From jericho at attrition.org Wed Apr 1 03:33:37 2009 From: jericho at attrition.org (security curmudgeon) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 03:33:37 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [attrition] [Dataloss] contest: Find The Oldest Known Data Loss Incident! (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Shettler To: "dataloss at datalossdb.org" Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:31:54 -0400 Subject: [Dataloss] contest: Find The Oldest Known Data Loss Incident! Announcing our first ever contest, generously sponsored by CREDANT, AON TechShield, Arcsight, ITAC Sentinel, and StrikeForce Technologies, Inc. Find and submit the oldest data loss incidents you can, and you might get some great prizes in the process! See this link for full contest details: http://datalossdb.org/oldest_incidents_contest First, a little history about the competition: In 2005, the Open Security Foundation launched the Oldest Vulnerability contest for one of our other projects, the Open Source Vulnerability Database, and from it came vulnerabilities dating back as far as 1965. Submissions will be accepted starting at midnight CST, April 1st, 2009 through 11:59pm CST, May 15th, 2009. Incidents must have resulted in a breach of Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Specifically, incidents must have resulted in the loss of one or more of the below: * Social Security Numbers (or National ID) * Credit Card Numbers * Bank Account Numbers * Medical Records First Prize goes to the oldest incident found, and consists of: * A Mac Mini - Valued at $599.00 * $250.00 USD American Express Gift Card * Plus More... There are also second and third prizes, so please visit: http://datalossdb.org/oldest_incidents_contest If you have any questions about this contest that are not answered on the contest page or in this email, please contact curators at datalossdb.org With that said, please DO NOT REPLY DIRECTLY TO THIS EMAIL. Mail the curators@ address. All replies to this email or sent to the dataloss@ address will be rejected, quite possibly with a snarky comment, finger-pointing, and giggling. _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss at datalossdb.org) CREDANT Technologies, a leader in data security, offers advanced data encryption solutions. Protect sensitive data on desktops, laptops, smartphones and USB sticks transparently across your enterprise to ensure regulatory compliance. http://www.credant.com/stopdataloss From lyger at attrition.org Sun Apr 5 00:42:29 2009 From: lyger at attrition.org (lyger) Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 00:42:29 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [attrition] review: Movie: Twilight Message-ID: http://attrition.org/movies/twilight.html By Martums: Twilight is the motion picture based on the first book of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight Saga. Four books, with a stunning and tragically interrupted fifth, which have sold tens of millions of copies in over 20 languages. And that's just in New Jersey. The readers are loyal and enthusiastic beyond those of the Harry Potter series. If you're looking for an unbiased, fact-based review of the series, too bad. Shameless plug. Since 2005, fans have like, totally pined for a big screen retelling of the story of Bella and Edward. On 21 November 2008, their wishes were granted. Looking for a plot summary for Twilight? Just ask any 13 year-old girl. What the books lack, the film provides amply--visuals. The cast--finally, we can finally put a face, a person, clearly onto the characters. Especially the leads, Bella and Edward, and the actors do not disappoint. Music--the score is spot-on. (The soundtrack apparently sold ridiculously well). Bella's Lullaby might have missed the mark, but overall, the music is an excellent fit. The scenery--especially the trees, the colors and textures that make up Forks are rich and thick with life. The contrasts against Bella's former home in Arizona are apparent everywhere. Desert is replaced with the abundant green forest and overgrowth. The Phoenix suburbs, saturated with heat and sunlight, are replaced with a cold, wet, tiny town of 3,100 and perpetually-overcast skies. And misty cloud banks that dip low to surround the mountain tops. [...] From jericho at attrition.org Sat Apr 11 08:44:24 2009 From: jericho at attrition.org (security curmudgeon) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:44:24 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [attrition] Teabagging congress, Obama and more.. Message-ID: I don't watch TV much at all, let alone MSNBC. However, this spot with Rachel Maddox is hilarious. At first, I thought unintentionally so. By the 2 minute mark, she can barely contain herself. While I understand the message many want to send, there exists a point where one should consider the term you use for your movement, to ensure it doesn't overlap with a more popular meaning by the same name. