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	<title>Robert Vamosi</title>
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	<description>Computer Security Writer</description>
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		<title>The Best Hacking Film You Haven&#8217;t Seen (Yet)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When was the last time you saw a good documentary about the origins of computer hacking? Well, Code 2600, a new documentary film from a young filmmaker named Jeremy Zerechak comes really close to being both accurate and entertaining while at the same time scaring the pants off anyone who doesn&#8217;t yet know that computer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertvamosi.com/?p=135</link>
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		<title>Cisco VoIP Phones Affected By On Hook Security Vulnerability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the new motion picture Skyfall, James Bond uses fewer gadgets than in previous films, but a future 007 might not have to rely upon Q at all, instead taking advantage of ordinary gadgets, according to one researcher. On Wednesday at the Amphion Forum in San Francisco researcher Ang Cui demonstrated an attack on common [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertvamosi.com/?p=136</link>
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		<title>Why Verizon Has Its Own HAZMAT Team</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the hills of near Cockeysville, MD, various teams of emergency responders were communicating through a central incident command system after a truck carrying chlorine collided with a train near a telecommunications facility. Although the emergency the first week in April was simulated, men and women in grade B Hazmat suits were nonetheless struggling to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertvamosi.com/?p=118</link>
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		<title>Debix: Ten Percent of Children Are Victims of Identity Theft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the first report of its kind, Debix, an identity protection services company, found the identity theft victimization rate among children was 10 percent last year, or fifty-one times the .2 percent of identity theft within the adult population.
The report, Child Identity Theft: New Evidence Indicates Identity Thieves are Targeting Children for Unused Social Security [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertvamosi.com/?p=116</link>
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		<title>Security in DNS Left Out On Purpose, Says Creator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you type in Forbes.com (and not a string of hard to remember numbers) you can thank Paul Mockapetris, one of the creators of Domain Name System (DNS). DNS is fundamental to the Internet, instantly translating the common name to the machine address without the user being aware. Now, after 40 years, DNS is about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertvamosi.com/?p=103</link>
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		<title>Why Cybersecurity Should Focus on Failure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When a computer crashes, our instinct is to reboot and not to question its root cause. But perhaps we should try to understand our failures before trying to forget them.  Paul Kocher, president and chief scientist, of Cryptography Research, Inc. in San Francisco thinks that computer security industry’s understanding of failure is still in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertvamosi.com/?p=96</link>
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		<title>Cybercriminals phone it in</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The mobile phone provides additional customer security for financial transactions. Either by voice or text, banks–in real time–may question account holders about large transfers of funds, potentially stopping fraud in process. While attending a recent public-private summit for the financial services industry, however, I heard of several ways that criminals are using the financial services’ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertvamosi.com/?p=64</link>
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		<title>The Dangers in Following the Crowd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Benjamin Jun received a winter catalog in the mail from Nike with a personal URL on the cover, he didn’t realize the wealth of information that would soon be available to him online. Jun, Vice President of technology at Cryptography Research, said that once online he was able to access a database showing what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertvamosi.com/?p=63</link>
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		<title>Be Careful Who You Know</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beyond date of birth, what other personal information are we giving away on social network sites? In a talk a few weeks ago at the 2010 RSA Conference, security researcher Nitesh Dhanjani explored some non-traditional ways social networking could be used to profile individuals. He says just by studying your social networking presence one can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertvamosi.com/?p=62</link>
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		<title>Device Fingerprinting to Fight Real-time Transaction Fraud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday ThreatMetrix unveiled its new cloud-based transactional fraud network. Using its global database of device fingerprints—unique details about the PC, mobile phone or other Internet connecting device–the company says it can detect fraudulent transactions without the need for acquiring personally identifiable information.  By correlating incoming TCP/IP information with its database, for example, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://robertvamosi.com/?p=61</link>
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