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How to Sell Security

2008-05-26 05:57:29 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...alternatives: a sure gain of $500 and 50 percent chance of gaining $1,000. Ask the other group to choose between these two alternatives: a sure loss of $500 and a 50 percent chance of losing $1,000 These two trade-offs are very similar, and traditional economics predicts that the whether you're contemplating a gain or a loss doesn't make a...
 
Tags: security, loss, risky loss, risky larger loss, gain, risky larger gain, security purchase, directly, security directly
 
 
 
 
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Security Matters: The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-02 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...alternatives, like free elections Historically, none of these solutions has worked with any regularity. Max Abrahms, a predoctoral fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation, has studied dozens of terrorist groups from all over the world. He argues that the model is wrong. In a paper (.pdf) published...
 
Tags: ineffective, highly ineffective terrorists, terrorists, people join, people join hamas, people join al-qaida, terrorist organizations, organizations, al-qaida
 
 
 
 
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Some Yahoo! employees exposed through mistaken email

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2007-12-12 15:11:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...alternatives, one of which is encrypted email Past Breaches Unknown at Fidelity Investments or Yahoo Muliple for other Fidelity organizations
 
Tags: fidelity investments, fidelity, fidelity inadvertently, fidelity investments client, email, fidelity investments inadvertently, yahoo, administrator, email administrator
 
 
 
 
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Two-factor authentication: Hot technology for 2008

2008-01-14 00:00:00 by Neal Weinberg in Network World on Security
 
Weve known for a long time that requiring just a user name and password to get on the network or to access personal information on a Web site isn't the tightest security posture, but there weren't a lot of good alternatives, and there wasn't that much pressure to change
 
Tags: access personal information, web site, security posture, alternatives, pressure, lot, network, change, time
 
 
 
 
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Quality and Assurance in Malware Attacks

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2008-04-02 11:49:20 by HASH0x8b57b3c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...alternatives for internal Q&A purposes. But now that each and every possible service that comes with the malware product is starting to get commercialized, it is logical to question how would quality and assurance obsessed malware authors disintermediate the intermediary to actually break-even out of their investment in a malware campaign?...
 
Tags: malware authors start, malware authors, malware, authors, services, malware services, start, malware product, malware campaign
 
 
 
 
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Secure Email from Voltage

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2008-04-01 17:39:00 by Random InfoSec Guy in Security Coin
...alternatives present in the industry for secure encrypted email communication. It is supposed to have incorporated strong anti-phishing technology within it. Could very well be, but there is a huge problem with the whole concept. You see, the way it is supposed to work is 1. I type an email - and then choose to encrypt via voltage and send ...
 
Tags: email, voltage, email-address, email communication, voltage offers, html attachment, attachment, click, secure
 
 
 
 
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Positive Approach to Security Requests

2008-04-14 11:00:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...alternatives proposed, and quick action is taken will win you respect and keep the wheels of the business turning
 
Tags: business, business carte blanche, risk, risk manager, business teams, approach, risk-conscious culture, information security policies, research note
 
 
 
 
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Free or Paid protection? The battle rages.

2008-04-17 17:01:42 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...Alternatives Its that time of year again when your Norton or McAfee Antivirus subscription has expired. Windows starts to generate alerts warning that you arent protected from viruses. The world is coming to an end! Well, not quite. But arent you sick of upgrading your Antivirus software every year? I know I would be! Fortunately, I know of...
 
Tags: mcafee antivirus subscription, free antivirus, windows starts, antivirus software, alternatives, alerts, brennanhm, time, world
 
 
 
 
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Eye-Fi Adds Geotagging, Splits Up Product Line

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2008-05-09 14:07:15 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...alternatives doesn't appeal to mainstream users Sony once sold this wacky GPS companion (which I just found out isn't available in either released model) that would track your location over time, and use that information to geotag images via a special software program that let you pair its stream of data with your photographs Eye-Fi and...
 
Tags: eye-fi, wi-fi, simple wi-fi, wi-fi networks, eye-fi ties, eye-fi home, eye-fi handles, wi-fi environment, eye-fi explore
 
 
 
 
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The FirePack Exploitation Kit Localized to Chinese

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2008-05-13 08:28:54 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge