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A Commercial Web Site Defacement Tool

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2008-04-01 06:25:00 by HASH0x8b4eee4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...commercialize what was once a tax free area. Commercial click fraud tools , managed spamming services and fast-fluxing on demand , botnets and DDoS attacks as a service , malware pitched as a remote access tool with limited functionality to prompt the user to buy the full version, malware crypting as a service, and the very latest indication...
 
Tags: malware, malware attack, approaches, defacers, creative approaches, site, entire defacers community, defacers deface, deface
 
 
 
 
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Israel Implementing IFF System for Commercial Aircraft

2008-03-10 12:24:29 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...commercial aircraft, designed to differentiate legitimate planes from terrorist-controlled planes The news article implies that it's a basic challenge-and-response system. Ground control issues some kind of alphanumeric challenge to the plane. The pilot types the challenge into some hand-held computer device, and reads back the reply....
 
Tags: commercial aircraft, system, hand-held computer device, device, pin, special distress pin, ground control issues, challenge, news article implies
 
 
 
 
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Anti-Missile Technology on Commercial Aircraft

2008-01-18 11:29:06 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...commercial planes from attack The technology is intended to stop a missile attack by detecting heat given off from the rocket, then firing a laser beam that jams the missile's guidance system I have several feelings about this. One, it's security theater against a movie-plot threat. Two, given that that's true, attaching an empty box to the...
 
Tags: missile, anti-missile technology, technology, missile attack, laser anti-missile system, attack, american airlines jets, protect commercial planes, laser beam
 
 
 
 
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US Government planning to spend 10% of its IT budget on cyber-security by 2009.

2008-02-25 13:59:58 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...commercial sector across North America and Europe. As many of us have seen stagnation in our security budgets, the US government has increased its cyber-security budget by a whopping 73% since 2004. The media has picked up on things such as DOT (Department of Transportation) more than doubling its budget while DHS (Department of Homeland...
 
Tags: cyber-security, budget, cyber-security budget, security, government, measure security, security budgets, mature security postures, government infrastructure
 
 
 
 
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SQL Server - Fact Checking Recent Vulnerability History

2008-03-05 22:53:36 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
 
...commercial database..." That is a big error, though it may be a misquote or a miscommunication. Certainly, if you go look at the current version of the original article , the incorrect statement has been removed However, given that as of today, some versions of the article containing the original (incorrect) quote are still available, I...
 
Tags: server, claim sql server, sql, sql server team, sql vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities, sql server, vulnerability, sql team
 
 
 
 
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Money for nothin, code for free - if you don't own the copyright you could be in Dire Straits

2008-03-19 01:45:00 by HASH0x8aede64 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...commercial customers. Our core software is open-source, full-featured, and free Period Untangle optionally packages its software on Pentium-based server appliances We sell these servers at cost-plus, and so this is deliberately positioned as a convenience to our customers and channel and not as a core money-making strategy Untangle sells tech...
 
Tags: software untangle, software, core software, source security software, commercial, commercial product, source, source code, larger commercial customers
 
 
 
 
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Citizens Advice stolen laptop was encrypted

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2007-12-13 13:37:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...commercial solution such as Utimaco or Pointsec. Kudos to Citizens Advice for their proactive decision to encrypt sensitive data on a laptop Good commercial versions of "whole disk" laptop encryption software will protect against slaving the hard drive to another computer (thus bypassing password protection) and provide a replacement logon...
 
Tags: laptop encryption, laptop encryption software, advice, encryption, encryption product, citizens advice, laptop, sought advice, personal data
 
 
 
 
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Larry Sutos Paper Drama

2008-01-02 14:53:30 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...commercial scanners I have access to (most companies I deal with dont want me to discuss my relationship with them for whatever reason - fair enough). Tin foil hat wearers beware - there is more to me than one or two scanners, and I would hope after the ungodly amount of times Ive talked about it people would understand that Im not really all...
 
Tags: paper, larry sutos paper, scanners, commercial scanners, test environment, environment, test, time, people
 
 
 
 
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Common Criteria and answering the question 'Is it Safe'

2007-12-20 16:57:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...commercial acceptance, and so I thought Id share some of those thoughts here. Currently, Common Criteria fails to meet customer needs as a useful indicator of the likelihood of security vulnerabilities in software At a very fundamental level, when someone in either the private sector or from a government agency considers purchasing or using...
 
Tags: criteria, fails, common criteria fails, common criteria, common criteria arguably, common, arguably, arguably deficient, security