Technology Mashup

Securing access to information is important to any business, especially for business-critical systems that manage sensitive data, as is often the case for systems based on IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS). Security becomes even more critical for implementations structured according to service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles, due to loose coupling of services and applications, and their possible operations across trust boundaries...

Redbook

Computerworld is reporting that over 100 domains have been registered in the past 48 hours relating to hurricane Gustav.

Although not all will have nefarious purposes, security experts are warning people to be careful of phishing scams and bogus charity scams that might emerge as relief operations go into full swing.

By Steve Nimmons

Interesting article from Mark Watts on the Risk Management blog at Computer Weekly today with the snippet below requiring Britain to respond to the EU commissioner in respect of whether Phorm complies with data protection legislation.

More on the DNS exploit courtesy of Microsoft Security Advisory...

Microsoft Security Advisory (956187): Increased Threat for DNS Spoofing Vulnerability - 7/25/2008 -

More DNS woes circulating...

Attacks begin on net address flaw - Net firms urged to patch address flaw as attacks that exploit it circulate online.

[BBC UK Technology News]

Not quite sure how velocity of a pointy projective can be adequately tailored with any certainty. Can you imagine the court case - "your Honour, the gun was set to wound and must have been faulty!". Um!

Toy rocket inspires variable-speed bullets - The technology behind liquid-hydrogen-propelled rockets is being used to make guns that can switched from "wound" to "kill"

 

Seems like a surprising judgement to say the least...

Oyster card hack to be published - A Dutch judge rules that details of how to copy Oyster cards can be published.

[BBC UK Technology News]

Crying wolf on Facebook security - Facebook is today's version of the conversation by the water cooler.Why are we so hung-up on the security issues of social networking sites? asks Cliff Saran

[Cliff Saran's Blog]

Inside NSA Red Team Secret Ops With Government's Top Hackers - The NSA has made headlines in the past few years for wiretapping and data-mining of questionable legality, but one of its primary functions is protecting the military's computer networks, and that's where the red team comes in.