CommunityDNS News Bits, May 1, 2009.
Provided by CommunityDNS, the information in this post consists of news items in the security-based Internet community.
A sweet solution to the insider threat
Much of today’s compromising of data occurs from internal sources. It is not in the best interest of any business to disclose breaches in data. Employees/contractors are also held under NDA. However, breaches in security continue to happen.
One of the more favored ways of catching unsuspecting employees in the act is to take a nearly-decommissioned PC or server and turn it into a “honeypot”. Successfully stealth implementations have exposed employees seeking to mine for and download secure information or employees seeking to search out information above their authorization level. Honeypots can also be used to discover snooping from external sources.
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Mac bomb ticks for security smug users
We have seen through previous postings of Macs being quickly hacked at hacker conferences and the iBotnet, the first made-for-Mac virus.
What this story points out is while the Mac can be easier to hack than Vista and Unbuntu systems, Macs are less exposed because there is more money to be made through Windows-based systems. One thing noted is most Mac users don’t run anti-virus software and if they do, updates are rare. Also, Apple is slow to patch holes for the Unix/BSD back-en than other Unix variants.
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Minnesota orders ISPs to blacklist gambling sites
Minnesota, on of the U.S. states, has handed ISPs a seven page blacklist of sites that are to be filtered for providing gambling via the Internet. Such ISPs include the giants such as AT&T, Comcast, Qwest and Sprint/Nextel.
Citing the fact that gambling is illegal in Minnesota, a note to the ISPs from Minnesota’s Department of Public Safety said that, “upon notice by a law enforcement agency that you do not allow your systems to be used for the transmission of gambling information.”
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Iranians and Others Outwit Net Censors
As countries and states are either currently or looking to apply filters that prevent people from reaching sites on the Internet, some organizations have developed software that allows people to get around firewalls and censorship for complete access to the Internet. Sources of such technology for escaping censorship have come from places such as China and the United States Naval Research Laboratories. Servers, outside of countries enforcing censorship, are growing in numbers to where people, when attached to the servers, can have full access to the Internet.
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Google envisions future of floating, blue-green data centers
Google and International Data Security are both exploring ways of taking data centers out to sea. Google recently received a patent for their model of floating centers.
(Comment: While still much to work out, the concept is cool.)
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