Daily Archives: November 22, 2006

WEIS 2007

The Sixth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2007) will be held at Carnegie Mellon University on June 6-7, 2007. You can visit conference web site here and there’s a call for papers here, if you want to … Continue reading

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Microsoft vs. Oracle Database Security – Saga Continues

This is third post on the same topic that I’m writing in one week time (see previous posts here and here). But battle that happens is worth it. New article titled “Microsoft beats Oracle in security showdown”, written by Tom … Continue reading

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PCI DSS Compliance As Never-Ending Journey

In recent post on this blog, I’ve talked about PCI Data Security Standard and compliance. An interesting article about this topic comes to my attention today. That article talks about PCI DSS compliance not as a destination, but as a … Continue reading

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Keep Your Laptop Safe

Try to answer some of questions bellow: Do you have backup of data on your laptop? Are files on your laptop encrypted? Do you have biometric security on your laptop and do you use it? Are you careful when logging … Continue reading

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Why Administrative Passwords Will Never Be Like Nuclear Missile Launchers

At the Steve Riley blog: During the past few months many people have lamented that Windows lacks a nuclear missile style control option for administrator passwords. Surely you’ve read about or seen photographs of missile silos where two operators, separated … Continue reading

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