A group of over 30 national and international computer security groups on Tuesday released a list of the 25 most dangerous programming errors as part of an effort to make the custom software business more accountable.
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Network World - Pervasive social networking may herald the future's most critical insider threat: cyber-chattiness.
Individuals are simply revealing too much about their professional lives online. It might be possible, for example, to cross reference a Facebook post about a "big project that isn't looking good" with other posts and piece together sensitive corporate information. And while a LinkedIn request for a job recommendation reveals a job seeker, two or more seekers in the same division could reveal company upheaval.
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Half an hour into an emergency meeting of a mock National Security Council, the attorney general declared: "We don't have the authority in this nation as a government to quarantine people's cellphones."
The White House cyber coordinator was "shocked" and asserted: "If we don't have the authority, the attorney general ought to find it."
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A series of online attacks on Google and dozens of other American corporations have been traced to computers at two educational institutions in China, including one with close ties to the Chinese military, say people involved in the investigation.
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