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Contest: Cory Doctorow's Cipher Wheel Rings

2008-09-05 12:01:09 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...dot above, a dot below, or no dot at all. The first wheel should have alternating above, none, below. The second wheel should be the repeating sequence of above, above, none, none, below, below. The third wheel should be the repeating sequence of above, above, above, none, none, none, below, below, below." (I know it sounds confusing, but...
 
Tags: wheel, letter, two-letter key, middle wheel, dot, cory doctorow, cory, rings, top wheel
 
 
 
 
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Lost.....and Found

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2008-08-15 14:20:17 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...dot)com ietv(dot)co.uk/category/watch-lost-online watchprisonbreakonlinefree(dot)com watch-lost-online(dot)info www.heroesstreaming(dot)com I guess I ended up with a trilogy after all
 
Tags: zango installer prompts, installer prompts, lost, zango, tv episodes, episodes, enlarge, click, dot
 
 
 
 
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MS08-067 and the SDL

2008-10-23 01:09:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...dot, dot-dot, slash or backslash and if it is then applies canonicalization algorithms The irony of the bug is it occurs while calling a bounded function call tcscpy s(previousLastSlash, pBufferEnd - previousLastSlash, ptr + 2 This function is a macro that expands to wcscpy s (dest, len, source); technically, the bug is not in the call to...
 
Tags: manual code review, code review, vulnerabilities, reduce security vulnerabilities, sdl, windows, windows server, sdl process fails, sdl process
 
 
 
 
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US Government planning to spend 10% of its IT budget on cyber-security by 2009.

2008-02-25 13:59:58 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...DOT (Department of Transportation) more than doubling its budget while DHS (Department of Homeland Security) had less than a 5% increase, they dont have their priorities right or that we should fund federal agencies based on how well they do on FISMA. These numbers may seem a little out of whack, but here is why I think the US government is...
 
Tags: cyber-security, budget, cyber-security budget, security, government, measure security, security budgets, mature security postures, government infrastructure
 
 
 
 
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Babies and bath water

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2008-03-21 16:13:09 by HASH0x8b4bc58 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...dot com bubble first hand. Many companies that were doing great things were killed off in the great extinction of the dot coms. It took years for the market to come back. In the case of NAC not only would the better NAC companies and technologies be the ones to suffer, but the networks they can protect would suffer. NAC is attractive because...
 
Tags: nac, cover nac, nac technology, nac sucks, nac solutions, nac companies, live nac, lockdown, lockdown networks
 
 
 
 
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Spamblogs Pushing Rogue Antivirus Programs

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2008-08-11 18:50:05 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
Nothing earth-shattering, but worth a mention anyway. I've noticed a couple of blogs pushing security blog feeds are also hawking pretend Youtube vids Click to Enlarge When the videos are clicked, you'll find your browser vanishes down onto the taskbar, replaced by this sitting in the middle of the screen Once you click the popup box...
 
Tags: security, security blog feeds, rogue antivirus product, click, videos, pretend youtube vids, fake videos, scare tactics, endless barrage
 
 
 
 
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Automatic Email Harvesting 2.0

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2008-08-26 08:01:51 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...dot]com mail [space]gmail [space]com mail(@)gmail.com mail(a)gmail.com mail AT gmail DOT com The overall availability and easy of obtaining a huge percentage of valid email addresses within an organizaton, is not just resulting in the increasing segmentation and localization of spam, phishing and malware campaigns , it's increasing the...
 
Tags: email, email addresses, valid email addresses, spam filters, spam, huge email databases, anti spam filters, mail spacegmail spacecom, mail
 
 
 
 
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Holy Media Codecs, Batman!

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2008-08-27 10:10:53 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...dot)com, an obvious Digg.com knockoff apparently hosting a large streaming window - the movie quality will be awesome, won't it? Well, actually, no it won't In the middle of the video window is a popup Install the "codec", and this won't end well. The EXE comes from a site called Favoritetube(dot)com A quick check for the safety...
 
Tags: dark knight issue, dark knight, movie player, click, player, enlarge, image, copy image location, movie
 
 
 
 
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Motor Vehicle Crashes and Complex Event Processing

2007-12-31 03:19:30 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...DOT) research programs.RITAs mission is to advance the deployment ofmulti-disciplinary technologies to improve transportation system in the U.S Shaw-Pin Miaou, Joon Jin Song and Bani K. Mallick wrote a detailed paper, Roadway Traffic Crash Mapping: A Space-Time Modeling Approach , in RITAs Journal of Transportation and Statistics . In their...
 
Tags: motor vehicle crashes, complex event, traffic, manage traffic, joon jin song, song, roadway traffic crash, bayes methods, hierarchical bayes methods
 
 
 
 
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Google Changes Privacy Policy

2007-03-15 08:31:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...dot com gig and I made a search for some obscure technical detail. I was shocked that the first result took me to what I was looking for, and it has been my homepage ever since Unfortunately Ive had to turn a blind eye to the serious privacy concerns Ive had. The functionality they provide is so critical to my job that I have chosen to...
 
Tags: privacy, google, privacy concerns, policy, google chat, financial data, data, google desktop, users privacy