Energy giant confirms breach of customer project files

Computerworld Security: September 27, 2012
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Energy giant confirms breach of customer project files

Telvent, a Canadian energy firm whose systems are used to control more than half
of all oil and gas pipelines in North America and Latin America, confirmed a
security breach involving some of its customers' project files.
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IN THIS ISSUE

1. USSD attack hit SIM cards and Samsung Android devices
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2. Google patches 24 Chrome bugs, pays out $29K to bounty hunters
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3. INSIDER: Robert L. Mitchell: The paranoid user's guide to password protection: 10 steps to better security
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4. Researcher finds 100K passwords, user IDs, on IEEE site
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5. 5 (more) key cloud security issues
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USSD attack hit SIM cards and Samsung Android devices

A variation of the recently disclosed attack that can wipe data from Samsung
Android devices when visiting a malicious Web page can also be used to disable
the SIM cards from many Android phones, researchers say.
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Google patches 24 Chrome bugs, pays out $29K to bounty hunters

Google yesterday patched 24 vulnerabilities in Chrome, and paid out $29,500 in
bounties to nine researchers, more than half of that to one of the company's
most prolific bug finders.
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INSIDER: Robert L. Mitchell: The paranoid user's guide to password protection: 10 steps to better security


Yes, they are out to get you. Yes, they want your passwords. And if you're like
most folks out there, you've given them plenty of ways to take them from you. If
you're dead serious about securing your online life, here's 10 tips for locking
down and protecting your accounts. Insider (free registration required).
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Researcher finds 100K passwords, user IDs, on IEEE site

A Danish graduate student said he was searching for research material on an IEEE
FTP server last week when he stumbled upon the usernames and passwords of about
100,000 members of the professional association.
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5 (more) key cloud security issues

As we're adopting cloud computing, we're more aware of the security concerns it
raises than we were of issues created by other large-scale technologies we
adopted in the past. This is a wonderful thing! But security nirvana has yet not
been achieved. While there's still plenty of room for cloud providers to
improve, many aspects of cloud security must be the responsibility of the
consumer.
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