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Localizing Cybercrime - Cultural Diversity on Demand

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2008-02-21 17:06:11 by HASH0x8b1e62c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Cultural diversity on demand is something I anticipated as a future malware trend two years ago - " Localization as a concept will attract the coders attention By localization of malware, I mean social engineering attacks, use of spelling and grammar free native language catches, IP Geolocation, in both when it comes to future or current...
 
Tags: future, future malware trend, trend, malware, malware authors, demand, russian malware, services, demand translation services
 
 
 
 
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Risk and Culture

2008-05-21 05:19:59 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School. Abstract Cultural Cognition refers to the disposition to conform one's beliefs about societal risks to one's preferences for how society should be organized. Based on surveys and experiments involving some 5,000 Americans, the Second National Risk and Culture Study presents empirical evidence of...
 
Tags: risk, values, cultural values, hold hierarchical, hold, egalitarian values, hold individualist values, diverse values, national risk
 
 
 
 
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Want Great Technology? Buy TIBCO (TIBX)

2008-01-18 11:42:27 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...cultural perspective, the TIBCO culture and the Sun culture are the best match. I dont think that the SAP or IBM cultures are very suitable for TIBCO employess. So, if you toss in the cultural perspective, Sun, cash rich and in acquisition mode, seems the most likely candidate to buy TIBCO
 
Tags: tibco, tibco spends, ibm buys tibco, tibco culture, tibco employess, oracle buys tibco, sun buys tibco, challenge oracle, oracle
 
 
 
 
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Core Program Practices: Assess, Implement and Monitor

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2008-03-13 11:00:46 by Micki Krause in BlogInfoSec.com
...cultural reality of your organization As common sense as one would think, many security professionals have not recognized this alignment is an imperative. An organizational assessment should be standard practice and security experts such as Harry DeMaio (former president and CEO of a wholly owned subsidiary of Deloitte & Touche - Deloitte &...
 
Tags: security program, effective security program, security, shape security strategies, security requires, risk management, security risk management, security experts, security leader
 
 
 
 
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Another twist to keep AV vendors on their toes

2008-02-21 08:17:49 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
Malware developers have been switching to targeted attacks for some time. This usually consists of going after a specific organization or individuals associated with that organization (e.g. customers and employees). However, this can leave out a large number of user groups--user groups with similar cultural interests
 
Tags: specific organization, organization, similar cultural, malware developers, user, attacks, consists, employees, time
 
 
 
 
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Censorship for the rest of us

2008-02-25 11:08:04 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
Actions like those taken by Musharraf must be condemned by the global community as nothing less than Internet terrorism. Given the opportunity, I believe other oppressive regimes (e.g. China and Russia) will see advantages in disrupting the free flow of electronic information. We know that China already blocks citizen access to information...
 
Tags: internet terrorism, electronic information, economic objectives, global community, information contrary, oppressive regimes, free flow, china, russia
 
 
 
 
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Review of The Dark Visitor

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2008-02-13 01:24:00 by Richard Bejtlich in TaoSecurity
...cultural differences are probably the most significant challenges for Westerners trying to understand Chinese hackers TDV focuses on culture, history, and personalities. Many Chinese hackers are driven by intense patriotism and nationalism. They feel compelled to "defend" their homeland by attacking others, initially foreign sites but...
 
Tags: dark visitor, american hackers, hackers, blog readers, blog, chinese hackers, dark visitor blog, book abruptly, book
 
 
 
 
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Embedding Malicious IFRAMEs Through Stolen FTP Accounts

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2008-03-03 10:14:01 by HASH0x8b0b9bc in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Cultural Diversity on Demand On the other side of the universe The concept of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is nothing new, but this is the first time anyone has organized the purchase of FTP login credentials , with additional tools available to help a buyer confirm he's making a smart purchase on the other side of the universe on...
 
Tags: ftp accounts, ftp, iframes, malicious iframes, web service, service, ftp account credentials, demand service, data
 
 
 
 
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Justifying Digital Security via 10-K Risk Factors

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2008-03-23 16:56:00 by Richard Bejtlich in TaoSecurity
...cultural differences between personnel in different areas of the world. This item could have also listed vulnerability to economic espionage by hiring foreign nationals in overseas plants We are exposed to exchange rate fluctuations. This is purely a business concern Our business, operating results and financial condition are subject to...
 
Tags: digital security, digital security implications, security, digital security program, 10-k, business, business objectives, business people, business risk