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Who Moved My Bar Stool

2008-02-24 09:59:38 by mcurphey in Mark Curphey - SecurityBuddha.com
 
I love Who Moved My Cheese. Some manager gave it out when Schwab was doing a big round of lay-offs once. I just picked up a hilarious story about Bar Stool Economics that reminded me of the book and the importance to think through change and opportunity. Its a great five minute read and is
 
Tags: bar stool economics, moved, hilarious story, lay-offs, change, importance, opportunity, round, schwab
 
 
 
 
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Your Turn At The Bar Again? Security Costs in a Pay Per Drink Cloud

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2008-05-01 20:55:26 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
With in-house IT, you pay your upfront capital costs and maintenance fees and you get whatever compute power you paid for. If you over-specify, you have excess computer power or disk - you are wasting money. If you under-specify, you may be forced to raid your rainy day budget and order new hardware A primary selling point of Cloud Computing is...
 
Tags: security costs, costs, runtime security costs, security runtime costs, security, security tool, security tool inefficiency, security tools plays, plays
 
 
 
 
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Inside the Chinese Underground Economy

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2007-12-09 22:34:23 by HASH0x89e9090 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...bars which are all dedicated for the underground black market on this particular website. The post bars we examined include Traffic bar, Trojans bar, Web-based Trojans bar, Wangma bar (acronyms of Web-based Trojans inChinese), Box bar, Huigezi bar, Trojanized websites bar, and Envelopes bar What's the big picture on the Chinese IT...
 
Tags: chinese, chinese underground, underground, underground economy, chinese web, chinese red hackers, china, china eagle union, underground black market
 
 
 
 
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Opera Chickens Out Of EV-Purist Stance

2008-05-27 22:06:59 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...bar when *all* elements on the page were signed by an EV certificate. The more lenient standard enforced by IE and Firefox is to make it green when the top-level document is signed by an EV certificate, but other elements (like graphics) could be signed by lesser certificates. In either case, all elements need to be protected by modern SSL...
 
Tags: opera, bar, famously paypal, modern ssl standards, elements, paypal, ditch browsers, top-level document, browser race
 
 
 
 
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A New Generation of Tech in DC

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2008-07-18 21:24:20 by Rajiv Patnam in ScienceLogic
...bar, they chose to have the event at a trendy up-and-coming part of town in what can be best described as one of DCs hottest bars, Local 16. Not only that, because of the overwhelming response to attend, they had to rent out the bar next to it as well I expected that I would arrive and find the place mostly empty and have a few suits there...
 
Tags: technology, technology company names, bar, atmosphere, overflow bar, ideas people, ideas, fun laid-back atmosphere, fun
 
 
 
 
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She could totally be mine...

2007-12-18 00:00:00 by Uriel Maimon in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...bar. My friend was completely ignoring me (a rather stimulating treatise on how my failure with women is caused by millions of years of human evolution. I've entitled this thesis "Nature or nurture, culture or genes: Pick any one -- or all of the above"), and was focusing on a girl on the other side of the bar She could be your daughter," I...
 
Tags: friend, human evolution, bar, mine, completely, thesis, daughter, girl, nurture
 
 
 
 
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NGO Security Scenario #25: One Day in April

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2008-04-01 15:10:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
...bar in the capital city of a country that's been plagued by unrest. There have been several attacks on foreigners and last week an American-owned hotel was bombed. The crowd around you seems anxious for some reason. As you sip a beer, the bar suddenly plunges into darkness. As you reach into your pocket for a small flashlight you hear a...
 
Tags: bar suddenly plunges, familiar sound, play button, capital city, karaoke bar, reach, attacks, pocket, comments
 
 
 
 
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Giving Up Passwords for Chocolate

2008-04-21 12:22:08 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
I am just sick of this story : people are willing to reveal their passwords for a bar of chocolate I haven't seen any indication they actually verified that the passwords are real. I would certainly give up a fake password for a bar of chocolate
 
Tags: passwords, bar, fake password, people, reveal, story, indication, sick, real
 
 
 
 
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Taming of the Information Security

2008-07-09 06:33:00 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...bar on security because of the very nature of their business and their exposure legal liability. It is a good idea for many technology companies to emulate financial institutions to raise their information security bar It could be a pipedream to accomplish complete information security but accomplishing a well managed information security...
 
Tags: information security, information security field, information security bar, information security program, security, information security technology, poor security decisions, information security grows, companys security initiative
 
 
 
 
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My excellent adventure at Black Hat

2008-08-07 11:52:20 by HASH0x8b31f6c in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Bar (I love that place, but it was too hot last night). We than went over to the Fuente cigar bar and next thing you know we were joined by about 30 of our closest security blogger buddies. It was a great time and their are pictures floating around twitter somewhere