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Eight Steps to Responsible Surfing

2008-08-07 00:30:41 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
Web threats and attacks will continue to evolve, but surfers can protect themselves against the majority of malicious code by following eight different steps. To provide the greatest degree of security, surfers cannot rely entirely on technology, and should also address the behavioral issues that are most likely to create risky situations...
 
Tags: mainstream web sites, sites, adult internet sites, web sites, web surfers, surfers, surfers disable, security, computer security
 
 
 
 
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Mozilla issues eight patches for Firefox browser

2008-12-17 05:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Mozilla issued eight patches for its Firefox browser, three of which fix critical problems that could allow an attacker to take over a user's PC
 
Tags: firefox browser, fix critical, mozilla, patches, user, attacker
 
 
 
 
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Firefox issues eight patches for Web browser

2008-12-17 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b5d6d4 in Network World on Security
 
Mozilla has issued eight patches for its Firefox Web browser, three of which fix problems classified as critical
 
Tags: firefox web browser, patches, critical, fix, mozilla
 
 
 
 
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Links for 2008-04-03 [del.icio.us]

2008-04-04 00:00:00 by Editor in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
Information Security as Insurance Security Thoughts: Information Security, Governance, Compliance and Safety Belts I have seen a lot of complaints about PCI and SOX etc etc in the same way that people complain about "self protection" laws like safety belt laws The Evolution of Compliance Technology - Sarbox Survival Guide William Vambenepes blog...
 
Tags: security, security professional, tenable network security, compliance, compliance reasons, information security, compliance mistakes, compliance technology, safety belt laws
 
 
 
 
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Password Expiration: Like Margarine and Water?

2008-05-27 00:00:00 by Dr. Ari Juels in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
We often swallow ideas that we needn't or shouldn't. Take the onetime urging of nutritionists to substitute margarine for butter in the cause of cardiovascular health. When this advice was first circulating, most margarines contained high quantities of trans fats, concoctions that have turned out to be so harmful - to the heart, among other...
 
Tags: water, margarine, password expiration, 8x8 water doctrine, cardiovascular health, advice, substitute margarine, similar dogma applies, health
 
 
 
 
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Mashup of the Titans

2008-06-25 17:29:25 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
Information Security - an Oxymoron for the information age Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question. e. e. cummings or why i am with Gelernter This is a mashup of Saltzer & Schroeder's famous information security principles with David Gelernter's Manifesto The premise of this mashup is to examine the paper by Saltzer and...
 
Tags: protection mechanisms, protection mechanisms correctly, information security, information, implements protection mechanisms, information travels, information security people, protection, potential information path
 
 
 
 
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Kip Hawley Responds to My Airport Security Antics

2008-10-23 06:24:17 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Kip Hawley, head of the TSA, has responded to my airport security penetration testing , published in The Atlantic Unfortunately, there's not really anything to his response. It's obvious he doesn't want to admit that they've been checking ID's all this time to no purpose whatsoever, so he just emits vague generalities like a frightened squid...
 
Tags: security, airport, effective security measures, dublin airport, airport security penetration, security checkpoints, kip hawley, tsa, tsa identifies
 
 
 
 
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VC and IPO Outlook

2008-11-07 09:07:37 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
Forbes interviews venture capitalist Charlie Harris. He is the Chairman of Harris and Harris (NASDAQ: TINY ) a venture capital fund which is focused on funding nanotech companies. He is bullish looking forward from today for a couple of reasons 1. We have an eight year back log of good companies and ideas due to a poor IPO environment, we have...
 
Tags: nanotech companies, companies, nanotech, fund, venture capital fund, poor ipo environment, dislocation equals opportunity, clean tech theme, recent financial crisis
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft Fixes 8-year Old Design Flaw in SMB

2008-11-12 21:11:12 by Christien Rioux in Zero in a bit
 
With regard to the recent Patch Tuesday fix, there has been an issue fixed regarding NTLM Relaying, that has been around for more than eight years In 2000, I wrote an advisory about NTLM relaying ( CVE-2000-0834 ). The problem turned out to be significantly larger than I originally suggested in the advisory. The attack extended to other...
 
Tags: ntlm protocol, ntlm, general-purpose credential theft, issue fixed, significantly larger, attack, dead cow, sir dystic, smbrelay tool
 
 
 
 
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America's Next Top Hash Function Begins

2008-11-20 02:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
You might not have realized it, but the next great battle of cryptography began this month. It's not a political battle over export laws or key escrow or NSA eavesdropping, but an academic battle over who gets to be the creator of the next hash standard Hash functions are the most commonly used cryptographic primitive, and the most poorly...
 
Tags: hash function, sha, sha-3, algorithms, cool algorithms, sha family, nist held, unlike encryption algorithms, nist