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Quality and Assurance in Malware Attacks

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2008-04-02 11:49:20 by HASH0x8b57b3c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...crowds concept by sharing the infected samples among all the participants courstesy of the crowds submitting them, it also logically contributed to the use of these freely available services by malware authors themselves. In fact, the low detection rate is often pointed out as the quality of the crypting service by the authors themselves...
 
Tags: malware authors start, malware authors, malware, authors, services, malware services, start, malware product, malware campaign
 
 
 
 
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How effective is the wisdom of crowds as a security mechanism?

2007-12-21 15:26:10 by Tyler Moore in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
Over the past year, Richard Clayton and I have been tracking phishing websites . For this work, we are indebted to PhishTank , a website where dedicated volunteers submit URLs from suspected phishing websites and vote on whether the submissions are valid. The idea behind PhishTank is to bring together the expertise and enthusiasm of people...
 
Tags: phishtank, phishtank compare, leaves phishtank, users, phishtanks users, vote maliciously, vote, active users, urls
 
 
 
 
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Betting on the SOA Horse

2008-01-05 05:49:38 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...crowds and those who bet on the different races Many of us are in this profession because we love the racing action Just like horse racing, thetechnology sponsors, the jockeys and otherinterested parties wear many hats, sponsors and jockeysgenerally betting heavily on their own horse. Organizations, especially large ones, sponsor many horses...
 
Tags: horse, soa horse, technology horse races, races, cep, cep horse, technology horse racingis, real horse races, horse fast
 
 
 
 
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Censoring Web 2.0 - The Access Denied Map

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2007-12-03 10:31:55 by HASH0x89e8c58 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...crowds, whose collective intelligence can in fact act as an early warning system , it's also important to educate those who cannot freely express their opinion on the process of expressing it
 
Tags: information online, online, anti-censorship, global anti-censorship network, online censorship, bloggers figure, global voices advocacy, bloggers, online activists
 
 
 
 
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Wow, This IS Screwed!

2007-12-21 10:51:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
Wow, this IS bad: " Why all Vista users should upgrade to Windows XP So, Q1 : have I seen a happy Vista user until today? Not one Q2 : Did Vista launch create a huge boost to Mac sales? Sure seems like it And Q3 : Will we ALL (apart from Linux and Mac crowds) use Vista in 2 years? Sadly, yes Such is the power of a monopoly About me:...
 
Tags: vista, happy vista user, vista users, vista launch, huge boost, mac crowds, mac sales, sadly, windows
 
 
 
 
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Modeling Urban Panic

2008-01-14 12:09:28 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...crowds do become riotous; and 7) conversely, figure out how one could, through spatial manipulation, inflame a crowd, even a very small one, to set in motion a series of events that culminates into a full scale Revolution or just your average everyday Southeast Asian coup d'état -- regime change through landscape architecture
 
Tags: peaceful crowd, crowd, test hypotheses, test, crowd flees, models urban panic, major arterial streets, torrens, mass evacuation prior
 
 
 
 
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Tear Gas/Pepper Spray Resource

2008-01-15 16:43:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
...crowds. Because of the dynamic nature of protests, aid workers may find themselves exposed to riot control agents (if you've never been gassed before, the first time can be very disconcerting). Unfortunately, this topic isn't discussed very much in traditional humanitarian security training and manuals. So to learn more we need to look to...
 
Tags: tear gas, pepper spray, street medics, volunteer medical personnel, traditional humanitarian security, riot control agents, street medic, support activists, extensive information
 
 
 
 
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Killing spree at Omaha mall

2007-12-08 18:03:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...crowds gather - malls, cinemas, football games, concerts, etc. Mall management companies owe it to consumers to protect them as they go about their daily lives spending money in their premises One of the first rules that we teach security officers is to always be aware and questioning their surroundings. Malls should post security officers...
 
Tags: mall, post security officers, security officers, nebraska mall killings, officers, mall security, past week, robert hawkins, past
 
 
 
 
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Services tap people power to spot malware

2008-02-21 10:24:38 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
People-driven security, which uses the wisdom of crowds to identify new malware, spam and similar threats, is starting to gather momentum as users take to the community-service nature of the endeavor
 
Tags: similar threats, gather momentum, malware, spam, crowds, wisdom, security, users, endeavor
 
 
 
 
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NAC still drawing crowds at RSA

2008-04-10 00:00:00 by