"High-level" vs Fluffy vs Dumb vs Irrelevant?
...dumb down our presentations, WE NEED TO MAKE THEM RELEVANT
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Nobody Is That Dumb ... Oh, Wait IX
...Dumb ... Oh, Wait" series comes back - with a vengeance! I really should have launched "the dumbest prediction of the year" contest, but I didn't :-) Still, we have a wiiiiiiiiiiinner: " TJXs Security Breaches Will Force it to Go out of Business or to Merge with Another Company " Huh? Then it gets better: "Furthermore, the negative impact...
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Nobody Is That Dumb ... Oh, Wait X
...Dumb ... Oh, Wait" series , a cheap [ but - hopefully! - more humorous ] imitation of the infamous "doghouse
Today's entry is about throwing free money and free work [of somebody else, mind you] down the proverbial crapper
So, the other day I was at one security conference which had a bit of a vendor expo. Since I work for a log management...
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CHECKLISTS ARE NOT FOR DUMMIES, BUT THEY SURE ARE DUMB!
...dumb
As slightly paranoid, skeptical and jaded risk management professionals, we know this to be true. A PCI compliant company may or may not be at all secure or risk-free or even risk-reduced. Thats an aspect of analysis that the checklist is some prior information for, but not nearly all the information we need for an analysis of risk or...
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On Doomsaying (Terry Childs case)
...Dumb... Oh Wait" series
Really, when I've heard about it first , I was like "ah, come on, I am sure the journalists are just mis-reporting it; nobody is that dumb in their approach to system security
Well, they really were that dumb
Honestly, from the "blatant disregard of common sense", this is very, very high on the list ( many in security...
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IPs Now Private Info?
...dumb privacy' freaks" and conduct a wonderful experiment: how long those Europeans will survive without search engine "service?" But wait a few years, Google, before pulling a plug: it will make sure that Internet becomes truly indispensable
Also, what do I mean by " dumb privacy "? Am I anti-privacy? No (not anymore), this is where I...
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Stolen Penn State laptop had information on 677
...dumb, they wouldn't know the difference. It seems like most "bad guys' are dumb, so take that for what its worth
Lindstrom added that, as required by law, letters are being sent to individuals whose information was believed to be in the laptop
It's also on the National Crime Information Center database, so every police department in the...
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Anton Security Tip of the Day #14: More accesslog Fun: What Are You Not GETting?
...dumb (and so dumb, it's a classic
10.10.123.226 - - [12/Feb/2008:03:46:54 -0800] " POST / vti bin/shtml.exe/ vti rpc HTTP/1.1" 404 - "-" "MSFrontPage/6.0
10.10.123.226 - - [12/Feb/2008:03:46:55 -0800] " OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1" 200 20210 "-" "Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider Protocol Discovery
It is probably one of the ancient...
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My 2008 Security Predictions!
...dumb predictions since they are so pitifully obvious and have been going on for years already. Thus, I pile them in this section
So, client vs server exploitation: it started a few years back and will continue, for sure: more client vulnerabilities will be used to 0wn more desktops. Similarly, application vulnerabilities will beat platform...