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Adi Shamir's Cube Attacks

2008-08-19 13:15:35 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...degree of the algebraic polynomial is too high -- and all the blog ciphers we use have a higher degree. But, in general, anything that can be described with a low-degree polynomial equation is vulnerable: that's pretty much every LFSR scheme
 
Tags: degree, low-degree polynomial equation, cube attacks, adi shamir, attack, joke, cryptanalytic attack, personal joke, nist hash submission
 
 
 
 
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Malware Infected Hosts as Stepping Stones

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2008-02-21 22:03:01 by HASH0x8b1f7bc in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...degree of maliciousness of these hosts can only be measured once the exact IPs are known, and by degree of maliciousness I'm refering to their state of openess, namely, can malware, spam and phishing be also relayed through them, or we can eventually look up the historical IP reputation to figure out whether such activities have been going on...
 
Tags: hosts, malware, socks hosts, malware infects hosts, top application, application, stones, top, activities
 
 
 
 
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More thoughts on vulnerability

2008-04-07 13:34:01 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is
 
...degree. As I think about it, maybe these are both the same answer stated from slightly different perspectives It Depends The it depends answer comes from the fact that we havent identified the threat agent were up against. If were talking about a threat agent who isnt particularly skilled, isnt leveraging a toolset that makes up for their...
 
Tags: capable threat agent, threat agent, capable, password, vulnerability, six-character password, vulnerable, -character password, numeric
 
 
 
 
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What Are You Managing Towards? (And On Disproving Risk Management)

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2008-06-03 14:41:11 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
...degree, log analysis from various sources. These are very basic core security functions, and the belief is that if we do these well, we will be secure. Ok, well what does this secure mean, and how can we talk to management about whether we are meeting this goal? If you examine that question, you actually find out what a Being Secure...
 
Tags: management, risk management, term risk management, management focuses, management approach, risk management process, patch management, cost management, upper management
 
 
 
 
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Using Market Forces to Disrupt Botnets

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2008-06-09 05:19:02 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...degree of which malware introduced by multiple parties is managing to infect a PC, is with how many different instances of malware is a single PCs infected in a particular moment of time. Now, go perform a forensics audit on a PC which on behalf of the over ten different pieces of malware, is responsible for fraudulent Ebanking transactions,...
 
Tags: botnets, disrupt botnets, malware, fight malware, market forces, online malware scanners, single pcs, pcs, successful botnets
 
 
 
 
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Are the Inmates Running the Jails in Maryland?

2008-07-26 04:29:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...degree assault after he beat a woman so badly that he broke her rib. That was not his first violent outburst however. In the late '90s his then wife had to get three protective orders issued against him In 2004, he pleaded guilty to breaking a woman's rib. The woman whose rib he broke was pregnant with his child. A judge put him on probation...
 
Tags: officers, correction officers, maryland, multiple rib fractures, rib, baby, baby boy, anger management classes, anger management
 
 
 
 
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Summarizing July's Threatscape

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2008-08-01 16:08:24 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...degree to which my vendor knows what going on online, I'd be pretty excited. However, I'm not. Prevx were catching up with a service which I covered approximately two months ago , I even had the chance to constructively confront with one of the affected sites on how despite their security measures in place, this attack was still possible....
 
Tags: malware, profitable malware operations, malware authors, malware tools, malware coder, malware kit, malware infection, neosploit malware kit, spam
 
 
 
 
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ISSA Kentuckiana Meeting, Friday January 9th, 2009, from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm

2009-01-05 20:55:51 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...Degree in Criminology from the University of Louisville, and is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Organizational Leadership. He is a graduate of the Southern Police Institute. As always, lunch will be FREE and we will give away a few raffle prizes! Hope to see you there!! Warmest regards, Randall Frietzsche If you are interested is...
 
Tags: issa kentuckiana, friday, friday january 9th, january 9th, lee, lee booth, issa kentuckiana officers, anti-terrorism operations, operations
 
 
 
 
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Quantitative Analysis = "Highly" Technical Analysis (?)

2007-02-07 09:34:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...degree The relationship of Technical and Quantitative analysis can be likened to the relationship between Astrology and Astronomy. One is seen as superstition while the other as a science. Astrology came about due to the lack of sophisticated tools and theories. The same with Technical Analysis -- people relied on charts because it was...
 
Tags: technical, technical analysis, quantitative analysis, quantitative, technical indicators, indicators, survey results, results, reversal models