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NASDAQ Symbology Change

2007-12-14 03:18:47 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...changes at NASDAQ. For those of you who dont follow this kind of stuff, the old ticker symbols constituted a fairly small subset of possible combinations. The symbology change was designed to allow greater flexibility in the future of the naming conventions (think about it being like the difference between IPv4 and IPv6 in the stock market)....
 
Tags: symbology, symbology change, characters, legal characters, special characters, nasdaq, ticker symbols, stock market, millions
 
 
 
 
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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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"The Kite Runner" will change how you think about Afghanistan

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2008-04-29 11:16:44 by HASH0x8acb904 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...change my life. It is the Kite Runner , based on the book of the same title by Khaled Hosseini The movie tells the story of two boys growing up in pre-Soviet invasion Kabul, Afghanistan all the way up to the year 2000, with a pre-9/11 Taliban regime in charge. You can read the Wikipedia article I linked to or better yet go rent the movie or...
 
Tags: people, afghan people real, muslim world, world, afghanistan, movie tells, movie, kite runner, american view
 
 
 
 
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Nation's Spies Say Climate Change Could Spark War

2008-06-23 21:30:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
Environmental groups have been warning for years that global climate change could make already-tense parts of the world even worse, and even spark whole new conflicts. Now, in a classified national document, the nation's spies are saying pretty much the same thing
 
Tags: nation, change, spark, spies, national document, global, environmental, world, already-tense
 
 
 
 
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Lawmakers call on NebuAd to change privacy notification

2008-07-17 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
Several U.S. lawmakers called on behavioral advertising vendor NebuAd to change its privacy notification procedures so that customers have to opt in for the company to track their Web habits instead of opting out
 
Tags: privacy notification procedures, change, vendor nebuad, lawmakers, web habits, behavioral, track, opt, customers
 
 
 
 
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AIB technical problem discloses details of bank transfers

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2007-11-28 17:08:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...change to one or more internal systems, likely without thorough testing and/or validation Customers of the bank who either received or transferred an international payment between November 13th and 15th are affected by the error Those who received the notices were wrongly provided with details relating to someone else's transaction. As a...
 
Tags: bank, account, bank account details, aib bank, bank account, aib, details, wrong customers, customers
 
 
 
 
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SDL Training

2008-05-29 15:22:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...change agent Richard Derwent Cooke wrote , It is a first principle of Change Management that people will act in what they perceive as being their best interests At best, training can provide people with insight into what they need to do to solve a security problem if they believe that solving that security problem is in their best interests...
 
Tags: real behavior change, behavior, sdl, change peoples behavior, security, security guy, security defects, defects, security class
 
 
 
 
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Grayware?

2007-03-07 07:11:45 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...change system settings, but do no damage to the system. Examples include changing the system cursor or Windows' background image Peer-to-Peer: P2P grayware are applications that are installed to perform file exchanges. (P2P) While P2P is a legitimate protocol that can be used for business purposes, the grayware applications are often used to...
 
Tags: grayware, dangerous grayware applications, joke, joke grayware, p2p grayware, toolbar grayware applications, bho grayware applications, applications, toolbar
 
 
 
 
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We are the weakest link

2008-04-21 18:19:44 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...changed: you can change the firewall settings, you can change the locks, you can change process, you can change policy. What you cannot change is human nature. That's why there are still stories in the press (read here ) about people giving their passwords away in exchange for bars of chocolate. Bruce Schneier, on his blog , says that he is...
 
Tags: change, change process, security, physical security controls, change policy, security awareness, bruce schneier, people, human factors
 
 
 
 
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Changing the SSL cipher order in Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista

2007-11-07 05:37:47 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...change the default, you can. Here's how Open your group policy editor by entering gpedit.msc at a command prompt Choose Computer Configuration | Administrative Templates | Network | SSL Configuration Settings There's only one item here: SSL Cipher Suite Order . Open it Select Enabled Now here's where you need to tread carefully. You'll see...