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On Being Informative, or Seeing Through The Fog

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2008-10-29 13:18:36 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
...contrast. Take a look at Nate Silvers work at http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/ . Now Ive been long familiar with Nate due to his work in baseball. Hes been at these sorts of predictive analytics around our shared passion: creating wisdom from baseball statistics What Nate is doing at 538 is applying that acumen from his baseball work to the...
 
Tags: gallup, gallup poll, information, visibility, electoral college split, predictive analytics provide, predictive analytics, electoral college, wisdom
 
 
 
 
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Benefit of Security and Privacy Collaboration

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2007-10-25 22:39:00 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...contrast, orgs that had poor collaboration were much more likely to experience loss or theft of personal information
 
Tags: security, collaboration, privacy research page, chart, research, chart leapt, microsoft security, rsa europe, poor collaboration
 
 
 
 
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July 2007 - Operating System Vulnerability Scorecard

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2007-08-16 22:47:26 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...contrast, the Windows Server build includes every shipping component including Internet Explorer, Media Player and similar stuff. I imagine that a lot of people would have expected a stripped-down Linux server to have, if not fewer total vulnerabilities, then fewer High severity vulnerabilities Finally, if I had one surprise in the charts, it...
 
Tags: server, linux server builds, server charts, charts, ytd charts, non-linux products, linux products, linux products comments, common server roles
 
 
 
 
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Blue Box podcast #70 successfully recorded... on *conference WiFi*!

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2007-11-07 21:52:46 by HASH0x84726ec in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
...contrast to the stats I showed yesterday , here's how our call looked today 0.0% packet loss on receiving Jonathan's signal! Very cool! And a 94ms round trip sure beats a 200-300ms round trip, eh To get this good quality on a conference WiFi really speaks to the efforts of the Interop NOC team to deliver this kind of network. Kudos to them...
 
Tags: conference wifi, audio quality, quality, interop, interop noc team, audio, blue box, 200-300ms round trip, jonathan
 
 
 
 
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Don't Try This At Home

2007-11-05 21:52:28 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...contrast, if Im designing a cryptosystem, I might not be able to break my own design. This is a common situation for amateur cryptographers. They build a system which they cant break, but when an expert looks at it, its no more reliable than a fish in a blender . Custom mitigations always result in a need for expert analysis, by someone who...
 
Tags: mitigations, custom mitigations, security mitigations, innovative mitigations, software projects, software, expert, design, design principles
 
 
 
 
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205 University of Wisconsin employees exposed

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2008-01-21 14:44:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...contrast to those disclosures, anyone looking for personal information would have had to find the DoIT Web site in question and then would have had to know that some campus ID numbers still use Social Security numbers Evan] It's not hard to find! www.doit.wisc.edu/ techstore.doit.wisc.edu/ . Security through obscurity DOES NOT work. Just...
 
Tags: information, personal information, information security vulnerabilities, social, include social security, security, identifiable information serves, information security personnel, computer shop
 
 
 
 
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Best practices - notification of a breach

2008-02-07 16:29:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...contrast two styles of letters to customers - interesting stuff. How does one provide details without overwhelming the reader who may not understand everything? Does one mention steps beign taken, other breaches in the industry I wonder how many folks within the company (as well as lawyers, PR folks) might be involved in this task? I assume...
 
Tags: folks, senior folks, breaches, mention steps beign, data breaches, cso magazine, company, provide details, breach
 
 
 
 
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NGO Security Scenario #21 - The Heat is On

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2008-03-02 18:30:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
...Contrast what you see in the video with the description of the actual incident. The U.S. Forest Service, and the wildland fire community in general, do an excellent job of post-incident analysis and making lessons learned widely known. The humanitarian community could learn a lot in developing similar practices for safety and security incidents
 
Tags: wildland fire community, wildland, wet bandanna, south america, pdf format, program manager, play button, humanitarian community, primary threats
 
 
 
 
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SQL Server - Fact Checking Recent Vulnerability History

2008-03-05 22:53:36 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
 
...contrast, I can briefly look at Oracle Critical Patch Updates (CPU) for 2007 Critical Patch Update - January 2007 17 db vulns, 13 for 10g Critical Patch Update - April 2007 16 db vulns, 13 for 10g Critical Patch Update - July 2007 18 db vulns, 16 for 10g Critical Patch Update - October 2007 30 db vulns, 16 for 10g So. One thing is clear from...
 
Tags: server, claim sql server, sql, sql server team, sql vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities, sql server, vulnerability, sql team