EasyIDS 0.4 released!

EasyIDS 0.4 released!

0.4 is now available for download. "This release includes many new web features and scripts to make management of your EasyIDS system even easier."

http://www.skynet-solutions.net/easyids/

California Accidentally Prints SSNs On Envelopes

California's Department of Health Care Services has apologized to nearly 50,000 Medi-Cal recipients whose Social Security numbers were disclosed on the outside of envelopes.

The department said Monday that it was immediately notifying the affected beneficiaries. It said their Social Security numbers were inadvertently included on mailing address labels created by a vendor.

Agency director David Maxwell-Jolly said the department is boosting its efforts to prevent such breaches in the future.

The Social Security numbers were included on letters mailed Feb. 1 to beneficiaries who receive adult day health care services.



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IPhone: Music control fuctions through headphones

When not on a call, if you click the iPhone’s headphone switch once, music will start playing without having to access the iPod features through the screen. The iPhone doesn’t even need to be unlocked for this to work.

*Tap the switch once again and the music will pause.

*Double-click the switch twice quickly and you will fast forward to the next song.

* Click 3 times and you jump back to the previous song

Subpoenaed a number of Online Retailers

New York State's Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, has subpoenaed a number of online retailers, including GameStop, Barnes & Noble, Ticketmaster and Staples, over the way they pass information to marketing firms while processing transactions. MSNBC explains the scenario thus: "You're on the site of a well-know retailer and you make a purchase. As soon as you complete the transaction a pop-up window appears. It offers a discount on your next purchase. Click on the ad and you are automatically redirected to another company's site where you are signed up for a buying club, travel club or credit card protection service. The yearly cost is usually $100 to $145. Here's where things really get smarmy. Even though you did not give that second company any account information, they will bill the credit or debit card number you used to make the original purchase. You didn't have to provide your account number because the 'trusted' retailer gave it to them for a cut of the action." While there is no law preventing this sort of behavior, Cuomo hopes the investigation will pressure these companies to change their ways, or at least inform customers when their information might be shared.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/02/05/0737210/GameStop-Other-Retailers-Subpoenaed-Over-Credit-Card-Information-Sharing?from=twitter

iPhone OS in this update Feb 2010

Several security issues are addressed for iPhone OS in this update. All of them are applicable to iPhone OS 1.0 through 3.1.2, and iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 3.1.2. The update will bring your device up to OS 3.1.3

Almost all of the issues addressed are serious - many of them are buffer overflow conditions allowing arbitrary code execution for common iPhone activities:

* watching a maliciously crafted MP4 video
* viewing a malicious TIFF graphic
* accessing a (again, maliciously crafted) FTP site.
* There's also a particularly nasty one that uses a memory corruption issue to bypass the iPhone password (via a crafted USB control message), allowing access to user data on the phone.

These are referenced as CVE-2010-0036, CVE-2009-2285, CVE-2010-0038, CVE-2009-3384 and CVE-2009-2841

These updates are available on iTunes - more information on the issues and update procedure can be found at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4013 , or the main security update site at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

The recommendation is to update your device to OS 3.1.3 as soon as possible.

http://isc.sans.org/

MAC Users: Info for Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard

General requirements

* Mac computer with an Intel processor
* 1GB of memory
* 5GB of available disk space
* DVD drive for installation
* Some features require a compatible Internet service provider; fees may apply.
* Some features require Apple’s MobileMe service; fees and terms apply.

Feature-specific requirements
Time Machine

requires an additional hard drive or Time Capsule (sold separately).
Photo Booth

requires an iSight camera (built in or external), USB video class (UVC) camera, or FireWire DV camcorder. Backdrop effects when using a DV camcorder require fixed focus, exposure, and white balance.
Boot Camp

requires Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista (sold separately).
Screen sharing

in iChat and the Finder requires a 128-Kbps Internet connection (300 Kbps recommended).
DVD Player

requires a 1.6GHz processor or faster for improved deinterlacing.
iChat

* Audio chats require a microphone and a 56-Kbps Internet connection.
* Video chats require an iSight camera (built in or external), USB video class (UVC) camera, or FireWire DV camcorder; and a 128-Kbps upstream and downstream Internet connection.
* Backdrop effects when using a DV camcorder require fixed focus, exposure, and white balance.
* Some iChat features offer better performance and quality with higher system capabilities. More details

Exchange Support

requires Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Update Rollup 4. Auto-setup requires enabling the Autodiscovery feature of Microsoft Exchange Server.
QuickTime X movie capture

requires iSight camera (built-in or external), USB video class (UVC) camera, or FireWire DV camcorder.
QuickTime H.264 hardware acceleration

requires a Mac with an NVIDIA 9400M graphics processor.
Developer tools

require 1GB of memory and an additional 3GB of available disk space.
OpenCL

requires one of the following graphics cards or graphics processors:

* NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 9600M GT, GeForce 8600M GT, GeForce GT 120, GeForce GT 130, GeForce GTX 285, GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GS, Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX5600
* ATI Radeon 4850, Radeon 4870

64-bit support

requires a Mac with a 64-bit processor.
Grand Central Dispatch

requires a Mac with a multicore processor.


More app description @ http://support.apple.com/kb/SP575