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Fish, Subprime Mortgages, and Data Storage

2007-11-02 00:00:00 by Ari Juels in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...Egypt counseled Polykrates to throw away some possession of great value, lest a surplus of good fortune bring him tragedy. Heeding this advice, Polykrates pitched his most prized possession, an emerald ring, into the sea. Several days later, a fisherman brought Polykrates a fish as tribute. When the fish was cut open, it was discovered to...
 
Tags: fish, herodotus tells, herodotus, story, possession, parable, tragedy, emerald, island
 
 
 
 
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Fourth Undersea Cable Failure in Middle East

2008-02-05 20:28:45 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Bahrain. The third one is between the UAE and Oman. The fourth one connected Qatar and the UAE. This one may not have been cut, but taken offline due to power issues The first three have been blamed on ships' anchors, but there is some dispute about that. And that's two in the...
 
Tags: offline, international herald tribune, lost internet connectivity, offline due, persian gulf, iran, qatar, saudi arabia, fourth
 
 
 
 
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India's VSNL helps restore Internet after cable break

2008-02-05 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b4dc14 in Network World on Security
 
Last week, when undersea cable systems were ruptured in the Middle East, off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, it caused widespread Internet and telecom outage across much of the region and in Asia
 
Tags: undersea cable systems, middle east, widespread internet, telecom outage, coast, week, region, alexandria, egypt
 
 
 
 
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NGO Security Scenario #23 - Accidents Happen

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2008-03-17 04:17:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
...Egypt. You hear car horns honking outside and look out the window. A broken down piece of road construction equipment is being moved off the street. Click the play button to see what happens next The dark colored car belongs to the Country Director who is in a meeting with her staff. What would you do next? Share your thoughts by...
 
Tags: security assessment report, road construction equipment, country director, car horns, car belongs, play button, country office, piece, window
 
 
 
 
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Internet Censorship

2008-04-07 05:00:32 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Egypt does not engage in technical Internet filtering; instead, its laws discourage the publishing and reading of certain content -- it has even jailed people for their online activities The second half of Access Denied consists of detailed descriptions of Internet use, regulations and censorship in eight regions of the world, and in each of...
 
Tags: internet censorship, censorship, internet censorship measures, enable internet censorship, internet, prevent anonymous internet, internet access, global internet, net interprets censorship
 
 
 
 
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Student Sentenced to 15 Years for YouTube Terror Video

2008-12-18 22:46:00 by David Kravets in Wired Security
 
A 27-year-old Florida university student from Egypt was sentenced to 15 years on Thursday for posting a YouTube video on how to transform a a remote-control toy car from Walmart into a bomb detonator. The defendant, Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, said the United States was "vile
 
Tags: remote-control toy car, ahmed abdellatif sherif, youtube video, bomb detonator, walmart, transform, egypt, vile, thursday
 
 
 
 
 
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Sergey Zarubin, 31yo
CISSP, CCSP
Moscow, Russia