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U.S. Spies Use Custom Videogames to Learn How to Think

2008-04-24 03:30:00 by Michael Peck in Wired Security
 
The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency commissions three custom games to teach new recruits critical thinking skills, while the Army builds its own simulator to instruct intelligence officers in the art of interrogation. No virtual waterboarding allowed
 
Tags: instruct intelligence officers, army builds, custom games, recruits critical, art, skills, simulator, interrogation, virtual
 
 
 
 
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CNN Custom Alerts Spam

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2008-08-10 17:28:40 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...custom alerts Click to Enlarge I've seen two types of this mail - one links to a genuine CNN article from the headline text (with the smaller link underneath leading to an infection site), the other simply links to the infection site from both clickable links. As before, deleting these Emails is the best course of action. Interestingly,...
 
Tags: links, clickable links, simply links, simply, custom alerts, infection site, fake cnn spam, genuine cnn article, huge spam wave
 
 
 
 
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Marketing Bot Allows Insertion of Custom Facebook Feed Messages

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2008-08-11 13:26:48 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...customised messages inserted into your feed - and there's a good chance everyone on your Friends list will see it on their own feed when they login to Facebook This would happen because someone has made a Bot for Facebook that allows you to insert your own custom message / image / clickable link into your Facebook feed. I've no idea if this...
 
Tags: feed, facebook feed, facebook, bot, facebook news feed, facebook terms, bot owners, friend list, myspace-style spam campaigns
 
 
 
 
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Better exception reporting in ASP.NET

2008-08-01 20:30:05 by keith-brown in Security Briefs
 
...custom WebEvent that overrides ToString() to format itself with all of the data I care about. I then overrode the Error event via global.asax and raised my custom event, instead of letting ASP.NET raise its default event. This worked reasonably well with the SimpleMailWebEventProvider, but didn't seem to change anything at all with the event...
 
Tags: error event, event, provider, default event, email provider calls, event log provider, provider include, custom email provider, output stack traces
 
 
 
 
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NSA Attacks West Point! Relax, It's a Cyberwar Game

2008-05-10 01:00:00 by David Axe in Wired Security
 
...custom-built networks at seven of the nation's military academies, including West Point, the Army university 50 miles north of New York City It was all part of the seventh annual Cyber Defense Exercise, a training event for future military IT specialists. The exercise offered a rare window into the NSA's toolkit for infiltrating, corrupting...
 
Tags: army university, army, custom-built networks, networks, nsa, army cadets, west, cadets, network
 
 
 
 
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Identity Framework Probable Feature List

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2007-12-16 06:42:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
...custom STS STS can issue managed cards (see below Fx provides a base class for your STS, (it's currently called SecurityTokenService You derive from this base class and supply a "ScopeProvider" implementation which answers (at least) two questions What type of claims your STS can issue (you have to generate a list of claim URIs that you will...
 
Tags: informationcard login control, login control, information card serializer, information, control, user authentication methods, user, custom sts, card
 
 
 
 
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Some Burning Logging Questions - Answered!

2008-04-23 16:20:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...custom rules or custom collector/connector/agent development. Some vendors have generic text log collectors that can grab and analyze unknown logs. Typically this is done via some form of text indexing that works across all logs, including those from unknown, vertical, esoteric or custom-developed log sources Hope it was useful About me:...
 
Tags: data, raw log data, logs compress, logs, analyze unknown logs, unknown, data retrieval commands, measure logs, log data
 
 
 
 
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Corrupted Heap Termination Redux

2008-06-07 04:00:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...custom allocation within that heap block. Again, if you do this, you will not get benefit from using the heap corruption termination capability and you will still be subject to repeatable heap based attacks Another down side of not using the native Windows heap manager (or if you use your own sub-allocation mechanism) is you cannot take...
 
Tags: heap, free block list, block, handle, bogus heap handle, invalid, invalid heap, custom heap, block header
 
 
 
 
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Streaming SQL Approaches Insist in Ignoring Causality by PatternStorm

2008-09-05 14:25:35 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...custom ordering relationships among the events (the SPREAD operator), which is good news but takes us to the fundamental issue: event processing cannot be reduced to stream processing, that is, to the processing of events that are totally or partially ordered by a pre-defined relationship (as Oracle and StreamBase actual implementations do),...
 
Tags: sql, sql approaches insist, cars stream, stream, average speed event, event, sql languages, languages, cars event