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Do ISPs pose a bigger online privacy threat than Google?

2008-09-15 07:39:44 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A research paper published by a university professor claims that ISPs could pose a bigger threat to online privacy than Google and other online advertisers do
 
Tags: online privacy, university professor claims, google, isps, bigger threat, research paper, pose, online advertisers
 
 
 
 
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A Quote From Bill Gates

2008-01-07 07:13:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
...bigger picture here. I was involved once in a project which developed a security tool. I saw the bigger picture of how this tool would fit into an organisation but was shot down by everyone in the company from the CEO down because they had a different view. They were too caught up with the technology and didn't see the problem they were...
 
Tags: information security companies, companies, information, bill, complexity blocks, information security department, complexity, bigger picture, total linux penguin
 
 
 
 
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Why even having health insurance is not enough anymore

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2008-05-04 15:13:07 by HASH0x8b625c8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...bigger and bigger. Plus the insurance company covers less and less. This squeeze is frankly baffling. How can you pay more and get less 3. I had a dental implant a few months back. Though we pay for dental coverage, our insurance would cover a bridge or cap, but they don't consider implants necessary and would not cover any of it. I had to...
 
Tags: insurance, health insurance, premiums, employees insurance premiums, insurance company pays, regular insurance, insurance company, care, health care system
 
 
 
 
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Security Evolution

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2008-05-19 17:42:16 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
...bigger budget, but come on infosec - show some pride Infosec types like to throw developers under the bus for security issues, but its a collective failure. Sure developers need to learn more about secure coding, but as the table above shows - security is not keeping pace, and the gap is getting bigger Here is another dimension to the problem...
 
Tags: security, information security, faith based security, security issues asp, asp, security issues, security architecture, ws-security, security architectures
 
 
 
 
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Dan Geer on Security, Monoculture, Metrics, Evolution, Etc.

2008-05-27 06:23:23 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...bigger, more metaphysical question than the ones I have so far posed. That I can pose many others is of no consequence; either you are sick of them by now or you are scribbling down your own as I speak. The bigger question is this -- how much security do we want A world without failure is a world without freedom. A world without the...
 
Tags: world, security, dan geer, security geeks, bigger, bigger question, possibility, l0pht reunion, metaphysical question
 
 
 
 
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The Economics of Finding and Fixing Vulnerabilities in Distributed Systems

2008-11-18 22:47:55 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...bigger than the entire software security space, in what alternate universe does this make sense This is where we begin to see that decisions in the People's Republic of Information Security have no real risk management thinking, they truly are swimming naked and hoping the tide doesn't go out Let's look at network assets. Obviously Cisco is...
 
Tags: information security, information, information security spends, safety information security, versus information security, information security budgets, information security budget, software security, software security space
 
 
 
 
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Speaking of Security Podcast #70

2007-07-30 00:00:00 by Podcast Producers in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
Click here to listen/download (10:15 October's RSA Conference Europe promises to be bigger and better than ever! In this podcast we talk with two of the conference's movers and shakers from RSA's U.K. headquarters. And we also welcome our newest Speaking of Security Blogger, Sean Kline , and learn some of his thoughts for the RSA blog and what...
 
Tags: rsa blog, rsa, sean kline, security blogger, security topics, podcast, october, listendownload, bigger
 
 
 
 
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Fierce 1.0

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2007-12-20 16:39:32 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
...bigger projects, etc Lots to do! Its a nice release, given that its been in beta for a year through countless sub revisions as we worked a lot of the production kinks out In other news, Fierce will be part of Backtrack 3.0 . No word on when Backtrack 3 will be made production but you can download the beta now. So for those pen testers out...
 
Tags: fierce, fool fierce, production kinks, zone transfer, backtrack, production, dictionary, corp, kinks
 
 
 
 
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Passenger Says He Hacked Windows In New York Taxi Display Screen

2007-12-28 14:02:19 by Editor in Security Links
 
...bigger problem than GPS tracking, he said. Youre essentially giving strangers access to a computer that is shared with hundreds of customers Chasen went on to say that he could have installed software from the Internet The VeriFone spokesman, however, said Chasen had merely accessed media files, and passengers could not gain control of...
 
Tags: display, display systems vendor, display systems, credit card, card, sensitive information, information, display system, credit card information
 
 
 
 
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Zune and iPod Size Comparison

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2007-10-03 22:46:00 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...bigger screen on the Zune 8 and imagine that integration with my Media Center is going to be nice for portable TV shows I think I know what I'm getting for Christmas