Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Anonymous threatens to DDOS root Internet servers

Computerworld Security: February 21, 2012
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Anonymous threatens to DDOS root Internet servers

An upcoming campaign announced by the hacking group Anonymous directed against
the Internet's core address lookup system is unlikely to cause much damage,
according to one security expert.
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IN THIS ISSUE

1. Mozilla gives CAs a chance to come clean about certificate policy violations
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2. Security in the Cloud Is All About Visibility and Control
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3. The FBI and the DOJ want you to report suspicious people and monitor social networks. Goodbye liberty
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Mozilla gives CAs a chance to come clean about certificate policy violations

Mozilla has asked all certificate authorities (CAs) to revoke subordinate CA
certificates currently used for corporate SSL traffic management, offering an
amnesty to any CAs that had breached Mozilla's conditions for having their root
certificates ship with its products.
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Security in the Cloud Is All About Visibility and Control

When it comes to security in the cloud, organizations are confident in their
cloud providers, but also and reluctant to expose certain types of data and
applications, according to IT industry association CompTIA. Security vendors
maintain the problem is one of visibility and control, and each has a solution.
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The FBI and the DOJ want you to report suspicious people and monitor social networks. Goodbye liberty

Some of the worst consequences of terrorism come not from the real dangers that
terrorism poses but in our efforts to defend ourselves from something that is
incredibly hard to define and predict.
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See, it's not working!

Government IT office gets a call from a user complaining that her user ID
doesn't work, and this pilot fish with more important things to do has to drop
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