Obama administration supports new cybersecurity bill

Computerworld Security: July 27, 2012
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Obama administration supports new cybersecurity bill

The Obama administration "strongly supports" a new cybersecurity bill scheduled
to be debated on the Senate floor soon, even though some of its provisions are
watered down from earlier legislation, the White House Office of Management and
Budget said.
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IN THIS ISSUE

1. Global Payments: data breach cost a whopping $84.4 million
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2. Black Hat: Shark-bitten security researcher takes another chomp out of Oracle database
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3. Researcher wows Black Hat with NFC-based smartphone hacking demo
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4. Black Hat panel: Which do you trust less with your data, the U.S. government or Google?
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Global Payments: data breach cost a whopping $84.4 million

Global Payments, which back in the spring reported a data breach in which
information associated with an estimated 1.4 million payment cards was stolen,
has revealed that expenses associated with investigations, fines and remediation
has hit $84.4 million.
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Black Hat: Shark-bitten security researcher takes another chomp out of Oracle database

A researcher scored again against Oracle's database by demonstrating at the
Black Hat security conference Thursday an exploit that would allow him to take
control as an administrator.
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Researcher wows Black Hat with NFC-based smartphone hacking demo

At the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas Wednesday, Accuvant Labs researcher
Charlie Miller showed how he figured out a way to break into both the
Google/Samsung Nexus S and Nokia N9 by means of the Near Field Communication
(NFC) capability in the smartphones.
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Black Hat panel: Which do you trust less with your data, the U.S. government or Google?

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Black Hat Conference here, a panel of
experts got together to expound on what they see as the privacy and security
mess of our times, and they had plenty to say about the U.S. government,
cyberwar and Google.
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