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Security vendors report 'critical' Trojan exploit for Mac

2008-06-20 00:00:00 by HASH0x8472e50 in Network World on Security
 
SecureMac and Intego are separately reporting the existence of a new security threat for Mac, claiming the existence of multiple variants of a new Trojan horse in the wild that affects Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5
 
Tags: mac, affects mac, existence, trojan horse, multiple variants, security threat, securemac, wild, separately
 
 
 
 
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Are Stolen Credit Card Details Getting Cheaper?

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2008-07-15 15:36:12 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...existence of "the invisible hand of the underground market" and centralized power to increase the supply or decrease it to boost prices for the stolen credit card details, also indicating the existence of underground cartels putting everyone in a "price taker" position The basics of demand and supply for anything underground will always...
 
Tags: price, average market price, market price, credit card, credit card details, details, market, competitive market equilibrium, credit card basis
 
 
 
 
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Boston Court's Meddling With 'Full Disclosure' Is Unwelcome

2008-08-21 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...existence of a vulnerability but not the details. Vendors responded by denying the security holes' existence, or calling them just theoretical. It wasn't until full disclosure became the norm that vendors began consistently fixing vulnerabilities quickly. Now that vendors routinely patch vulnerabilities, researchers generally give them...
 
Tags: computer security improves, security improves, computer security, security, mit security researchers, security devices, security holes, disclosure, security properly
 
 
 
 
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Full Disclosure and the Boston Farecard Hack

2008-08-26 06:04:49 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...existence of a vulnerability but not the details. Vendors responded by denying the security holes' existence, or calling them just theoretical. It wasn't until full disclosure became the norm that vendors began consistently fixing vulnerabilities quickly. Now that vendors routinely patch vulnerabilities, researchers generally give them...
 
Tags: computer security improves, security improves, computer security, security, mit security researchers, security devices, security holes, disclosure, security properly
 
 
 
 
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Anti-Debugging Series - Part I

2008-12-02 20:56:25 by Tyler Shields in Zero in a bit
 
...existence or operation of a debugger. From single line calls such as IsDebuggerPresent() and CheckRemoteDebugger() to slightly more complex methods including debugger detaching and CloseHandle() checks. These methods are generally trivial to add to an existing code base and many can even be implemented in as few as two or three lines...
 
Tags: process execution breaks, execution, process, methods query process, hardware breakpoint, hardware, process information, target process, methods
 
 
 
 
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The top 10 spam characteristics (#1-5)

2006-10-03 04:13:56 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...existence of these characteristics (and more) and use these to determine whether the message should be identified as spam. Some characteristics are strong indicators that a message is spam, others really cannot be taken into account at all since they can also exist in legitimate emails. A system checking for spam characteristics can be very...
 
Tags: spam, spam characteristics, top spam characteristics, spam characteristic, spam mails, avoid spam messages, html comment tags, comment tags, flag spam correctly
 
 
 
 
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Storage Innovation Ahead

2006-03-26 21:47:08 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...existence of cheap and presumed-reliable storage services such as Amazon S3 will cause a burst of innovation in personal and corporate storage options. A particularly good fit: content-addressible storage schemes such as plan9 venti and git , that offer frugal use of bandwidth (important when metered), and attractive features like version...
 
Tags: plan9 venti, storage options, software developer, version snapshots, storage schemes, innovation, brad fitzpatrick, offer frugal, attractive features
 
 
 
 
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New Audio comment line number - +1-415-830-5439 (and ditching K7.net)

2007-12-19 11:03:29 by HASH0x89eb6f0 in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
...existence. If you don't get a call in 30 days, you lose your number. This impacts podcasters, especially, because our shows may live on out there on the Internet for an incredibly long time. You can still download Blue Box podcast #1 from two years ago which has the wrong comment line included (in fact, it is 2 or 3 numbers ago). So losing...
 
Tags: comment, standard comment line, comment line, wrong comment line, call, call control xml, net call-in, net, fax message
 
 
 
 
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The Invisible Blackhat SEO Campaign

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2008-01-08 17:23:47 by HASH0x84733a0 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...existence of hidden links that were embedded on each and every post on it, apparently due to a compromise. The blackhat SEO links invisible embedded within the blog's posts on the other hand point to a compromised account at the Texas A&M University ( aero.tamu.edu/people/raktim ), as you can see in the screenshot. Moreover, there's also a...
 
Tags: blackhat seo campaign, campaign, gov url, mdc, blackhat seo pages, blogs, gov, copies confirm, fresh afield
 
 
 
 
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New Audio comment line number - +1-415-830-5439 (and ditching K7.net)