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The 5 Most Dangerous Security Myths: Myth #5

2009-01-08 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b404c4 in Network World on Security
 
You've cleared away most of the web of myth. You know that today's evil viruses and other malware exist to make money, that antivirus alone is no guarantee of safety, and that neither is your own good sense (as important as that is). And you know that some of the best protection comes from keeping your software and your operating system up-to-date
 
Tags: myth, malware exist, evil viruses, protection, system, money, safety, web, software
 
 
 
 
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The Five Most Dangerous Security Myths: Myth #5

2009-01-08 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b40a34 in Network World on Security
 
You've cleared away most of the web of myth. You know that today's evil viruses and other malware exist to make money, that antivirus alone is no guarantee of safety, and that neither is your own good sense (as important as that is). And you know that some of the best protection comes from keeping your software and your operating system up-to-date
 
Tags: myth, malware exist, evil viruses, protection, system, money, safety, web, software
 
 
 
 
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Article: Analytics Brief: Securing The New Data Center

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2008-01-07 05:28:32 by Editor in Security Links
...exist, and exploits will be created. All the major players report that building a secure hypervisor is a top priority. VMwares CTO, Mendel Rosenblum, goes so far as to boast that no security holes will show up in VMwares ESX product because of design flawsof course, that leaves open the possibility of implementation errors. Unfortunately, the...
 
Tags: virtual environment, environment, virtual appliances range, virtual appliances, security, tools, security tools, develop security, security holes
 
 
 
 
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Communicating about risk - part 1

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2008-05-05 18:12:14 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is
...exists when the following characteristics co-exist Threat event frequency is low Vulnerability is high Probable loss magnitude is significant When these conditions exist, the low loss event frequency is driven solely by the low threat event frequency. In other words, were not actively managing loss event frequency; were just trusting to luck....
 
Tags: risk, effective, cost-effective risk management, fragile condition exists, condition, unstable condition, risk qualifiers, risk condition, risk chart perspective
 
 
 
 
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Common Criteria and answering the question 'Is it Safe'

2007-12-20 16:57:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...exist for many categories of products (Mobile devices and instant messaging applications for example). 2) An evaluation is not internationally required to evaluate a given product against a PP (although the US has such policies). The former would be a solvable problem if industry were willing to step in and help lead creation of protection...
 
Tags: criteria, fails, common criteria fails, common criteria, common criteria arguably, common, arguably, arguably deficient, security
 
 
 
 
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The STRIDE per Element Chart

2007-10-29 23:06:46 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...exist in the chart. Thats not to say it doesnt exist. If theres an elevation of privilege against an external entity, well, by definition, we cant fix it. Its external. So is there value in calling out that risk in threat modeling? Sometimes there might be Breach Disclosure Laws Sometimes organizations lose control of data thats been...
 
Tags: element chart, chart, stride, specific, specific threats, cve data, data, stride chart, threats
 
 
 
 
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Throw away your digital picture frames

2008-02-19 03:36:49 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...exist Even more amazing Mocmex] isn't the only piece of malware involved. Deborah Hale of Sans said the researchers also found four other, older Trojans on each frame, which may serve as markers for botnets -- networks of infected PCs that are remotely controlled by hackers There is W32.Rajump, which deposits the same piece of malware that...
 
Tags: frames, picture frames, trojan, generic trojan, digital photo frames, trojan horse, virus apparently, malware, windows
 
 
 
 
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Application Due Care

2008-02-18 08:55:12 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...exist in an environment. This brings up several considerations such as operating system, virual operating system(such as VMware), other applications that co-exist with this application, CPU hardware, storage, network and lastly whether the application runs behind the firewall or in the DMZ It is overstatement to say that the application built...
 
Tags: application, application due care, development methodology, methodology, application runs, application exist, application security, development, secure application
 
 
 
 
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Vulnerability Events

2008-03-30 17:20:05 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is
 
...existed all along, but in order for that condition to actually BE vulnerable, the capability to exploit the condition had to exist. And within the context of a human threat community, capability requires two things: knowledge and resources. Consequently, until the condition was known to be exploitable, it couldnt be leveraged and wasnt a...
 
Tags: vulnerability, relative term, term, loss events occur, loss events, vulnerability events matter, loss, actual loss, relative term requires
 
 
 
 
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Implementing the Event Cloud

2008-04-13 14:01:56 by Greg Reemler in The Complex Event Processing Blog