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Cyber espionage something to worry about?

2007-12-14 15:48:00 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...enables you to get information that may have taken years to collect through human intelligence, only in a matter of minutes, in a single download session. So its a no-brainer for many, the McAfee report estimates 120 countries engaged in web espionage operations, but most of these operations are not very sophisticated. But the Chinese...
 
Tags: computer networks, government computer networks, networks, government, chinese government, american government agencies, cyber espionage, china, government agencies
 
 
 
 
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Pushdo - Web Based Malware as Usual

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2007-12-19 18:01:44 by HASH0x89b80bc in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...enables the Pushdo author to limit distribution of any one of the malware loads from infecting users located in a particular country, or provides the ability to target a specfic country or countries with a specific payload This is an excerpt from a previous post on " Botnet Communication Platforms " including various graphs courtesy of...
 
Tags: malware, web based malware, pushdo, botnet masters circa, botnet masters, nuclear malware kit, botnet, pushdo author, botnet communication platforms
 
 
 
 
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Okay to Spam, Bad to Fight it in South Dakota

2008-01-17 21:19:46 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...enables spammers to operate with near legal impunity out of North Dakota. Great. So if you or someone you are investigating is based out of North Dakota - Id watch this lawsuit until this is settled. Talk about taking one giant leap backwards for mankind. So fierce is off limits to you North Dakotans
 
Tags: north dakota, judge, judge bob, giant leap backwards, district judge, cynthia rothe-seeger, zone transfer, public information, legal impunity
 
 
 
 
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Red Hat charged up in Asia

2007-12-04 03:39:00 by MCSE Boot Camp Courses Delhi India in MCSE Training Courses, MCSE Certification Courses, MCSE Courses Delhi India
 
...enables enterprise hardware and software vendors a standard platform on which to certify their products With Red Hat in Asia, they are eyeing into Asia pacific region with more anticipations. To their view major organizations are running mission-critical applications on a Linux platform and it is due to its wide-accepted reliability With...
 
Tags: red hat, linux, linux provider, linux platform, red hat linux, asia, red hat aims, asia pacific region, view major organizations
 
 
 
 
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More trustworthy election systems via SDL?

2008-02-04 23:34:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...enables someone to reverse engineer how individual voters voted by examining the aggregate tally of votes (which can be found on the Mobile Ballot Boxes MBB) in conjunction with the audit log. The MBB has mitigations in place to protect integrity (tampering) of votes, but doesnt appear to protect against information disclosure. The SDL...
 
Tags: machine security concerns, security concerns, election systems, election, security, security researchers, election systems margin, margin, election management system
 
 
 
 
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Throw away your digital picture frames

2008-02-19 03:36:49 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...enables Autorun. Sheesh! If you own one of these frames, SANS suggests that you take it to a friend who has a Mac or Linux box and plug it in there. Yeah, that's good advice; there exist no viruses for these operating systems, correct? It's irrelevant which operating system you're using -- if you run with full privileges, you'll get 0wn3d...
 
Tags: frames, picture frames, trojan, generic trojan, digital photo frames, trojan horse, virus apparently, malware, windows
 
 
 
 
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A new world order of computing - an analogy of Microsoft and the US

2008-02-19 00:24:05 by HASH0x8baa6ec in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...enables so much Mac adoption) between Microsoft and the US. Like the US, about 10 or 15 years ago Microsoft was officially declared a monopoly. It was the one true superpower of IT. Yeah, Larry Ellison and Scott McNealy could tweak Bill's nose and drive fast cars, boats and planes, but lets face it they were midgets compared to the Redmond...
 
Tags: world, microsoft, crazy world, multi-polar world, ago microsoft, century, 21st century, drive fast cars, unipolar american hegemony
 
 
 
 
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A new world order of computing - an analogy of Microsoft and the US

2008-02-18 14:27:32 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...enables so much Mac adoption) between Microsoft and the US. Like the US, about 10 or 15 years ago Microsoft was officially declared a monopoly. It was the one true superpower of IT. Yeah, Larry Ellison and Scott McNealy could tweak Bill's nose and drive fast cars, boats and planes, but lets face it they were midgets compared to the Redmond...
 
Tags: world, microsoft, crazy world, multi-polar world, ago microsoft, century, 21st century, drive fast cars, unipolar american hegemony
 
 
 
 
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Warming the cold boot a bit of braggin from BitArmor

2008-02-28 13:17:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...enables anyone, without custom-built and expensive resources, to gain access to the system. Rich Mogull has a good blog on how one should think through the ramifications This is scary news and rightfully so. We have seen encryption vendors approach this differently The dont-worry, be happy approach: Some claim the attack is so esoteric, the...
 
Tags: approach, happy approach, disk encryption products, disk encryption, complexity approach, bitarmor, disk encryption technologies, researchers, princeton researchers