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Seat Belt Usage and Compensating Behavior

2008-04-11 13:44:59 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...behavior and traffic fatalities. Using a unique panel data set on seat belt usage in all U.S. jurisdictions, we analyze how such laws, by influencing seat belt use, affect the incidence of traffic fatalities. Allowing for the endogeneity of seat belt usage, we find that such usage decreases overall traffic fatalities. The magnitude of this...
 
Tags: seat belt, seat belt usage, laws, seat belt laws, fatalities, traffic fatalities, inherent risk thermostat, risk, indirect adverse effect
 
 
 
 
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Behavior-based malware detection software on the way

2008-03-05 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Start-up NovaShield says that in May it will release its first security product for the PC, behavior-based detection software designed to catch, quarantine and eradicate malware not ordinarily detected by signature-based antivirus products
 
Tags: detection software, start-up novashield, malware, antivirus products, security product, ordinarily, release, quarantine
 
 
 
 
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Quick and Fun Poll on Behavior Change

2008-03-24 13:53:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
While I am analyzing my previous poll, here is a quick and fun one: do we change our behavior when monitored ? Vote away About me: http://www.chuvakin.org
 
Tags: change, behavior, fun, previous poll, quick, org, vote, chuvakin
 
 
 
 
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Pentagon Wants Cyberwar Range to 'Replicate Human Behavior and Frailties'

2008-05-06 00:30:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
The Pentagon's way-out researchers don't just want to build an Internet simulator, to test out cyberwar tactics. They want the range's operators to "realistically replicate human behavior and frailties," too
 
Tags: human behavior, pentagon, frailties, range, cyberwar tactics, way-out researchers, internet simulator, test, operators
 
 
 
 
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Pentagon Wants Cyberwar Range to 'Replicate Human Behavior and Frailties'

2008-05-06 00:30:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
Congress orders Darpa, to put together a National Cyber Range, part of a massive, secret $30 billion government-wide effort prep for battle online. Contractors running the Range are supposed to be able to "replicate realistic human behavior on nodes
 
Tags: range, national cyber range, realistic human behavior, battle online, contractors, massive, congress, secret, nodes
 
 
 
 
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Driving employee behavior: Be sure to stay on the right road

2008-05-16 13:46:43 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
Driving employee behavior, the objective of a security awareness program, causing employees to
 
Tags: employee behavior, security awareness program, employees, objective
 
 
 
 
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SDL Training

2008-05-29 15:22:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...behavior (recall the original BillG TWC memo Where the environment reflects and supports the values presented in the training (apparent in everything Microsoft does Dont make the mistake of thinking that a bunch of training, even really high quality training done periodically, will result in actual behavior change. It wont. You have to build...
 
Tags: real behavior change, behavior, sdl, change peoples behavior, security, security guy, security defects, defects, security class
 
 
 
 
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DRM Scorecard Makes Me Wonder: The Media Industry and the TSA, Sadistic or Incompetent?

2007-08-02 08:19:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...behavior (media playback) without expecting someone else to utilize that decryption key for other behavior, such as making Fair Use backups or sharing it on a P2P network Encryption is defined as the science and study of secret writing. What is it that the media industry is trying to keep secret? While we may want I Now Pronounce You Chuck...
 
Tags: media industry, industry, media industry views, illogical behavior impedes, drm, behavior, drm scorecard, secret, secret internal referendum
 
 
 
 
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NGO Security Scenario #18 - High Seas Horror

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2008-02-11 02:43:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
...behavior during an unexpected and potentially life-threatening crisis. Which passenger showed a high level of survival instinct? How did the majority of passengers react? What does the behavior of the passengers playing slot machines in the upper right corner of the video suggest? Have you ever been in a crisis situation where you've...
 
Tags: video, security video footage, behavior, human behavior, crisis situation, similar behavior, ship, passengers, passengers react