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Declassifying the DES Challenge Software

2007-02-14 00:00:00 by Burt Kaliski in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...Challenge in 1997. Rocke had asked participants in the distributed effort to keep his speedups secret for 10 years, due to potential proprietary applications of the software
 
Tags: des challenge, potential proprietary applications, rocke verser, solve rsa laboratories, rocke, exhaustive key, speedups secret, rsa conference, software
 
 
 
 
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The real security challenge

2008-03-19 00:00:00 by HASH0x847394c in Network World on Security
 
This recognition of the real security challenge was spectacularly highlighted recently by the incompetence of the U.K. government which managed to lose the contact and bank account details of 25 million recipients of child benefits. These were copied and unencrypted on to two CDs and sent through the internal mail from whence they disappeared
 
Tags: real security challenge, bank account details, child benefits, million recipients, internal mail, government, recently, contact, recognition
 
 
 
 
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Laptops 1, Hackers 0 as $20,000 prize goes unclaimed in hack challenge

2008-03-27 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The Pwn to Own hacker challenge ended its first day with a trio of laptops still up and running and $20,000 in prize money unclaimed
 
Tags: laptops, hacker challenge, pwn, day, money, trio
 
 
 
 
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Vista notebook falls in hacker challenge

2008-03-30 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
An Ubuntu Linux box was the last machine left standing in CanSecWest's PWN to OWN challenge , as Friday saw a successful hack on the Microsoft Vista box on the contest testbed. Shane Macauley picked up $5,000 for the successful hack
 
Tags: successful hack, microsoft vista box, ubuntu linux box, challenge, shane macauley, friday, pwn, machine
 
 
 
 
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Addressing the VM to VM Isolation Challenge

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2008-01-31 16:11:31 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...challenges that 99% of the vendors touting Virtual Security Appliances face today. A better way to do what is needed is to embed the security in the VM to VM communication path as highlighted in the next graphic But, its not all doom and gloom, I'm sure all 99% of the vendors out there know this is a challenge and are off working in their...
 
Tags: physical security product, security product, solutions, virtual security solutions, security, reflex security, virtual security appliances, isolation, security solution
 
 
 
 
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Virtual Security = Virtual Performance Challenge

2008-02-14 18:24:44 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
 
...challenge! If we put security, something that is heavily utilized into an environment that is intended for servers that were once under utilized we can cause a problem around why people virtualize in the first place. Catch 22 eh We need security but we don't want to pay for it. Isn't that always the issue Well, not exactly. The key thing to...
 
Tags: security, symantec security applications, network, network based security, security detail, reflex vsa product, reflex, perimeter security, security application
 
 
 
 
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Blackhat SEO Campaign at The Millennium Challenge Corporation

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2008-05-07 03:57:19 by HASH0x8ae4918 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Challenge Corporation ( mcc.gov ) - a United States Government corporation designed to work with some of the poorest countries in the world The injected pages are loading remote images from what looks like a secondary compromised site, in this case ttv-bit.nl which is a legitimate Dutch table tennis association. Compared to previous blackhat...
 
Tags: images, images ttv-bit, sites, page rank-ed sites, ttv-bit, spam pages, spam, campaign, pages
 
 
 
 
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Virtual Security = Virtual Performance Challenge

2008-02-14 18:24:44 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
 
...challenge! If we put security, something that is heavily utilized into an environment that is intended for servers that were once under utilized we can cause a problem around why people virtualize in the first place. Catch 22 eh We need security but we don't want to pay for it. Isn't that always the issue Well, not exactly. The key thing to...
 
Tags: security, symantec security applications, network, network based security, security detail, reflex vsa product, reflex, perimeter security, security application
 
 
 
 
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Getting into the Flow With Threat Modeling

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2007-10-11 23:25:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
...challenge Focused attention Lets take these one at a time Clear Goals Giving people clear goals is important because it helps take them from worrying about what your goals mean to worrying about how to achieve them. Without clear goals, its very challenging to get into the spirit of anything, whether playing a game or shipping an operating...
 
Tags: threat, people develop skills, people, challenge people, flow, sdl threat, entire threat model, threat model, guide people