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D.C. Gun Ban Lifted - Thank You Supreme Court!

2008-06-27 02:23:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
The news came like music to my ears (and to hundreds of thousands of other ears across the country, I dare say). Law abiding citizens in the District of Columbia would be allowed to protect their homes and families The vote was not unanimous by any means - the historical decision was arrived at by a 5 to 4 vote to remove the ban prohibiting...
 
Tags: mayor, mayor fenty, supreme court, virginia home, virginia, mayor acted, home, law, guns
 
 
 
 
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Botnets, Fastflux and DDoS in D.C.

2007-08-25 12:10:00 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
This Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 27 and 28 at the AED conference center in Washington, D.C. the third Internet Security Operations and Intelligence workshop will be held. The participant list, as security events go, is star-studded. If you follow popular security lists and blogs you'll recognize a lot of names, such as Johannes Ullrich from the...
 
Tags: security events, events, security, internet security operations, internet, aed conference center, conference, exploit prevention labs, roger thompson
 
 
 
 
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Botnets, Fastflux and DDoS in D.C.

2007-08-25 12:10:00 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
This Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 27 and 28 at the AED conference center in Washington, D.C. the third Internet Security Operations and Intelligence workshop will be held. The participant list, as security events go, is star-studded. If you follow popular security lists and blogs you'll recognize a lot of names, such as Johannes Ullrich from the...
 
Tags: security events, events, security, internet security operations, internet, aed conference center, conference, exploit prevention labs, roger thompson
 
 
 
 
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D.C. Police Detective Arressted for Propositioning a "Prostitute".

2008-07-12 18:58:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
Some time clients call us up and ask if we can send them off-duty cops for Executive Protection assignments. My first inclination is to tell them why we are reluctant to use off-duty police Yesterday, WTOP radio reported that a Detective Wheeler from the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police had been arrested for trying to hire a Prostitute....
 
Tags: detective wheeler, security, security person, professional security company, time, vice unit, time clients call, prostitute, executive protection assignments
 
 
 
 
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From the Eye of a Legal Storm, Murdoch's Satellite-TV Hacker Tells All

2008-05-30 15:00:00 by Kim Zetter in Wired Security
 
SAN DIEGO -- Christopher Tarnovsky feels vindicated. The software engineer and former satellite-TV pirate has been on the hot seat for five years, accused of helping his former employer, a Rupert Murdoch company, sabotage a rival to gain the top spot in the global pay-TV wars But two weeks ago a jury in the civil lawsuit against that employer,...
 
Tags: smart cards piled, cards, nds cards, access cards, sample directv cards, directv cards, smart cards, nds smart cards, nds
 
 
 
 
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Cross-site scripting CAN be used to hack a server

2008-08-05 22:06:00 by Russ McRee in HolisticInfoSec.org
 
Likely you remember when Joseph Pierini at McAfee Secure / Hacker Safe said XSS wasn't important because "cross-site scripting can't be used to hack a server. You may be able to do other things with it. You may be able to do things that affect the end-user or the client. But the customer data protected with the server, in the database, isn't...
 
Tags: server, server hack, hack, manager, file manager tool, file, root password, email, cpanel user
 
 
 
 
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Software Security Metrics and Commentary on "Metrics Framework" Paper

2007-09-17 20:41:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
I was reading the paper " A Metrics Framework to Drive Application Security Improvement " recently and some thoughts started to gel about what types of web application security metrics are meaningful This is going to be part-1 of 2 about the paper and software security metrics. In this first installment I comment on the metrics from the paper...
 
Tags: metrics, software security metrics, metrics framework, metrics miss, design-time metric, design, upstream sdl metrics, application, web application security
 
 
 
 
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Auditing open source software

2007-10-08 16:13:00 by Panayiotis Mavrommatis in Google Online Security Blog
 
Written by Chris Evans, Security Team Google encourages its employees to contribute back to the open source community, and there is no exception in Google's Security Team. Let's look at some interesting open source vulnerabilities that were located and fixed by members of Google's Security team. It is interesting to classify and aggregate the...
 
Tags: image, malicious image file, libtiff image, values, jpeg image, tiff header values, source, evil tiff file, evil
 
 
 
 
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Windows Live OneCare has a Broken Light

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2008-01-16 04:27:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
My continuing saga using Windows Live OneCare Like most security products, this one puts an icon in the taskbar. This one glows green if everything is OK, yellow if there's somthing minor wrong, or red if there's something really wrong. For example, it'll glow red while your firewall is disabled By the way, that's one thing I really like about...
 
Tags: onecare, windows, windows live onecare, contact onecare support, onecare dashboard, light, wrong, firewall, replacement firewall