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ISACA updates IS Audit and Assurance Standards
ISACA has issued revised Information Systems (IS) Audit and Assurance Standards. The standards have an effective date of 1 November 2013.
Introduced in 1988, the IS Audit and Assurance Standards Read original article at Net-Security
Mobile Phone Flaw Opens 500m SIMs To Hackers
A flaw has been discovered in the security of 500 million mobile phones that could them vulnerable to attack, cyber researchers have said.
via https://www.topix.net/tech/computer-security/2013/07/mobile-phone-flaw-opens-500m-sims-to-hackers?fromrss=1
Insurance company, WellPoint, fined $1.7m over data exposure
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This Is Not a Test: Emergency Broadcast Systems Proved Hackable
Several models of Emergency Alert System decoders, used to break into TV and radio broadcasts to announce public safety warnings, have vulnerabilities that would allow hackers to hijack them and deliver fake messages to the public, according to an announcement by a security firm on Monday.
The vulnerabilities included a private root SSH key that was distributed in publicly available firmware images that would have allowed an attacker with SSH access to a device to log in with root privileges and issue fake alerts or disable the system.
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Tata intros India’s first white label ATM network
Tata Communications Payment Solutions Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Communications Ltd …
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Knoppix 7.2 Released
hypnosec writes “Knoppix 7.2 has been released for public testing — unlike its predecessor, Knoppix 7.1, which was only made available through the annual Linux Magazine CeBIT edition. Based on Debian “Wheezy”, Knoppix 7.2 packs quite a few new features, including newer desktop packages from Debian/testing and Debian/unstable Jessie. The latest version uses the Linux 3.9 kernel and xorg 7.7, and comes loaded with LibreOffice 4.0, GIMP 2.8, Chromium 27 (and Firefox/Iceweasel 21), Wine 1.5, and Virtualbox version 4.2.10. It uses LXDE by default. For users who still want to go for KDE or GNOME, version 4.8.4 and 3.4.2 of the respective desktops are available from the Knoppix DVD.”
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CloudCube Is One App that Manages All Your Cloud Storage Space
Android: Instead of keeping a half-dozen apps on your phone to manage all of the free cloud storage you’ve signed up for, CloudCube is a single app that gives you complete control over all of them. The app supports two-way upload and download, automatic syncing, and more.
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The state of risk-based security management
A new Ponemon Institute survey covers risk-based security management program governance and maturity and includes 571 U.K. and 749 U.S. respondents from the following areas: IT security, IT operations…
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Too Many Passwords, One Startup Looks To Solve The Problem
Canadian password security firm, PasswordBox, is bursting out of the gate today, coming out of private beta to hit the mainstream market. The company is hoping its mostly free, multi-device password management system will catch on with consumers beyond the 500,000 that have been using the service while it was in stealth development.
The CEO of the company, which was founded last year and has offices in San Francisco and Montreal, is Daniel Robichaud, a serial entrepreneur whose last venture, StreamTheWorld, was acquired by Triton Digital in 2009 for about $46 million.
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