{"id":197,"date":"2005-12-22T03:04:59","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T09:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=197"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-21T23:10:51","slug":"feel-safer-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/feel-safer-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Feel Safer Yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let me state the obvious: all humans are fallible; most human activities will <\/p>\n

involve mistakes. So, I pick these two incidents not because I feel holier than those who screwed up. What I do feel is frustration that <\/p>\n

we live in a country increasingly afraid of its own shadow and, at the same time, incapable of protecting anything. The highest standards <\/p>\n

set by Our Beloved Leader, The Great Protector, don’t seem to be trickling down very far. mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Physical Safety<\/strong><\/p>\n

ABQjournal: No Guards <\/p>\n

at Site of Explosives Theft<\/a> By T.J. Wilham. Journal Staff Writer<\/p>\n

No guards. No lights. No cameras. No alarms.<\/p>\n

A <\/p>\n

barbed-wire fence, a gate, a few warning signs and some locks are what guarded several hundred pounds of explosives, enough to blow up a <\/p>\n

large building.<\/p>\n

The security measures, which meet federal regulations, are what a thief faced sometime last week when the <\/p>\n

plastic explosives, 2,500 blasting caps and explosive detonator cords were stolen from a Bernalillo County storage depot.<\/p>\n

The <\/p>\n

explosives belonged to Cherry Engineering. The company is owned by Chris Cherry, one of the nation’s most respected bomb <\/p>\n

experts<\/strong> and a Sandia National Laboratories employee. …<\/p>\n

The site was broken into in 2003<\/strong>, when <\/p>\n

someone stole seven 50-pound bags of ammonium nitrate\u2014 the same material used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.<\/p>\n

[mjh: Interesting to note that the paper version of this article was more specific as to how much stuff was <\/p>\n

stolen and how the detonator cord could be used without explosives. I don’t know if the Journal just left that out because online <\/p>\n

articles don’t have to match originals or if they modified the info after someone complained — I hope it was not the latter.]<\/span><\/p>\n

Virtual Safety<\/strong><\/p>\n

Security Software Firm’s Customer Database Hacked<\/a> By Brian <\/p>\n

Krebs, Special to the Washington Post<\/p>\n

Guidance Software Inc. — a leading provider of software used to diagnose hacker break-ins <\/p>\n

— has itself been hacked, exposing financial and personal data connected to thousands of law enforcement officials and network-security <\/p>\n

professionals. …<\/p>\n

Hackers got access to company employees’ names, addresses, telephone numbers, credit card numbers, card <\/p>\n

expiration dates and the three-digit verification numbers on the backs of credit cards, according to Guidance. …<\/p>\n

Guidance’s <\/p>\n

EnCase software is used by hundreds of security researchers and law enforcement agencies worldwide, including the Secret Service, the FBI <\/p>\n

and New York City police. John Colbert, the company’s chief executive, said Secret Service and FBI customers were among those whose <\/p>\n

information was included in the hacked database, but he declined to say whether credit card information belonging to those agencies was <\/p>\n

compromised. …<\/p>\n

Guidance had stored customer records in unencrypted databases<\/strong> and indefinitely retained <\/p>\n

customers’ three-digit verification codes, according to Colbert and the notification letter sent to customers.<\/p>\n

Merchant <\/p>\n

guidelines published by both Visa and MasterCard require sellers to encrypt customer credit card databases and to discard verification <\/p>\n

numbers after using them in a transaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let me state the obvious: all humans are fallible; most human activities will involve mistakes. So, I pick these two incidents not because I feel holier than those who screwed up. What I do feel is frustration that we live in a country increasingly afraid of its own shadow and, at the same time, incapable … Continue reading Feel Safer Yet?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}