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More on the necessity of antivirus software

2007-09-25 17:53:47 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...defensive technologies to help keep the bad guys at bay. In my post I'm simply explaining a personal tradeoff I've made on my own machines at home --that by not running as admin (which I didn't mention before), by using UAC, by relying on the firewall, and by training my family--I have made the decision not to use anti-malware So should you...
 
Tags: antivirus software, computers, client computers, similar self-control, control, involve tradeoffs, previous post, personal computers, post
 
 
 
 
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Cyber Jihadist Hacking Teams

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2007-12-17 20:03:29 by HASH0x847073c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Defensive cyber terrorism as an extension of cyber jihad in an asymmetric nature , is what is going on online for the time being, and has been going on for the last couple of years The bottom line, script kiddies cyber jihadists dominate, PSYOPS fill the gaps where there's zero technical know-how, mentors are slowly emerging and providing...
 
Tags: anti-islamic web sites, islamic web sites, web, jihad, electronic jihad program, campaign, electrnic jihad campaign, web sites, cyber jihad
 
 
 
 
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Combating Unrestricted Warfare

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2007-12-15 09:08:23 by HASH0x8472308 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...defensive strategy in this area. The situation is starting to change and improve, in large part because visionaries like General Cartwright are in key slots. But we do not have a lot of time. The intelligence community is not sufficiently engaged in conducting, analyzing, and reporting those issues. During the Cold War, we analyzed Soviet...
 
Tags: chinese information warfare, information, information warfare, warfare, cyber warfare unit, cyber warfare, asymmetric warfare, unconventional warfare, warfare employs surprise
 
 
 
 
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Recent Symantec and IBM vulnerabilities, giblets, banned APIs and the SDL

2008-01-04 23:37:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...defensive position. What's interesting to me is how many other products out there consume these giblets? Because those products have security bugs too
 
Tags: linker sdl requirements, sdl requirements, ibm, sdl, requirements, symantec, bugs affect ibm, bugs, sdl refers
 
 
 
 
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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
 
...defensive mechanism against a Sun/MySQL/TIBCO triple-threat, and they would get great technology at the same time I would be surprised if IBM buys TIBCO, but if they do, this would also keep things interesting From a cultural perspective, the TIBCO culture and the Sun culture are the best match. I dont think that the SAP or IBM cultures are...
 
Tags: tibco, tibco spends, ibm buys tibco, tibco culture, tibco employess, oracle buys tibco, sun buys tibco, challenge oracle, oracle
 
 
 
 
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35,000 T. Rowe price plan participants alerted

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2008-01-29 12:51:35 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...defensive layer Other personal information, such as addresses, and birth dates, was not on the computers Evan] This information can be obtained publicly anyway, so no help here The company offered those affected a free one-year subscription to an online credit monitoring service and up to $25,000 of identity theft insurance, as well as tips...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, confidential information, rowe price, insurance, identity theft insurance, cbiz benefits, cbiz
 
 
 
 
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How to Audit a Log Server?

2008-02-05 18:31:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...defensive) as well as other purposes, all the way to operational troubleshooting. Some of the regulations, such as PCI DSS do call for log protections (see Req 10 or, while we are at it, go read my PCI book chapter on logs[PDF Also, keep in mind all the reasons to protect logs C-I-A that I highlighted in " Top 11 Reasons to Secure and...
 
Tags: log server, protect logs c-i-a, logs, preserve computer logs, home-grown log server, protect, security audit, reasons, establish
 
 
 
 
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The Cyber Storm II Cyber Exercise

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2008-04-03 12:29:03 by HASH0x8b6d0a8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...defensive and offensive activities, something China's that's been copying attitude from the U.S military thinkers, is already envisioning Morever, Taiwan, too, copycating the U.S, performed a cyber warfare exercise codenamed "Hankuang No. 22" (Han Glory) in 2006 as well, fearing cyber warfare attacks from China The new "Cyber Storm" Cyber...
 
Tags: cyber warfare, passive cyber warfare, cyber warfare tensions, offensive cyber warfare, cyber warfare exercise, warfare, econonomic warfare, cyber warfare attacks, broader information warfare
 
 
 
 
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The First Rule of Programming: It's Always Your Fault

2008-03-23 10:36:58 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...defensive about their work. Recently, when being asked to discuss how his code was working, a programmer in one team I'm familiar with retorted to a project manager "I'm here to write the code not justify it." That's the same sort of attitude that makes exclamations such as "there's no risk" and "it's never been hacked before." But the point...
 
Tags: code, debug code, fault, guilty code, software security presentations, software, project code, days, secure software