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The reason behind the "We're sorry..." message

2007-07-09 11:54:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...Adversaries can then remotely control the compromised web servers and use them for DDoS attacks, spam or phishing. Over time, the adversaries have realized that even though a botnet consisting of web servers provides a lot of aggregate bandwidth, they can increase leverage by changing the content on the compromised web servers to infect...
 
Tags: web servers, vulnerable web servers, message, google, worms, google displays, worms pdf, queries, detect anomalous queries
 
 
 
 
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Combating Unrestricted Warfare

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2007-12-15 09:08:23 by HASH0x8472308 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...adversaries. They do whatever it takes to win. Good adversaries know our strengths and weaknesses. They develop surprising partners that sometimes do not even know they are partnersthey will give someone an honorarium to talk at a conference and ask that person for information on associates. They play by a different set of rules. They see...
 
Tags: chinese information warfare, information, information warfare, warfare, cyber warfare unit, cyber warfare, asymmetric warfare, unconventional warfare, warfare employs surprise
 
 
 
 
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NSA Monitoring U.S. Government Internet Traffic

2008-02-04 06:30:10 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...adversaries and other intruders. It will cost billions of dollars, which the White House is expected to request in its fiscal 2009 budget Under the initiative, the NSA, CIA and the FBI's Cyber Division will investigate intrusions by monitoring Internet activity and, in some cases, capturing data for analysis, sources said The Pentagon can...
 
Tags: government, nsa, detect attacks, attacks, domestic government traffic, plan attacks, white house officials, white house, data
 
 
 
 
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Show 005 - An Interview with Ed Felten

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2006-08-28 18:05:36 by rmacmich in The Silver Bullet Security Podcast
...adversaries. They also talk about how to discuss difficult technology issues with lawmakers and the importance of public policy and the law to computer scientists. Ed also outlines the challenges of raising a bright 11-year-old A partial transcript of the interview in IEEE Security & Privacy Freedom to Tinker - Ed Feltens blog Eds Predictions...
 
Tags: eds predictions, ieee security, discuss eds relationship, information technology policy, bright 11-year-old, feltens blog, privacy, computer scientists, public policy
 
 
 
 
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To Catch a Phish: Practice, Practice, Practice

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2008-02-14 18:31:00 by Mike Rothman in Security Mike's Blog
...adversaries are very good. Very very good. They are experts at deception and intrigue. They make a living (and a very good living at that) from separating you from your personal information. They prey on your gullability and trusting nature I don't advocate that you become a full on paranoid like me. Everytime I get a strange email that...
 
Tags: security mike content, security mike, bad guys, email, guys, security research friends, strange email, techniques, fraud techniques
 
 
 
 
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Laptop encryption

2008-05-09 05:00:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...adversaries, operating for profit, then is your personal safety worth holding out on the password to your laptop? In my mind, a much better solution is to keep confidential data off mobile devices in the first place. But let's come back to the original point and question: How much confidential business data has been compromised over the years...
 
Tags: personal data, data, confidential data, laptop, encryption, confidential business data, confidential, laptop thefts, encryption product
 
 
 
 
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Air Force Aims for 'Full Control' of 'Any and All' Computers

2008-05-13 20:00:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
The Air Force wants a suite of hacker tools, to give it "access" to -- and "full control" of -- any kind of computer there is. And once the info warriors are in, the Air Force wants them to keep tabs on their "adversaries' information infrastructure completely undetected
 
Tags: air force, information infrastructure completely, info warriors, hacker tools, control, tabs, adversaries, access, suite
 
 
 
 
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Air Force Aims for 'Full Control' of 'Any and All' Computers

2008-05-14 20:10:50 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
The Air Force wants a suite of hacker tools, to give it "access" to--and "full control" of--any kind of computer there is. And once the info warriors are in, the Air Force wants them to keep tabs on their "adversaries' information infrastructure completely undetected." The government is growing increasingly interested in waging war online
 
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Top Pentagon Scientists Fear Brain-Modified Foes

2008-06-09 19:30:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
The Pentagon's most-prestigious scientific advisory panel is spooked about "enemy activities in sleep research," neuro-pharmaceutical performance enhancement, "brain-computer interfaces," and other ways adversaries could "exploit advances in Human Performance Modification, and thus create a threat to national security
 
Tags: scientific advisory panel, human performance modification, pentagon, brain-computer interfaces, national security, exploit advances, performance enhancement, enemy activities, threat