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Data Mining for Terrorists Doesn't Work

2008-10-10 06:35:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...decade ago, and the databases created by those activities are tempting targets for federal agencies. And they draw a distinction between subject-based data mining (starting with one individual and looking for connections) compared with pattern-based data mining (looking for anomalous activities that could show illegal activities But the...
 
Tags: data, synthetic population data, terrorists, program, program enters, research scientist, research, protect, microsoft research
 
 
 
 
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Web 2.0 Security - The Beginning of the End or The End of the Beginning

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2008-05-29 15:26:12 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
...decade worth of innovation to catch up on, its very hard to argue that infosec will just latch on to Web 2.0 and actually solve this problem when it has not addressed any of the new innovations in the last decade or so Andy Steingruebl went to a Web 2.0 security conference and took notes on the ideas and presentations, if you are in infosec...
 
Tags: people, software security people, software security, software security team, security, security people, web, security support, architecture
 
 
 
 
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EIC 2008: Takeaways from Europe's biggest identity event

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2008-06-13 08:19:15 by Bill Nagel in Security & Risk Management
...decade ago and recalling the name "Nick Leeson" and realizing that, while we have made great technological strides in the past decade, all too often the people and process elements get short shrift. (If the control framework breaks down, it matters little what tech was used to enact it...). So while there was plenty of forward-looking...
 
Tags: identity, information, information risk management, user-centric identity, iam, iam implementation, effective information security, implement iam, holistic iam context
 
 
 
 
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Australian medical information found in abandoned amusement park

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2008-06-28 13:10:55 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...decade Evan] A decade? This story keeps getting more bizarre The Health Department is reviewing waste disposal procedures following the discovery at Lansvale in Sydney's south west Evan] I presume that the waste disposal procedures have probably changed over the past ten years. The Health Department should be reviewing procedures on a...
 
Tags: confidential medical records, medical records, clinical waste, waste, waste disposal procedures, disposal, records, procedures, amusement park
 
 
 
 
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Toto, its not 1995 any more

2008-08-04 10:55:07 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...decade ahead of the infosec people who continue to roll like its 1995 with SSL and network firewalls . By itself this is already a problem, but its made worse because attackers are a decade ahead as well
 
Tags: decade ahead, sso summit, sso, christopher paidhrin, infosec people, adoption, gunnar peterson, service demands, john haggard
 
 
 
 
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Are Business Risk and Technical Security Part of a Natural Fourier Series?

2008-10-08 10:25:03 by mcurphey in Mark Curphey - SecurityBuddha.com
 
Decade after decade politics moves from regulated economies to de-regulated economies. Changes are usually are triggered by unpredictable events (in political speak). We are almost certainly about to go onto a period of heavy government regulation of the financial services industry where unpredictable events or failure in plain English is blamed...
 
Tags: unpredictable events, regulation, decade, heavy government regulation, decade politics moves, financial services industry, plain english, economies, period
 
 
 
 
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Netscape Closes Shop

2007-12-30 20:17:11 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...decade that Ive been hacking on the defunct browser so its with sadness I say, so long Netscape
 
Tags: netscape, netscape theme, netscape browser, browser, defunct browser, reach netscape, original netscape design, original browser wars, download mozillas firefox
 
 
 
 
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NSA Backdoors in Crypto AG Ciphering Machines

2008-01-11 06:51:20 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...decade after the end of WWII, the NSA, also known as No Such Agency, had rigged the Crypto AG machines in various ways according to the targeted countries. It is probably no exaggeration to state that this 20th century version of the "Trojan horse" is quite likely the greatest sting in modern history We don't know the truth here, but the...
 
Tags: crypto, machines, company, swiss company, company web site, century, 20th century version, military messages, countries
 
 
 
 
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The Austin Project

2008-01-21 22:45:39 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...decade. But for people who are either new, or are shifting their interests from some other area of security, the web space is highly complex and deep. So herein lies the second reason I started this site. I wanted a place where I could teach people what I know. Call it altruism, call it wanting a sanity check on my own thoughts, but here we...
 
Tags: people, competent people, project, helps people focus, austin project, austin project web-page, security, web application security, site
 
 
 
 
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Security vs. Privacy

2008-01-29 05:21:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...decade In a Jan. 21 New Yorker articl