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DoD responds to elderly worm by yanking removable media - Beta News
The Department of Defense has allegedly responded to an infection by a variant of the elderly W32.Silly worm by banning the use of removable media -- thumb drives, flash memory cards for cameras, and all. SillyFDC , to give it perhaps more attention ...
Posted Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:45:00 GMT
NASA has instructed employees not to use personally owned thumb drives or other forms of removable media on government computer systems, but stopped short of a ban as comprehensive as that issued by the Defense Department earlier this month. To post ...
Posted Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:04:00 GMTCyber-Attack Cripples Critical U.S. Military Networks - Softpedia
After the U.S. Strategic Command banned the use of removable media on the army's networks last week, new details about the incidents that might have triggered this drastic decision surfaced. The networks of the U.S. Central Command, which oversees ...
Posted Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:18:00 GMTUtimaco Overviews the PendingPerfect Stor of Data Breaches over the ... - Consumer Electronics Net
Utimaco The Data Security Company, today issued a warning for companies and consumers who may have unknowingly put their personal or corporate data at risk over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend due to device loss and data theft that can occur when ...
Posted Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:37:00 GMTUtimaco Overviews the Pending “Perfect Storm†of Data ... - PR Inside
www.utimaco.com - Utimaco " The Data Security Company, today issued a warning for companies and consumers who may have unknowingly put their personal or corporate data at risk over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend due to device loss and data theft ...
Posted Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:44:00 GMTVirus hits nearly 75% of systems on Afghanistan military base - ZDNet Blogs
Earlier this month we saw the military ban the use of USB drives and other removable media . Apparently the virus outbreak that lead to this measure affected 75\% of all systems at the largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan. Details are still ...
Posted Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:01:00 GMTPersonal storage devices worry feds - Huntsville Times
Small and convenient, memory sticks and storage cards are worrying Pentagon and NASA managers who say the devices could infect federal computer networks with destructive viruses and worms. Government information security managers late last week laid ...
Posted Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:37:00 GMTObama, Pentagon Suffer Security Breaches - InternetNews.com
Security breaches have struck both President-elect Barack Obama and the Pentagon, with both cases pointing to holes in policy, tracking and enforcement, according to observers. In Obama's case, Verizon Wireless employees stole a peek at his old cell ...
Posted Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:54:00 GMTApple iPhone 3G - PC World
Innovative design and seamless integration between software and hardware propelled the first-generation iPhone to instant stardom. Its successor, the iPhone 3G, at once expands upon that innovation--and delivers it at half the entry price of its ...
Posted Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:32:00 GMTIEEE format allows cross-platform secure USB drives - MacNN
A recent IEEE standards group format should reach upcoming operating systems soon and eliminate many of the worries over removable drives at work. Known as IEEE 1667 , the standard would establish a way for "transient storage devices" such as USB ...
Posted Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:49:00 GMT
