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Halvar Flake Denied Entry to U.S. for Black Hat

2007-07-29 12:39:01 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...entry to the United States for his presentation at Black Hat. It's all over some stupid technicality of the contract with Black Hat being with him personally and not his company. In the process of interrogating him over it the DHS actually asked why the training he's doing couldn't be performed by an American citizen. I'm speechless. Flake...
 
Tags: black hat, flake, computer security research, entry, stupid technicality, reactionary stupidity, process, business visa, dhs
 
 
 
 
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Recession's effects on entry level communications salaries

2008-05-01 11:16:27 by Jessica Dempsey in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
Unlike MBAs, entry level communication engineer positions in UC and VoIP will not plummet in the face of recession
 
Tags: recession, unlike mbas, plummet, voip
 
 
 
 
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SDL and Web 2.0

2008-02-28 22:26:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...entry document.cookie If the wiki accepts this content from Eve, then anyone who looks at the wiki entry will have their browser cookie stolen and sent to Eve at evil.com. The cookie could potentially contain login credentials or other sensitive information, allowing Eve to impersonate her victim and essentially commit a form of identity...
 
Tags: web, site, chriss web site, mashups, web mashups, site cookies, persistent cross-site, cookies, benefit anyones web
 
 
 
 
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Logging Poll #8 Analysis: Needed Log Context

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2008-06-03 08:38:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
...entry on that ) , where all the logs are consolidated and analyzed together (it goes without saying that time is synchronized OR at least corrected across those logs). Indeed, if you are confused about a log and documentation is not available, reviewing "what else was/is going on?" is smart. Trusting log time stamps across many systems is...
 
Tags: log, recent log entry, strange log entry, log time stamps, log record, heavy log, log entry, complement logs, logs
 
 
 
 
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Five stolen Florida Department of Children and Families laptops

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2008-01-04 10:12:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...entry at the DCF office Evan] No signs of forced entry seems to imply that these laptops were stolen by someone who had legitimate access to the office (had keys) or that these laptops were stolen during business hours. You would think that it would be hard to walk out during business hours with five laptops the Florida Department of...
 
Tags: agency, law enforcement agency, law, confidential information, information, confidential personal information, law enforcement led, laptops, sensitive personal information
 
 
 
 
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Fuzz Testing at Microsoft and the Triage Process

2007-09-20 18:52:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...entry on Testing in the SDL in which he mentioned that many folks equate fuzz testing with security testing. While fuzz testing doesn't come close to describing how security testing is done at Microsoft it does happen to be one of our most scalable testing approaches to detecting program failures that may have security implications As Michael...
 
Tags: chance exceptions, exceptions, exception handler, exception, divide-by-zero exception, exception code, triage process, process, first-chance exceptions
 
 
 
 
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lcms speed

2008-01-15 18:01:23 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...entry cache cuts 40% from runtime - unless youre transforming large uniform blocks for which a one-entry cache is actually suitable Eliminating the general-purpose byte packing and unpacking functions and replacing them with inline encoding-specific equivalents cuts another 15% of runtime Compound savings: 49%, or 2x speedup, which is what...
 
Tags: one-entry cache cuts, one-entry cache, lcms, thread-safe memory, thread-local caches, cache comparisons, inline, equivalents cuts, lcms-1
 
 
 
 
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E-crime and Socioeconomic Factors

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2008-01-21 07:49:29 by HASH0x8b5217c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...entry obstacle such as advanced coding skills is gone, anyone can compile, generate and spread the samples, or used them for targeted attacks Will code malware for food" type of individuals don't really exist anymore A cat doesn't eat mice when it's hungry, it eats mice when it's already been fed, and therefore does it for prestige and...
 
Tags: malware, code malware, modern malware, malware generators, source tool, source, malware bot, source malware bots, e-crime
 
 
 
 
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More trustworthy election systems via SDL?

2008-02-04 23:34:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...entry points that an attacker could use to compromise software (code listening to network interfaces, code that accepts data from external sources, etc). The SDL requires development teams to both minimize attack surface in the software they are building and to consider attacks from each entry point on the attack surface to ensure that...
 
Tags: machine security concerns, security concerns, election systems, election, security, security researchers, election systems margin, margin, election management system
 
 
 
 
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