can target their respective market the best.   

    The Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) is a certification for privacy professionals.  It is a certification for those that realize the impact of unsecured personal information.  There is a CIPP/g for government and a CIPP/C especially for Canadians.

     

  • TechCruch: Privacy the New Black

    TechCruch posted an article that caught my eye.  Because Privacy is so important, I give you: Privacy is the New Black

    After a week where Ask launched AskEraser, a product that allows users to erase their search history, and Google announced a reduction in retained data time from 2038 to 18 months, more privacy initiatives are on their way.

    According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft will officially announce Monday “new policies and technologies to protect the privacy of users of its Live Search services” and Yahoo will announce plans for “a policy to make all of a user’s search data anonymous within 13 months of receiving it.”

    Read more of http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/22/privacy-is-the-new-black/

  • Standard Desktop Configuration (SDC) News

    The Department of Defense has implemented the Standard Desktop Configuration (SDC) environment which allow all systems to have a uniform level of security. 

    ALL SDC all the time: https://afecmo.gunter.af.mil/default.aspx

    Now the rest of the federal goverment is jumping on the Information Assurance Bandwagon with something called the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC).

    SDC version 2 (Vista) is already in the works as well as Standard Server Configuration (SCC).

  • Tranax ATM Default Passcode is 123456

    It reminds me of Space Balls.  The evil Space Balls kidnap Princess Vespa and force King Roland into giving up his password that will allow them to suck all the precious air off of planet Druidia.  That password it “12345” (which just happens be the same password Space Ball President Skroob has on his luggage).

     The Triton ATMs have two levels of password: an administrative passcode for routine daily operations, and a “master passcode” that also lets you change the cash machine’s basic configuration.  Mastrorocco says he changed the administrative code when he got the machine three years ago, but Cardtronics never told him to change the master passcode, which he didn’t normally use.

    http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/07/atm-reprogrammi.html – ATM Reprogramming Caper Hits Pennsylvania

     

  • Security for Google Apps with Postini

    With Postini Solutions, you can secure all of your electronic communications – email, instant messaging and the web – and manage your company’s communication policies from one central location. Postini Solutions can also make it easy to meet your archiving and encryption needs.

    More here. 

    We realized that we needed a more complete way to address these information security and compliance issues in order to better support the enterprise community. That’s why we’re excited to share the news that we’ve agreed to acquire Postini, a company that offers security and corporate compliance solutions for email, IM, and other web-based communications.

    Google Blog post on Postini

  • Drupal 5.1 is pretty bad ass

    I’ve loaded up Drupal 5.1 on one of my blogs and I am very impressed.  I’ve always like drupal for is swiss army knife of content management systems.  It is superior to most content management systems by it is FREE!  

    I’ve messed around with Expression Engine and Joomla and Drupal wins over both of them.  Joomla is pretty and Expression Engine is gorgeous in design and implemenation making it easier for web designers, but Drupal has been around longer and has all kinds of cool tools. 

    One thing that is rather consistently sucky about all CMS’s is that it is difficult to get your content off of them and on to WordPress or Typepad.  Content transfer is very important to me, because I like to try different things.  I’ve lost content on Drupal because I simply could get the stuff out of their without a whole lot of copy and paste. 

    Drupal 5.1 is much easier to implement than some of the older versions of Drupal.  The designs are also much better.  Drupal has the open source, linuxy, mysql, do it yourself feel that I really like, however there is the a “cost to be the boss”.  The geek factor required on Drupal is something many people don’t want to deal with.  An I must admit there are times when I just want to post a blog, not figure out why I’m getting some sql error cause by some new tool I just added. 

  • The Gold Disk v2

    I was using the Gold Disk today and I noticed that (unlike version 1) it did not automatically fix everything.  It left the password setting alone so I had to do that all manually.  I think its for the best because the old one could lock down the system by screwing with the password settings.

    update: gold disk v2 can do automatic fixes, but as I said before, I had to do a lot of things manually.

  • Cyberwar is coming!

    ANYONE who follows technology or military affairs has heard the predictions for more than a decade. Cyberwar is coming. But how bad would a cyberwar really be — especially when compared with the blood-and-guts genuine article? Whatever the answer, governments are readying themselves for the Big One.

    When Computers Attack – NYTIMES article

  • Hacker Taps Cell Phone to Stalk Family

    A stalker is on the loose — and may be watching and listening in your bedroom, bathroom or office meeting.

    Just ask Tim Kuykendall, whose cell phone provided a portal through which a hacker gained access to the most intimate details of his life, recording family members’ conversations and snapping pictures of what they were wearing.

    “We’ve had [times] where I’m having a conversation in my home and I get a voice mail and the conversation’s replayed; received a phone call or even checked my voice mail from a message and while I push ‘OK’ to listen to [it] I’m hearing a conversation going on in the living room between my daughter and my wife,” he told FOX News.

    More on foxnews (with video)

     

  • Caution: This is Sparta!

    Caution: This is Sparta