Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Chinese Internet Restrictions and the Olympics
Totally unrelated to database security but I’ve read this interesting bit on /. while flying to the US. It got me thinking - how does China prevent people from going to restricted sites like blogger.com? Do Chinese ISPs use some form of IP filtering? Do they parse HTTP and prevent proxies? How about HTTPS? and [...]
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Sunday, September 9th, 2007
You Know Breaches Hit the Big Time When…
You know that data breaches have become part of big business reality when the Harvard Business Review publishes a hypothetical case study entitled “Boss, I Think Someone Stole Our Customer Data”. The case study does a very good job of illustrating the initial confusion and many gray areas that enterprises face when confronted with [...]
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Monday, May 7th, 2007
Breach at University of Western Florida: Are academic institutions sitting ducks?
While it’s not headline news yet (and may never achieve such lofty status), a recent database breach at UWF was exposed and later reported in local news. What exactly happened and how many records were compromised is, as usual in such cases, unknown.
This made me think: We hear of breaches at universities all too frequently. [...]