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U.K. companies offered 'password amnesty'

2008-10-10 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b61ee0 in Network World on Security
 
Authentication specialist Cryptocard is offering U.K. businesses the chance to test the company's remote access login service free-of-charge until year-end
 
 
 
 
 
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How to Sell Security

2008-05-26 05:57:29 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...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 difference: People make trade-offs based on a...
 
 
 
 
 
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Fuzz Testing at Microsoft and the Triage Process

2007-09-20 18:52:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...chance of having to look at duplicates during the triaging process. This was accomplished by creating unique bucket ids calculated from the stack trace using both symbols and offset when the information is available. The bucket id was used to name a folder that was created in the file system to refer to a unique application exception. When an...
 
 
 
 
 
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Security ROI

2008-09-02 06:05:53 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...chance the incident will occur in a year. That tells you how much you should spend to mitigate the risk. So, for example, if your store has a 10 percent chance of getting robbed and the cost of being robbed is $10,000, then you should spend $1,000 a year on security. Spend more than that, and you're wasting money. Spend less than that, and...
 
 
 
 
 
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DNA Matching and the Birthday Paradox

2008-09-11 06:21:02 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...chance of any two individuals matching at any one locus is 7.5 percent. In reality, the frequency of a match varies from locus to locus, but I think 7.5 percent is pretty reasonable. For instance, with a 7.5 percent chance of matching at each locus, the chance that any 2 random people would match at all 13 loci is about 1 in 400 trillion. If...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Austin Project

2008-01-21 22:45:39 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...chance to come ask me. Not that I will just be covering basics - oh no, why come to me for the basics? But this will be your chance to get me to slow down and explain things to you in a virtually one on one environment My goal isnt to get the best of the best and put them in a room together (although if I wind up with a bunch of people who...
 
 
 
 
 
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Do they have to grow up?

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2008-02-25 02:57:30 by HASH0x8abc9d0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...chance to pitch to at least two batters. The first two innings our best pitcher held the other team scoreless and we punched through a run in the 2nd to take the lead. However in the 3rd inning, he ran out of gas and our next two pitchers didn't do any better. Trailing 6 to 1, I decided to give the other kids a chance. 18 runs later (thats...
 
 
 
 
 
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Do they have to grow up?

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2008-02-25 03:55:18 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...chance to pitch to at least two batters. The first two innings our best pitcher held the other team scoreless and we punched through a run in the 2nd to take the lead. However in the 3rd inning, he ran out of gas and our next two pitchers didn't do any better. Trailing 6 to 1, I decided to give the other kids a chance. 18 runs later (thats...
 
 
 
 
 
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Do people still fall for spam?

2006-10-28 19:14:06 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...chance of this stock being traded. On days when spam messages were sent out urging people to buy the stock, the chance of the stocks being traded rose as high as 81%. The study also calculated the percentage that investors are losing. On average, investors who fall for the scam are losing 5.25% in the two day period following the stock...
 
 
 
 
 
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Diminutive XSS Worm Contest Drama and Status Update

2008-01-06 17:34:38 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...chance of that. However, the goal here is to understand why the propagation methods were chosen so we can build defenses against them. We actually had tons of interesting findings that will help us narrow down the most dangerous strains, and start making suggestions to browser companies and security companies that are in development of...