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Hotel's Dirty Drinks

2008-03-22 22:41:25 by JJ in Security Uncorked
 
...dirty) on any housekeeping carts. hmm. theyre not changing them out so how are they cleaning the glasses I was getting ready to post a blog asking just that question when I did a search online and confirmed my worst suspicions. Looks like theres a nation-wide coup over just this very topic, after numerous TV news stings with hidden cameras....
 
Tags: dirty, glasses, in-room glasses, frequently sneak, frequently, link, carts, dirty drink, water
 
 
 
 
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7 dirty secrets of the security industry

2008-05-01 00:00:00 by Tim Greene in Network World on Security
 
Corporate IT executives need to beware the seven dirty secrets of the security industry that can undermine the safety of business networks, a security expert told attendees at Interop Las Vegas
 
Tags: security industry, dirty secrets, interop las vegas, business networks, security expert, attendees, safety, beware, undermine
 
 
 
 
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Dirty secret #2 - the perimeter is dead!

2008-05-05 16:51:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...dirty secrets of security vendors. While I agree with some, disagree with a few, it was #2 that caught my eye The author, Joshua Corman , claims, "There is no perimeter". Paraphrasing him Vendors say that the network perimeter must be defended , but most data that is actually lost doesn t go through the firewall. Half of all breaches are...
 
Tags: perimeter, security, security vendors, lost, vendors, lost thumb, data-centric, data, santa claus
 
 
 
 
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Afilias and GoDaddy Want to Rule .US

2007-07-31 14:19:04 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...dirty image has always rubbed me the wrong way and I really doubt it gets them a dime of business they wouldn't otherwise get. It would be good for .US to have a company as big and aggressive as GoDaddy running it But I think a more boring company will get the contract
 
Tags: alliance registry, registry, alliance registry proposes, godaddy, registry contract, registry fee, alliance, domain registry, love kids
 
 
 
 
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Quick and dirty Information Card implementation without SSL

2007-11-29 09:49:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
In .NET 3.5 , CardSpace supports sending security tokens to websites that don't have an SSL certificate. This is for websites like personal blogs or other low-risk applications where using SSL might be overkill. In this example, Kim shows how to add support for Information Cards to a website in about 30 lines of code Lets face it. Getting a...
 
Tags: ssl, personal web sites, proper security analysis, digital framework, low-risk applications, security tokens, personal blogs, actual monetary, web server
 
 
 
 
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Setting file ACLs with PowerShell part 4

2007-11-29 09:34:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
...dirty listing of an enumeration's values. But to understand how it works, you'll have to bear with me and learn about type-constrained variables in PowerShell, which is a really cool feature unto itself, and one that I use all the time While PowerShell doesn't support strong typing in the classic sense of a compiler, it does have a feature...
 
Tags: values, invalid enumeration values, enumeration, enumeration values, new-object security, object, powershell, invalid cast exception, cast
 
 
 
 
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Autorun: good for you?

2007-09-23 05:29:48 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...dirty old tricks again Updated, 22 September 2007. Turns out there's a registry key that keeps track of all USB drives your computer has ever seen, and this key will override the Autorun settings if you insert a drive that your computer has seen before. So in addition to changing Autorun, you'll also need to delete this other key. Write a...
 
Tags: autorun, autorun raises, autorun commands, autorun settings, key, registry key, disable autorun, computer, computer configuration
 
 
 
 
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Links for 2007-12-20 [del.icio.us]

2007-12-21 00:00:00 by Editor in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Dirty Questions of Measuring Information Security Rational Survivability: The Seesaw CISO...Changing Places But Similar Faces... 've talked about the fact that "security" should be a business function and not a technical one and quite frankly what Dennis is hearing has been a trend on the uptick for the last 3-4 years as "information...
 
Tags: security, security investments, application security, information security, application, users data, data, data protection, security growth
 
 
 
 
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Modeling Urban Panic

2008-01-14 12:09:28 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...dirty bomb detonation; 4) design a mall which can compel customers to shop to the point of bankruptcy, to walk obliviously for miles and miles and miles, endlessly to the point of physical exhaustion and even death; 5) identify, if possible, the tell-tale signs of a peaceful crowd about to metamorphosize into a hellish mob; 6) determine how...
 
Tags: peaceful crowd, crowd, test hypotheses, test, crowd flees, models urban panic, major arterial streets, torrens, mass evacuation prior
 
 
 
 
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IPs Now Private Info?

2008-01-22 13:49:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...dirty, evil thought that crossed my mind when read it: at one point, Google and other companies should just boycott those "' dumb privacy' freaks" and conduct a wonderful experiment: how long those