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Have Your Malware In a Timely Fashion

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2007-12-15 08:35:11 by HASH0x89f6724 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...criticism by human rights groups regarding Moammar Gadhafi's visit in France, in fact Human Rights Watch issued a press release entitled Al-Qadhafi in France . Despite the logical response in the form of criticism, it's lacking the long-term strategic vision and the proven approach of dealing with crying kids - pay them attention, give them a...
 
Tags: malware, attack, malware attack, malware downloaders, media malware gang, loads, web site, site, php
 
 
 
 
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After criticism, Sears plugs Web site's privacy hole

2008-01-04 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
Sears Holdings has taken part of its Managemyhome.com Web site offline following revelations that the site was making customers' purchasing histories publicly available
 
Tags: site, web site offline, histories publicly, sears holdings, revelations, customers, managemyhome
 
 
 
 
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Sears: Come see the softer side of spyware

2008-01-03 15:10:10 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
When you join an online "community," are you joining so that you can interact with like-minded users, or so that companies can track your every move on the Internet? Sears is banking on the latter, despite heavy criticism from security researchers
 
Tags: sears, heavy criticism, security researchers, internet, move, track, companies, users, online
 
 
 
 
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Steal this WiFi

2008-01-10 18:40:12 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Whenever I talk or write about my own security setup, the one thing that surprises people -- and attracts the most criticism -- is the fact that I run an open wireless network at home. There's no password. There's no encryption. Anyone with wireless capability who can see my network can use it to access the internet
 
Tags: network, wireless network, surprises people, security setup, wireless capability, internet, attracts, access, encryption
 
 
 
 
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My Open Wireless Network

2008-01-15 03:33:22 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...criticism -- is the fact that I run an open wireless network at home. There's no password. There's no encryption. Anyone with wireless capability who can see my network can use it to access the internet To me, it's basic politeness. Providing internet access to guests is kind of like providing heat and electricity, or a hot cup of tea. But to...
 
Tags: wireless network, network, fon wireless network, public, public network, computer, computer security, wireless security, wireless security protocol
 
 
 
 
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My Open Wireless Network

2008-01-15 03:33:22 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...criticism -- is the fact that I run an open wireless network at home. There's no password. There's no encryption. Anyone with wireless capability who can see my network can use it to access the internet To me, it's basic politeness. Providing internet access to guests is kind of like providing heat and electricity, or a hot cup of tea. But to...
 
Tags: wireless network, network, fon wireless network, public, public network, computer, computer security, wireless security, wireless security protocol
 
 
 
 
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Senate rejects amendment to strip immunity from telecom

2008-02-12 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday defeated an amendment that would take away legal immunity from telecommunications providers that helped the U.S. National Security Agency conduct surveillance on U.S. residents, earning criticism from two civil liberties groups
 
Tags: civil liberties, legal immunity, amendment, providers, criticism, residents, tuesday
 
 
 
 
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Ethical hacker group to counter 'black PR'

2008-03-27 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Amplifying their criticism of companies that work harder to squelch talk of vulnerabilities than they do to fix such things, the blogging researchers of GNU Citizen have announced plans to counter the crisis management mode they call "black PR
 
Tags: crisis management mode, squelch talk, black, counter, fix, researchers, companies, plans, harder
 
 
 
 
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On Time-Series Analysis with Strict Determinism

2008-03-30 03:24:06 by Greg Reemler in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...criticism of an SQL EPapproach only to have the same author counterthat post with, One down side to an SQL EPapproach Many technologists, including some of my team members at Techrotech,enjoy focusing onlinearevent processing problems with strict determinism, for example, processing a stream of market data and looking for opportunties to...
 
Tags: time, time-series analysis, cloudy event-causality relationships, event, complex event, complex, strict determinism, sql epapproach, sql
 
 
 
 
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The Checklist

2008-02-07 20:14:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...criticism of Spaf's piece, and I think the situation is quite similar to the one Pronovost finds in medicine For the most part we fail to treat the delivery/creation of software as a science. We do lots of research on languages, we do lots of work on theories of security, and then it all breaks down because we have people implementing the...