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Virtual Eyes

2007-08-01 19:25:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
Virtual Eyes Beware: free spyware and adware programs come with some of your favorite downloads The Internet is a wonderful tool. It works like a virtual web, connecting everyone within its network from all parts of the globe. With many salient features, the Internet has become so popular that virtually everyone around the world has access to...
 
Tags: spyware, anti-spyware downloads, spyware business, anti-spyware programs, spyware attacks, free spyware, internet, internet users pause, internet access
 
 
 
 
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HOV lane inside the Airport for 65,000

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2008-01-18 03:18:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
Amusement parks do it, so why can't airports? Scare people? No, allow them to pay a few dollars more to go to the head of the line. The company who is introducing the program to Washington Dulles and Reagan National airports in the Spring, is called "Verified Identity Pass" of New York Travelers who wish to speed their way through the airport...
 
Tags: airport, minimal yearly fee, yearly fee, reagan national airports, airports, shorter security wait, scare people, shorter security lines, travelers
 
 
 
 
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The Other Side of Life

2008-03-21 16:06:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
Hello everyone, Shawn Hernan here. I used to work on the SDL team, and I might have been a regular contributor to this space, but instead I joined the SQL Server security team. Ralph Hood, Microsoft SDL guru, asked me if I would contribute a post about Life on the other side, talking to what Ive learned about the SDL from this new perspective --...
 
Tags: team, product team, engineers, security engineers, security, balance security, security professional, test managers, test
 
 
 
 
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Surveillance and the use of social psychology

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2007-03-13 23:30:47 by Perry Carpenter in Security Renaissance
There is a lot of talk about both surveillance and psychology these days. The following photo and quote taken from Boing Boing The quote below is from a recent New York Times Magazine article describing a psychology experiment conducted by Newcastle University in which those conducting the experiments taped alternating photos above an on your...
 
Tags: coffee, honor coffee station, psychology, coffee station, psychology experiment, social psychology simultaneously, eyes poster, eyes, weeks
 
 
 
 
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Out of the Box

2007-07-19 00:00:00 by Uriel Maimon in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
I went on a date the other night. She was a "set-up" from a new acquaintance at the office who did not know me well enough not to set me up on dates. So here I am sitting across from this blonde beauty, in a tapas bar, and she is gorgeous: her soft golden tresses frame a pale heart-shaped face and her curves are paralleled only by the...
 
Tags: network device drivers, set-up, desperately bored, set, tapas bar, ice-blue eyes, tresses frame, blonde beauty, gorgeous
 
 
 
 
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The Trouble with Horsies

2007-03-12 00:00:00 by Uriel Maimon in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
I was sitting in the living room of my best friends' (G and his wife N) house the other night. They're a happening bohemian couple who live in the swinging, cool part of town, and they invited me over for a drink and "to have a talk" with me. The conversation started out light-hearted until they broached the subject of fixing me up on a date. I...
 
Tags: gift horse, mouth, worthy intellectual capacity, bohemian couple, fair stature, bit hesitant, maternal grandfather, lady, stare
 
 
 
 
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Russia's FSB vs Cybercrime

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2007-12-20 15:44:16 by HASH0x89b8758 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
In what looks like a populist move from my perspective, the FSB , the successor of the KGB, have "Pinch-ED" the authors of the DIY malware Pinch . A populist move mainly because the Russian Business Network is still 100% fully operational, the Storm Worm botnet was originally launched and is currently controlled by Russian folks, and the lack of...
 
Tags: pinch, pinch authors, diy malware pinch, authors, malware authors, malware, notorious pinch trojan, source malware, pinch-ing
 
 
 
 
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Highlighting the importance of data privacy... one person at a time

2008-01-11 09:29:07 by Jen Albornoz Mulligan in Security & Risk Management
 
I've seen an increasingly common trend for vendors or others to post sensitive personal information in public places, to prove that no harm will come, or that their solution will protect against any possible misuse. One person to do this recently, in response to the data loss by HM Revenue and Customs is Jeremy Clarkson , a TV broadcaster...
 
Tags: data, data protection laws, data breach, easy data, lost, protection, account, lost valuable time, bank account
 
 
 
 
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The Pseudo "Real Players"

2008-01-14 18:12:00 by HASH0x86ec1f0 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
 
What happened with the recent RealPlayer massive embedded malware attack ? Two of the main hosts are now, and the third one ucmal.com/0.js is strangely loading an iframe to ISC's blog in between the following 61.188.39.218/pingback.txt which was returning the following message during the last couple of hours " You're welcome for being saved from...
 
Tags: main campaign domains, domains, campaign, real players, attack, error, malware attack, error messages, realplayer
 
 
 
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: National Geographic Colossal Squid Photo

2008-01-25 16:40:04 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
It's also dead : Heavier than even giant squid , colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) have eyes as wide as dinner plates and sharp hooks on some of their suckers. The new specimen weighs in at an estimated 990 pounds (450 kilograms
 
Tags: colossal squid, giant squid, sharp hooks, heavier, pounds, weighs, hamiltoni, kilograms, suckers