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Communicating about risk - part 1

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2008-05-05 18:12:14 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is
...Differentiation One big advantage these qualifiers provide is to be able to differentiate between risk conditions that, from a risk chart perspective, look the same. This differentiation allows us to prioritize better, which leads to more cost-effective risk management Another advantage is that it provides nomenclature for expressing what our...
 
Tags: risk, effective, cost-effective risk management, fragile condition exists, condition, unstable condition, risk qualifiers, risk condition, risk chart perspective
 
 
 
 
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The FirePack Web Malware Exploitation Kit

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2008-02-20 08:38:26 by HASH0x8b2b43c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...differentiation factors next to both, IcePack and MPack , except of course the different javascript obfuscation technique used. As in the majority of open source malware kits, their "modularity" namely easy for including new exploits and features within, is perhaps what makes assessing the impact of malware kits permanently outdated - a kit...
 
Tags: nuclear malware kit, malware kit, kit, metaphisher malware kit, malware exploitation kit, malware kits permanently, javascript obfuscation technique, source malware kits, major differentiation factors
 
 
 
 
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A Commercial Web Site Defacement Tool

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2008-04-01 06:25:00 by HASH0x8b4eee4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...differentiation factor compared to others is it's efficiency centered functionability, namely it has a built-in Zone-H defacement archive submission . Moreover, within the functions changelog we see Choose number of perm folder to check it and go another site with out load all perm it cause to deface with more speed; Working back proxy and...
 
Tags: malware, malware attack, approaches, defacers, creative approaches, site, entire defacers community, defacers deface, deface
 
 
 
 
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Skype Spamming Tool in the Wild

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2008-04-07 10:51:23 by HASH0x8ad7880 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...differentiation factor is its wildcast capability, namely searching for John will locate and send mass authorization requests to all usernames containing John. So basically, by implementing a simple timeout limit, mass authorization requests are successfully sent. The more average the username provided, the more contacts obtained who will get...
 
Tags: tool, mass authorization requests, malware, malware authors, proprietary tool, urls, botnet, novice botnet masters, infect
 
 
 
 
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The Small Pack Web Malware Exploitation Kit

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2008-05-19 03:41:55 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...differentiation factor in the Small Pack is perhaps the inclusion of all known Opera exploits up to version 9.20, however, the rest of the features are the natural ones included in the majority of already known exploitation kits IE exploits included - Quick TIme Modified, PNG, MDAC, DX Media Firefox exploits included - Quick Time, PNG,...
 
Tags: malware, malware exploitation kit, nuclear malware kit, opera exploits, opera, metaphisher malware kit, exploits, firepack exploitation kit, icepack malware kit
 
 
 
 
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A Review of Hakin9 IT Security Magazine

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2008-05-26 05:12:53 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...differentiation points make a very good impression, the level of difficulty for the article, what you should know before reading it in order to understand it, and what you will know after reading it, which you can find at the end of every article Visual materials The surplus of visual materials is perhaps what won me as a reader from the...
 
Tags: magazine, content, review, hardcode technical content, quality magazine, javascript obfuscation article, article, content quality, issue
 
 
 
 
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Yet Another Massive SQL Injection Spotted in the Wild

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2008-05-26 10:58:01 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...differentiation factors left is increasing the survivability of the domain In the particular attack, the injected domain chliyi.com /reg.js loads an iFrame to chliyi.com /img/info.htm where a VBS script attempts to execute by exploiting MDAC ActiveX code execution (CVE-2006-0003), whose detection rate is 1/32 (3.13%) and is detected as...
 
Tags: domain, domain chliyi, attack, sql injection attack, vbs script attempts, chliyi, malicious domain, sql injection attacks, differentiation factors
 
 
 
 
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So now everyone is an IT GRC vendor

2008-06-01 21:35:00 by Ryan Shopp in practical risk management
 
...differentiation and attempt to coin a segment that defines your being. IT-GRC (short for Information Technology Governance, Risk & Compliance) is a term that started gaining momentum about a year ago. At that time Gartner, Forrester, EMA and other research analyst firms started using it to describe exactly what Securityworks does. Next thing...
 
Tags: technology, single product, technology company, product, itgrc, security, it-grc, itgrc products, security products
 
 
 
 
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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
...differentiation, a certain country can easily buy direct access to request a botnet on demand with infected hosts within the country only and do whatever they want with them - in this case perhaps fortify and patch the host, upon forwarding it to the several online malware scanners to ensure they won't have to rebuy access to it again....
 
Tags: botnets, disrupt botnets, malware, fight malware, market forces, online malware scanners, single pcs, pcs, successful botnets