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SDL and the XSS Filter

2008-08-27 15:35:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...Filter feature in IE8 I asked some other members of the SDL blog team why arent we talking about the new XSS Filter feature on the SDL blog? Bryan and Jeremy said something like thats a mitigation that only applies to specific clients and a subset of attacks. So we didnt cross-reference IEs XSS Filter post on the SDL blog at the time....
 
Tags: xss, xss filter, xss vulnerabilities, xss led, anti-xss library, xss attack, xss attacks, attacks, xss filter remembers
 
 
 
 
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ESoft spam filter goes mobile

2008-06-19 00:00:00 by HASH0x84736d8 in Network World on Security
 
Security appliance developer eSoft has updated its e-mail gateway with the ability for users to spam-file or whitelist e-mails from any device, including a BlackBerry or smartphone. Previously, only Outlook users could train the gateway's Bayesian spam-filter
 
Tags: gateway, users, e-mail gateway, outlook users, bayesian spam-filter, whitelist e-mails, smartphone, blackberry, spam-file
 
 
 
 
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Internet Censorship

2008-04-07 05:00:32 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...filtered. Give someone access to the Internet, and they have access to everything. Governments that relied on censorship to control their citizens were doomed Today, things are very different. Internet censorship is flourishing. Organizations selectively block employees' access to the Internet. At least 26 countries -- mainly in the Middle...
 
Tags: internet censorship, censorship, internet censorship measures, enable internet censorship, internet, prevent anonymous internet, internet access, global internet, net interprets censorship
 
 
 
 
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Supporting CEP with Solace Content Routers

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2008-09-06 11:42:30 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
...filter, route, transform and secure very large volumes of events in real time and with minimal processing overhead. Solace uses leading-edge FPGA, ASIC and network processor technology to increase throughput and lower latency of event processing. Applications such as fraud detection, algorithmic trading, compliance, insider trade monitoring,...
 
Tags: solace, solace systems, events, raw events, event, solace architecture, network processor technology, select events, applications
 
 
 
 
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Supporting your family, friends, and neighbors

2008-02-13 17:45:40 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...filter thats built into Internet Explorer 7 Reduce the amount of spam in your e-mail Use good passwords online The phishing filter in Internet Explorer 7 includes a long list of known phishing sites, and it warns users if a site theyre visiting is on the list or exhibits characteristics typical of phishing sites. The filter can communicate...
 
Tags: suspicious e-mail message, mail, home computers defense, home computers, e-mail, home, web mail, windows live mail, site
 
 
 
 
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Major ISPs step up to curb child porn

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2008-06-10 05:50:00 by HASH0x8b04530 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...filter content in a private companies hands, we entrust them to filter only what is illegal. But it would be naive to think they won't filter for their own best interests either While I applaud this step and give Andrew Cuomo credit for bringing the ISPs to heel, I think you have to put some process in place to make sure that legitimate and...
 
Tags: sites, illegal sites, andrew cuomo, cuomo, isps, andrew cuomo credit, child porn, porn, illegal
 
 
 
 
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The top 10 spam characteristics (#1-5)

2006-10-03 04:13:56 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...filters, spammers include an image in their message that cannot be filtered for words. In addition, upon opening the email message the image is downloaded from the spammers website. Since each message contains a unique ID, the spammer will know exactly which recipient has viewed the mail. This indicates which email addresses are live and can...
 
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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Diminutive XSS Worm Contest Drama and Status Update

2008-01-06 17:34:38 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...filter evasion, which weve already researched to death, payloads, which we have also researched heavily and lastly site specific code, which really is uninteresting to me, unless I were trying to help out that company in particular solve an existing problem. So the goal is to remove those things and focus on the actual XSS propagation, for...
 
Tags: browser companies, browser, browser security arena, code, people visit, people, worm code, diminutive xss worm, xss worm
 
 
 
 
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Phishers, Spammers, and Malware Authors Clearly Consolidating

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2007-12-09 21:14:53 by HASH0x89fa6a4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...filtered on the gateway perimeter by default, especially executables. Even the first round of Storm Worm malware in January, 2007 , concluded that email attachments are not longer as effective as they used to be, and therefore migrated to spamming malware embedded links exploiting outdated vulnerabilities How such type of targeted malware...
 
Tags: malware, malware attachments, malware attack, malware authors, hand malware authors, spammers, modern malware, storm worm malware, emails courtesy
 
 
 
 
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Providing real security to customers

2007-02-17 07:49:58 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security