InfoSec News: Hackers change grades at Fort Bend ISD high school: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5750954.html

By ERIC HANSON
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
May 3, 2008

SUGAR LAND — Four high school students are being investigated on
suspicion of breaking into the Fort Bend Independent School District's [...]

InfoSec News: Intelligence Bureau Rejects RIM Proposal: http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Intelligence_Bureau_Rejects_RIM_Propo...

Techtree News Staff
May 2, 2008

Here's the next episode of the ongoing Blackberry saga... Word has it
that the Intelligence Bureau (IB) has rejected RIM's (Research in [...]

InfoSec News: Alpha males square up at Infosec: http://www.pcw.co.uk/crn/analysis/2215678/alpha-males-square-infosec-397...

By Doug Woodburn
CRN
01 May 2008

The great and the good of the IT security channel descended upon
London’s Olympia late last month for Infosec 2008, but some left in two [...]

The Ninth Circuit's recent ruling in United States v. Arnold allows border patrol agents to search your laptop or other digital device without limitation when you are entering the country.

InfoSec News: How Not to Hire an Information Security Officer Who's on Parole: http://csoonline.com/article/340113/How_Not_to_Hire_an_Information_Secur...

By Anonymous
CSO Online
April 23, 2008

I was having lunch last week with the senior executive for one of the
large agencies in the government organization where I work, when I asked [...]

InfoSec News: Cyberwarfare: Darpa's New 'Space Race': http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/05/the-pentagon-wa.html

By Sharon Weinberger
Danger Room
Wired.com
May 01, 2008

The Defense Advance Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, was created 50
years ago, in response to the Soviets' launch of Sputnik. In less than a [...]

InfoSec News: Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2008-18: ========================================================================

The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary
2008-04-25 - 2008-05-02

This week: 63 advisories
[...]

InfoSec News: Linux Advisory Watch: May 2nd, 2008: +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| LinuxSecurity.com Weekly Newsletter |
| May 2nd, 2008 Volume 9, Number 18 |
| | [...]

InfoSec News: Pikoli's hacker 'willing to negotiate': http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=vn20080503083...

By Karyn Maughan
Independent Online
May 03 2008

A hacker is threatening to release sensitive documents stolen from Vusi
Pikoli's computer to the press - if the suspended National Prosecuting [...]

InfoSec News: Experts struggle with cybersecurity agenda: http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/46189-1.html

By William Jackson
GCN Staff
04/28/08

Whoever becomes our next president will inherit a cyber infrastructure
under almost constant attack and at greater risk than eight years ago,
and a handful of experts and legislators have come together to ensure
that cybersecurity has a high priority in his or her administration.

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InfoSec News: LayerOne 2008 - Final Update: Forwarded from: Layer One <layeronecfp (at) gmail.com>

LayerOne
May 17-18, 2008
Pasadena Hilton, Pasadena, CA
http://layerone.info

We are now just weeks away from this years LayerOne event and we wanted
to share some of the great things we have going on with you. [...]

InfoSec News: Security vendors slam Defcon virus contest: Forwarded from: Paul Ferguson <fergdawg (at) netzero.net>
Cc: jericho (at) attrition.org

- -- security curmudgeon <jericho (at) attrition.org> wrote:

[...]

saying for a long time; Anti-Virus as it exists today is an entirely
reactionary protection mechanism. [...]

InfoSec News: Former UCLA employee indicted for snooping celebrity medical records: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37197/118/

By Humphrey Cheung
TG Daily
April 30, 2008

Los Angeles (CA) – A former UCLA Medical Center employee has been
indicted for allegedly illegally accessing the computerized medical
records of celebrities. [...]

InfoSec News: What's Up with the Secret Cybersecurity Plans, Senators Ask DHS: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05/senate-panel-qu.html

By Ryan Singel
Threat Level
Wired.com
May 02, 2008

The government's new cyber-security "Manhattan Project" is so secretive
that a key Senate oversight panel has been reduced to writing a letter [...]

InfoSec News: Botnet attacks military systems: http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=12148

By Matthew Broersma
Techworld
02 May 2008

Security researchers have discovered a complex spamming scheme that
hijacks users' PCs in order to attempt to send junk mail via university
and military systems. [...]

A new white paper from Summit Data Communications reveals three best practices for ensuring that Wi-Fi client devices are compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. The best prac...

InfoSec News: Oracle Database Susceptible To Rare Attack: http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/database_apps/showArticle.j...

By Charles Babcock
InformationWeek
April 29, 2008

A SQL injection attack that may be executed against the Oracle (NSDQ:
ORCL) database was recently documented by database security researcher [...]

InfoSec News: Security gets into the mix: http://www.gcn.com/print/27_9/46166-1.html

By William Jackson
GCN Interview
04/28/08 issue

Natalie Givans, a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton.s information
and mission assurance and resilience group, has gained experience during
her career in analyzing and designing security for a variety of
government and commercial information and communication systems.

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