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Holiday spirit helped double Storm worm

2008-01-11 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
Some clever, sexy Christmas-themed spam and a long holiday season helped the criminals behind the notorious Storm Worm more than double their network of infected PCs over the past few weeks, security experts say
 
Tags: notorious storm worm, security experts, double, holiday season, network, clever, spam, criminals, past
 
 
 
 
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Pennsylvania Department of Aging seniors affected by stolen laptop

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2008-01-03 17:18:52 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...double password protected Evan] Oooh. Double password protected?! Nothing more than a minor nuisance to circumvent the department was in the process of encrypting computers and has since completed that work to provide additional protection Evan] Amen! The department has seen the light It also is in the process of centralizing information...
 
Tags: pennsylvania, pennsylvania department, department, sensitive personal information, personal information, information, computer, laptop computer, medical information
 
 
 
 
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Consumer Reports on Aviation Security and the TSA

2008-01-10 13:58:40 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...double hulled door Consumer Reports searched NAS, the Aviation Safety Reporting System, and found 51 incidents since April 2002 in which flight crews reported problems with the hardened doors Most of them weren't really security issues: locking mechanisms failing, doors popping open in flight, and so on. But this was more interesting: A 2006...
 
Tags: security, aviation security, security consultancy, doors, double doors, door, consumer reports, secure door, cockpit doors
 
 
 
 
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Corrupted Heap Termination Redux

2008-06-07 04:00:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...double linked list so corruption can be detected by walking the list Buffer overrun: the next block header size does not match the expected current block size Buffer underrun: same as above, but the previous block header size does not match the expected current block size Attempting to free a free'd block (double-free bug Attempting to free a...
 
Tags: heap, free block list, block, handle, bogus heap handle, invalid, invalid heap, custom heap, block header
 
 
 
 
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Dickson County School District employee information stolen

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2008-06-12 11:52:47 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...double password protected Evan] Sounds impressive, doesn't it It has a double password so it would take a computer genius to get into it Evan] I am certainly no genius, but I am pretty sure I could get into it Chandler said he plans to upgrade the security system at the school board building In the meantime, workers will lock up any...
 
Tags: information, school, store personal information, personal information, dickson county, dickson police, police, store confidential information, school board
 
 
 
 
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Making Risk Measures Agree with Accounting 100%

2006-12-26 05:27:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...double as accounting software. But in reality, these two fields have different requirements (although they may be similar in some ways). It is true that a software can be made flexible enough to accommodate both requirements. Results may not be exact but good enough. But getting values to agree with the accounting system would result into...
 
Tags: risk, risk software, software, risk measurement, values, exact market values, exact, exact cent, cent
 
 
 
 
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Automating web application security testing

2007-07-16 11:40:00 by Panayiotis Mavrommatis in Google Online Security Blog
 
...double quote not filtered or escaped form blah Injection inside URL attributes - non-http(s) URL javascript:evil script In JavaScript context - single quote not filtered or escaped In the cases where XSS arises from meta characters being inserted from untrusted sources into an HTML document, the issue can be avoided either by...
 
Tags: web application, application, input, input parameters, accepts user input, xss, xss vulnerabilities, security, security team check
 
 
 
 
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138 Million Domains

2007-08-29 21:28:19 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...double-digit percentages. The huge growth in .cn domains, 61% over the previous quarter, is probably due, in large part, to an aggressive price promotion by the domain's registry, just RMB1.00 (about $0.13) for the first year. At the end of the 2nd quarter there were more than 73 million .com and .net domains, the overwhelming majority .com....
 
Tags: domains, million domains, net domains, million, domain registrations, domain, growth, huge growth, verisign domains
 
 
 
 
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Google Spamming Us

2007-12-20 22:11:11 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...double cross my heart and swear to die. This is from Nov 18th-Dec 20th (just over one month grep 66.249.73.40 error log |grep -c wp-trackback 938 Think how much bandwidth Google uses that is just completely unnecessary. The countless and senseless bandwidth waste-age. I started using Google because it was light on my personal bandwidth - so...
 
Tags: google, html http1, http1, html, google likes viagra, referrer spam, spam, google spam, con google
 
 
 
 
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Using Remote Assistance behind a router

2008-01-14 08:24:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
...double-clicked my name, which brought up a chat window. Under the Actions or Tools menu (I forget which) he selected, "Request remote assistance", which brought up a chat window with the typical "Accept" and "Decline" links. I clicked accept, and after about 10 seconds and a second confirmation from him, I was looking at his screen. Woohoo!...