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tea-Bag Definition #1. Read it, understand it, and then watch the Maddow segment: http://tvblips.dailyradar.com/video/msnbc_conservatives_go_teabagging_video/ From lyger at attrition.org Sat Apr 18 00:56:42 2009 From: lyger at attrition.org (lyger) Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:56:42 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [attrition] Attrition.org: We Twitter, Therefore We Suck Message-ID: http://attrition.org/news/content/09-04-17.001.html Attrition.org: We Twitter, Therefore We Suck Fri Apr 17 2009 19:17:42 Attrition Staff http://twitter.com/attritionorg Well, we finally caved in. It's true, and we admit it. Twitter is the "next big thing" (tm), so, as of right this minute, we're all over it like smegma on d2d's upper lip. We are going to fully embrace this most awesome technology, much as we did cascading style sheets, PHP, and Windows Vista many, many moons ago. We seriously want to be on the cutting edge of the internet without having to resort to foolish publicity stunts, and as far as we can tell, every other user on teh webz is doing it, so... here we are. Please realize that we aren't doing this just for ourselves. We're doing this for you, the faithful attrition reader who visits the site every other month (which used to be weekly until we stopped Data Loss, you jerks) to get a fill of yukks from the Going Postal section. We realize that in today's fast-moving world, people are really, REALLY busy and probably can't digest more than, like, 140 characters at a time, no matter how complex or important the message may actually be. It's a drain to have read and *think* through complex sentences, so we're completely changing our way of thinking. Therefore, we now Twitter. [...] From jericho at attrition.org Sat Apr 18 05:16:40 2009 From: jericho at attrition.org (security curmudgeon) Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:16:40 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [attrition] Attrition.org: We Twitter, Therefore We Suck In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: : http://attrition.org/news/content/09-04-17.001.html : : Attrition.org: We Twitter, Therefore We Suck : Fri Apr 17 2009 19:17:42 : Attrition Staff : : http://twitter.com/attritionorg : : Well, we finally caved in. It's true, and we admit it. Twitter is the : "next big thing" (tm), so, as of right this minute, we're all over it like Hours later, and I still don't get it. So there I am picking fights with random security industry twittertards, and I notice that 'cyberwar' (http://twitter.com/cyberwar) is following this PCI cheerleader (http://twitter.com/anton_chuvakin). I follow to cyberwar's feed, who has 3 twits total, and a shitload of followers. I follow another person off the cheerleader's list, and find a neat/useful twitter feed (http://twitter.com/XSSExploits) with lots of good content and .. three followers. For the most part, my limited experience so far has shown me that anything remotely useful or beneficial on twitter, is ignored. Instead, people favor insipid mouth breathers banging out a world of crap and linking to stupid things w/o explanation other than "DUR I LIK DIS". Heaven forbid you find a good feed with consolidated relevant information, run away! I have a feeling that most of these gimps just mindlessly type away, and don't even think about the crap they spew. Let alone have any passion to defend their position. Well, unless it's like Anton, since he conveniently leaves of his day job as Director of PCI Compliance Solutions at Qualys, all the while 'anonymously' cheering on PCI-DSS. Evangelists should be more subtle. - jericho From jericho at attrition.org Sat Apr 18 19:45:44 2009 From: jericho at attrition.org (security curmudgeon) Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:45:44 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [attrition] Attrition.org: We Twitter, Therefore We Suck In-Reply-To: <49EA2A38.1060409@dataoutages.com> References: <49EA2A38.1060409@dataoutages.com> Message-ID: actually, i have an idea for a contest via twitter that could result in that On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, audit wrote: : security curmudgeon wrote: : > BLABLABLABLA : > : > : > : Try offering us some free booze and see what happens assclown. : From lyger at attrition.org Wed Apr 22 06:01:50 2009 From: lyger at attrition.org (lyger) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:01:50 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [attrition] news: Open Security Foundation Wins the SC Magazine 2009 Editor's Choice Award Message-ID: http://attrition.org/news/content/09-04-22.001.html Thanks, everyone :) [..]