If you’ve been waiting for the right handbook to come along and tell you how to build your own forensic laboratory, keep waiting. The National Institute of Standards Technology (NIST)’s new edition of the “Forensic Science Laboratories: Handbook for Facility …
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Information Security mostly revolves around defense in depth. Hitherto, we have had ‘Intrusion Detection’ and ‘Intrusion Prevention’ tools and techniques. But the newest technique in securing information assets, ‘Intrusion Deception’, has turned the security concept upside down and relies on counter offensive ‘honey pot’ methodology to protect the information assets in an organization. Continue reading “Intrusion Deception – Counter offense is the best defense”
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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
A flaw has been discovered in the security of 500 million mobile phones that could them vulnerable to attack, cyber researchers have said.
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BYOD is a phrase that is being bandied around in corporate cirles these days. BYOD stands for “Bring Your Own Device”. It refers to the fairly recent phenomenon of employees bringing their own smartphones or tablets to work and connecting to the corporate network with it.
Continue reading “Should You BYOD?”
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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.
Original article here.
Tata Communications Payment Solutions Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Communications Ltd …
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Facebook is alerting 6 million of its users that their e-mails or phone numbers were inadvertently shared with other members. So is it another reason to condemn social networking sites Continue reading “Another Social Network Glitch”
