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Information Security Reading List

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2008-05-16 17:12:39 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
...fields and understand their ideas. Here is a brief reading list to explore some concepts that are useful, but relatively unexplored in information security 1. Dhandho Investor by Mohnish Pabrai. I posted on how much I enjoyed this book in the past, and James McGovern did as well. Key thing here for us infosec types is to decouple risk and...
 
Tags: information security, security, information security books, books, web app security, information security literature, 21st century security, cyber security czar, software security
 
 
 
 
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Better exception reporting in ASP.NET

2008-08-01 20:30:05 by keith-brown in Security Briefs
 
...fields of the event. Indeed, its ProcessEvent method has a big list of checks if (eventRaised is WebBaseErrorEvent) AddErrorStuff(); if (eventRaised is WebAuthenticationSuccessAuditEvent) AddLogonStuff So it seemed like a better approach would be to write my own provider. I left the event log provider alone, and I wrote a custom email...
 
Tags: error event, event, provider, default event, email provider calls, event log provider, provider include, custom email provider, output stack traces
 
 
 
 
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A tip on using ASP.NET validation controls

2008-09-03 17:16:35 by keith-brown in Security Briefs
 
...fields are required. I would set the ErrorMessage to something vanilla like, "This field is required", or even something simpler like "*" (an asterisk) if I didn't have much room on the form to display more prose for an error A friend was recently testing a new feature that I'd built for our sales team and she had a hard time seeing the...
 
Tags: shorter message, message, inline error message, validation control element, control, inline, display inline, errormessage, errormessage property
 
 
 
 
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So Logically, If She Weighs The Same As A DuckShes A Witch!

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2008-09-18 14:59:47 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
...fields of knowledge is always advancing as they say. So perhaps probability theory is wrong somehow Im personally disinclined to put the blame here, primarily because I would think that there would be evidence from other fields (like Quantum Mechanics) that something is amiss waaaaay before it hit a field like economics Was There Error In The...
 
Tags: risk, financial risk, poor risk management, operational risk, outcome, exploit outcome, probability, qualitative models, models
 
 
 
 
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Not Your Father's Data Breach

2008-11-20 09:37:59 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...fields out. The long term focused farmer would rotate the crops and invest in things that build the value of the farm and soil over time. Investing in security on behalf of your customers is like this. The investment made in securing your customer's data build current and future value for them. Measuring the value of the customer and...
 
Tags: information, personal information, medical information, data, personal, personal medical records, medical records, systems, security systems
 
 
 
 
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U.N. Investigates Electromagnetic Terrorism

2008-12-02 13:00:00 by David Hambling in Wired Security
 
Scientists are still debating whether electromagnetic fields like the ones generated by your cellphone are bad for your health. The United Nations is pushing ahead with the idea that the fields are a "Potential Threat as a Terrorism Agent
 
Tags: electromagnetic fields, fields, potential threat, terrorism agent, health, cellphone, ahead, bad, nations
 
 
 
 
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Making Risk Measures Agree with Accounting 100%

2006-12-26 05:27:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...fields have different requirements (although they may be similar in some ways). It is true that a software can be made flexible enough to accommodate both requirements. Results may not be exact but good enough. But getting values to agree with the accounting system would result into more computing time due to the increase in inputs,...
 
Tags: risk, risk software, software, risk measurement, values, exact market values, exact, exact cent, cent
 
 
 
 
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The top 10 spam characteristics (#1-5)

2006-10-03 04:13:56 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...fields : Red Earth Software found this to be the most commonly found characteristic in current spam messages. The reason for this is that the recipients email address is hidden in the Bcc: field or X-receiver field, along with a substantial number of other email addresses. Spammers do this in order to conceal the fact that the mail was sent...
 
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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Google Text Ad Subversion

2007-12-20 16:02:12 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...fields into forms via malware to gain more information about your identity. Very clever, and easy to do This is different from when Googles ads were spreading malware but has the same basic purpose. Ultimately getting code on peoples machines is the best way to get control of the machine and ultimately make money off of it via spam, clicks,...
 
Tags: ads, googles ads, peoples ads, peoples machines, googles text ads, extra form fields, basic purpose, bad guys, future monetization
 
 
 
 
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Laptop stolen from Minnesota Department of Commerce vendor

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2007-12-29 00:01:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog