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checkfree-breach

Holy Cow.

Hackers on Tuesday hijacked the Web site CheckFree.com, one of the largest online bill payment companies, redirecting an unknown number of visitors to a Web address that tried to install malicious software on visitors' computers, the company said today.
First, I find it very hard to believe that you would hijack the domain for one of the world's largest payment processor and only try to install malware.

how-to-secure-vnc-remote-access-with-two-factor

I've written another how-to for Howtoforge. This article describes how to combine WiKID and NoMachine's NX products to secure VNC. It should be noted that NoMachine offers a lot more functionality and speed than just tunneling VNC through SSH. It is incredibly fast and allows for remote X and RPD in addition to VNC. They have a version that is free for two concurrent connections.

how-to-thwart-laptop-facial-recognition-systems

With a picture.

brand-damage-stock-price-and-cockroaches

Brand Damage versus Corporate Competence

Yesterday, Tim Erlin had an interesting and very thought provoking post about breach and brand damage.. Tim rightly takes offense at the idea of the infinite "brand damage" often used to sell information security products. With as little as infosec geeks know about marketing, it's probably best to avoid that phrase altogether. A "brand" is a nebulous idea at best and security probably does not matter at all in most brands. I think it is also hard to try to tie stock performance to brand value. There a lots of great stocks that sell commodity goods. If Exxon/Mobil had a security breach when oil was at $30/barrel, how would you measure the impact of the breach as oil goes to $60?

more-on-the-nsa-wiretaps-fro-m-the-national

The National Journal has an interesting update on the technology used in the NSA wiretaps.

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