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Please close me so I can continue

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2007-12-09 10:41:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
This morning I was installing the recently released .NET 3.5 redistributable on a machine and had to laugh when it showed me this. Note the title bar - the application is literally asking me to close it so it can continue. FWIW, pressing ignore seemed to make it happy
 
Tags: close, continue, title bar, recently, application, ignore, net, note, redistributable
 
 
 
 
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America's Dilemma: Close Security Holes, or Exploit Them Ourselves

2008-05-01 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...close the same vulnerabilities to protect our stuff In the 1980s and before, the tendency of the NSA was to keep vulnerabilities to themselves. In the 1990s, the tide shifted, and the NSA was starting to open up and help us all improve our security defense. But after the attacks of 9/11, the NSA shifted back to the attack: vulnerabilities...
 
Tags: security, bad guys insecure, guys, non-security, security improves, technologies, dual-use technologies, security improvements, agency
 
 
 
 
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Your Turn At The Bar Again? Security Costs in a Pay Per Drink Cloud

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2008-05-01 20:55:26 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
...closer to home, lets explore how the impact of security tools plays out today under traditional IT and tomorrow, under Cloud Computing. Lets eavesdrop on a fictitious conversation between Oscar the ORACLE DBA and Simon the Security Dude Oscar : Hey Simon, your Security Agents are killing system performance again. Anna in accounts called up to...
 
Tags: security costs, costs, runtime security costs, security runtime costs, security, security tool, security tool inefficiency, security tools plays, plays
 
 
 
 
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Notes from IEEE Web 2.0 Security and Privacy Workshop (W2SP2008)

2008-05-27 22:45:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...close they got to ideal on the sandboxing side of things That said, I think our biggest problem in browser security isn't the implementation and internal segmentation. Our biggest problem is that we don't have any idea what security policies we really want to implement. Sure, having a flexible architecture under the hood makes it easier to...
 
Tags: browser, browser security models, browser project, browser security model, security models, browser security, security, web, security challenges
 
 
 
 
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More trustworthy election systems via SDL?

2008-02-04 23:34:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...close results, where the winners margin of victory was perhaps smaller than the election systems margin of error. The term Hanging Chads , from the 2000 U.S Presidential election , is now part of the American vocabulary, and locally here in Washington State our last gubernatorial election in 2004 required 3 recounts with the final winner...
 
Tags: machine security concerns, security concerns, election systems, election, security, security researchers, election systems margin, margin, election management system
 
 
 
 
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Canadian Standards Association Learning Centre compromised

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2008-02-10 19:14:30 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...close their relevant credit card accounts, and provided information on preventing and detecting credit card fraud Contact your credit card company, notify them of this breach, and request that they monitor suspicious charges on your credit card in the future, or close the account and open a new one. If you open a new account, ask the credit...
 
Tags: breach description, breach, credit card, credit card issuer, security breach, encryption, secret key encryption, credit card company, security
 
 
 
 
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Thoughts on Super Tuesday

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2008-02-06 06:44:05 by HASH0x8bc5b54 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...close races this late in the season. Without letting my own political beliefs get in the way here is my analysis 1. The Republicans - They are in a fight for the soul of this party. Though all three leading candidates claim the title of heir to the Regan revolution, in my mind it is a bit different. Mike Huckabee, clearly is the choice of...
 
Tags: vote republican, vote, republican, republican presidential majority, traditional republican argument, traditional republican, super tuesday, vote primarily, party
 
 
 
 
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Thoughts on Super Tuesday

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2008-02-06 00:59:36 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...close races this late in the season. Without letting my own political beliefs get in the way here is my analysis 1. The Republicans - They are in a fight for the soul of this party. Though all three leading candidates claim the title of heir to the Regan revolution, in my mind it is a bit different. Mike Huckabee, clearly is the choice of...
 
Tags: vote republican, vote, republican, republican presidential majority, traditional republican argument, traditional republican, super tuesday, vote primarily, party
 
 
 
 
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SQL Server - Fact Checking Recent Vulnerability History

2008-03-05 22:53:36 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
 
...closed since July 2003 (only 3 in the 4.5 years). It turns out only one of them may be attributed to SQL and even then, it is a client side control CVE-2004-1560. This one was disclosed in Sep-04 and only affected SQL Server 7 CVE-2007-5090. This one was disclosed in Sep-07 and is actually a vulnerability in IBM Rational ClearQuest...
 
Tags: server, claim sql server, sql, sql server team, sql vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities, sql server, vulnerability, sql team