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Playing With Homemade Explosives

2007-08-07 17:30:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...experiments were done by an idiot. None of it is legal. Im lucky to have my fingers and some of the hair I lost never grew back. Scar tissue isnt as strong as regular tissue I remember one of the first little experiments I did as a kid involved the lawn mowers gas can. Several attempts to use gasoline to replicate those awe inspiring car...
 
Tags: gas, lawn mowers gas, tank, cars gas tank, time, time delay fuse, terrorist, empty gas, recent terrorist plots
 
 
 
 
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Our Inherent Capability for Evil

2008-04-16 06:40:29 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...experiment, published in Zimbardo's book The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, record in terrifying detail the way reality slipped away from the participants. On the first day Sunday it is all self-conscious play-acting between college buddies. On Monday the prisoners start a rebellion, and the guards clamp down, using...
 
Tags: prisoners, fellow prisoners, zimbardo, tells zimbardo, dangerous prisoners, prisoners start, day, day sunday, previous day
 
 
 
 
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How to Sell Security

2008-05-26 05:57:29 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...experiment that illustrates Prospect Theory. Take a roomful of subjects and divide them into two groups. Ask one group to choose between these two alternatives: a sure gain of $500 and 50 percent chance of gaining $1,000. Ask the other group to choose between these two alternatives: a sure loss of $500 and a 50 percent chance of losing...
 
Tags: security, loss, risky loss, risky larger loss, gain, risky larger gain, security purchase, directly, security directly
 
 
 
 
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BlackEnergy DDoS Bot Web Based C&Cs

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2008-02-12 18:46:35 by HASH0x8b1c6c4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...experiment, proving that malicious parties don't even take the basic precautions to camouflage their ongoing migration to the web for the purpose of botnet and malware kits C&Cs ? Let's experiment wi the BlackEnergy DDoS bot , and prove it's the same situation. What's the BlackEnergy DDoS bot anyway BlackEnergy is an HTTP-based botnet used...
 
Tags: ddos, bot, blackenergy ddos bot, blackenergy, ddos extortion, ddos attacks, traditional irc bot, irc, botnet master
 
 
 
 
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Confidential Texas A & M personnel file exposed on the Internet

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2008-02-18 23:51:43 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Experiment Station, respectively -- and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Number Affected 3,000 Types of Data Names and Social Security numbers Breach Description A file containing sensitive personal information belonging to current and former employees of three Texas A&M organizations was inadvertently uploaded to a server that...
 
Tags: texas, sensitive personal information, personal information, texas agrilife extension, file, texas agrilife research, information, texas cooperative extension, confidential information
 
 
 
 
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Is Microsofts SDL Working?

2008-05-16 11:05:09 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...experiment may need to be set up using some arbitrary project created solely for the experiment. Alternatively, Microsoft could measure the differences in development skills after an acquisition and during the transition to SDL-trained developers. Or a final option is to conduct a private benchmarking exercise where the effectiveness is...
 
Tags: sdl, sdl efforts, sdl effectiveness, microsoft, microsoft surely, specific microsoft platform, effectiveness, effectiveness level, microsoft suggests
 
 
 
 
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Is Microsoft???s SDL Working?

2008-05-16 11:05:09 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...experiment may need to be set up using some arbitrary project created solely for the experiment. Alternatively, Microsoft could measure the differences in development skills after an acquisition and during the transition to SDL-trained developers. Or a final option is to conduct a private benchmarking exercise where the effectiveness is...
 
Tags: sdl, microsoft, sdl efforts, sdl effectiveness, microsoft surely, specific microsoft platform, microsoft suggests, effectiveness, effectiveness level
 
 
 
 
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Relentless Reflection - What it Means in Risk Management

2008-08-26 17:55:40 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...Experiment (D), Analysis (Check), and Act (Revise/New Hypothesis, etc). Well then as such, the Hypothesis creation involves creating a model or creating an expected outcome for data using the currently accepted model So in our industry there is an opportunity for Relentless Reflection in both the Observation and Hypothesis (Plan) creation...
 
Tags: risk management, risk, call risk management, call, relentless reflection, relentless, reflection, risk analyst, risk decision
 
 
 
 
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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
 
...experiment in the form of a new comment line: +1-415-830-5439 Right now it's just a computer-generated voice but I'll add in my own prompts soon. Interestingly, this number is also reachable via some other phone numbers Skype: +99000936 9992002622 FWD: **86919992002622 SIP: sip:9992002622@sip.voxeo.net And while we are NOT going to switch...
 
Tags: comment, standard comment line, comment line, wrong comment line, call, call control xml, net call-in, net, fax message
 
 
 
 
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New Audio comment line number - +1-415-830-5439 (and ditching K7.net)

2007-12-19 12:01:39 by Dan York in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
...experiment in the form of a new comment line: +1-415-830-5439 Right now it's just a computer-generated voice but I'll add in my own prompts soon. Interestingly, this number is also reachable via some other phone numbers Skype: +99000936 9992002622 FWD: **86919992002622 SIP: sip:9992002622@sip.voxeo.net And while we are NOT going to switch...