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Friday Squid Blogging: Cuttlefish Embryos Can See

2008-06-13 16:39:56 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...eggs lie in an envelope full of black ink. But this clears as the embryos grow older, leaving them growing within translucent eggs These unborn cuttlefish also have fully developed eyes. That leads the researchers to conclude that the cuttlefish embryos must peer through their eggs, and learn to recognise their prey, a behaviour which will...
 
Tags: cuttlefish embryos, eggs, embryos, cuttlefish eggs lie, translucent eggs, unborn cuttlefish, black ink, recognise, envelope
 
 
 
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: Colossal Squid was a Lethargic Blob

2008-09-05 16:36:05 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...eggs," he says Her shape was likely to have affected her behaviour and ability to hunt. I can't imagine her jetting herself around in the water at any great speed, and she was too gelatinous to have been a fighting machine It's likely she was just blobbing around the seabed carrying her brood of eggs, living on dead fish, while her mate was...
 
Tags: gelatinous, giant gelatinous blob, fierce deep-sea predator, dead fish, eggs, incredibly bizarre, broader, thousands, shorter
 
 
 
 
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Putting all one's eggs in a single basket

2007-05-21 00:00:00 by Uriel Maimon in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
I was crawling my way through the series of tubes that is the internet, when I ran into this news article . It seems a certain large financial institution's consumers were hit by a banking Trojan . This financial institution had deployed tokens to all its online banking customers, but the Trojan managed to bypass this protection by combining two...
 
Tags: financial institution, trojan, news article, fraud techniques, protection, internet, tubes, tokens, hit
 
 
 
 
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Dense Computing = Less Security

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2008-02-12 03:56:57 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...eggs into one basket. Imagine having a Blade Server with 12 blades in it, each blade having 8 CPU cores fitting into about 15U of rack space. You now have 96 CPU's to drive your operating systems and applications. Wow! In the old days that would have been a mainframe of sorts or some Cray Super Computer! Or in more recent times that would...
 
Tags: blade server, blade server environments, single blade server, blade, blade server environment, environment, blade server switch, physical servers, servers
 
 
 
 
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Let's Not Let the Security Staff Become the SocGen Scapegoat

2008-02-25 17:47:53 by Posted By: Jay Heiser, Research VP in IT Leaders - Security and Risk Management
 
...eggs. It isn't a security failure; it is a governance failure. And it is not a problem unique to SocGen. This is the way financial services firms run their trading floors, and there should be no reason to feel that other banks aren't equally or even more vulnerable to such an incident If you want to douse the flames of the bonfire of the...
 
Tags: failure, governance failure, management, risk management, technology failure, bank management, staff, security staff, technology
 
 
 
 
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The 101 Coolest Easter Eggs Hidden in Your Software, DVDs and Video Games

2008-04-03 11:08:52 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
The Easter holiday may have already passed, but every day is an Easter-egg hunt for software, DVD and video-game sleuths. These nifty nuggets hold intentional hidden messages or features
 
Tags: easter holiday, easter-egg hunt, video-game sleuths, software, messages, features, dvd, day
 
 
 
 
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Fun Reading on Security - 3

2008-05-23 17:23:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...eggs " from LonerVamp . Welcome to the world where everybody is 0wned and nobody is talking! Think a little. Stop when you get to "... so it sounds like a good idea to be a blackhat today. should I switch sides Along the same line, Emergent Chaos on Blackhat Tax . Will it finally make security "a cost of doing business"? When I read stuff...
 
Tags: security, security evolution, security metrics, tjx security, people security business, fun, people, business, extreme fun
 
 
 
 
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Dense Computing = Less Security

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2008-02-12 03:56:57 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
...eggs into one basket. Imagine having a Blade Server with 12 blades in it, each blade having 8 CPU cores fitting into about 15U of rack space. You now have 96 CPU's to drive your operating systems and applications. Wow! In the old days that would have been a mainframe of sorts or some Cray Super Computer! Or in more recent times that would...
 
Tags: blade server, blade server environments, single blade server, blade, blade server environment, environment, blade server switch, physical servers, servers
 
 
 
 
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The "IT admin bad guy"? Not sure I buy it much..

2008-06-23 22:44:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...eggs or apples in the bunch, but overall I think they are ethically sound people This is like implying that since the guard to the safe has access to it, he/she might be taking advantage of that ability. My view is that the state of technology is (or was) such that there is no way around it - there had to be someone who has access However,...
 
Tags: admins, install technology, technology, recent survey, apples, bad eggs, access, sound people, privileges
 
 
 
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: Researching the Reproductive Habits of Giant Squids

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