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Fish, Subprime Mortgages, and Data Storage

2007-11-02 00:00:00 by Ari Juels in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...fisherman brought Polykrates a fish as tribute. When the fish was cut open, it was discovered to contain the fatal ring. (Polykrates was, of course, brutally murdered soon afterward.) Herodotus's story (and book) was crafted as a parable about hubris. It is also a good parable about banking--and more generally about risk
 
Tags: fish, herodotus tells, herodotus, story, possession, parable, tragedy, emerald, island
 
 
 
 
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To Catch a Phish: Practice, Practice, Practice

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2008-02-14 18:31:00 by Mike Rothman in Security Mike's Blog
...fish (no pun intended), as opposed to just giving you a fish But you can get started, while I'm still working on the Security Mike content. CRN does a nice job in highlighting 10 phishing scams. The bad guys have moved on from these, so the likelihood that you'll get this very attack is small. But the techniques don't change that often. So...
 
Tags: security mike content, security mike, bad guys, email, guys, security research friends, strange email, techniques, fraud techniques
 
 
 
 
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Shimel's theory of security company relativity or why there are so damn many security companies

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2008-04-10 22:08:39 by HASH0x8b4586c in StillSecure, After All These Years
...fish eat the little fish. Everyone says we are going to see more consolidation and acquisitions in the time ahead. However, I would say recently that consolidation via acquisition is slowing down and many of those acquisitions are in fact at fire sale prices. Too many companies are stuck in a purgatory of a slow death by a thousand little...
 
Tags: companies, security companies, company, security company relativity, security company, revenue, revenue level, revenue levels, million
 
 
 
 
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Shimel's theory of security company relativity or why there are so damn many security companies

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2008-04-10 20:16:32 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...fish eat the little fish. Everyone says we are going to see more consolidation and acquisitions in the time ahead. However, I would say recently that consolidation via acquisition is slowing down and many of those acquisitions are in fact at fire sale prices. Too many companies are stuck in a purgatory of a slow death by a thousand little...
 
Tags: companies, security companies, company, security company relativity, security company, revenue, revenue level, revenue levels, million
 
 
 
 
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SANS Webcast: Security for Web Services and SOA

2008-08-04 11:29:54 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...fish and teaching people to fish. Look at Fortify's vulncat site which has a Taxonomy of Coding Errors .Fortify's Seven (plus one) pernicious kingdoms are Input Validation and Representation API Abuse Security Features Time and State Errors Code Quality Encapsulation Environment These vulns are then integrated to find security bugs in a...
 
Tags: web services, web, security issues, issues, security, web services security, soa security issues, soa, security improvements
 
 
 
 
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Review of My 2007 Security Predictions: Too Wimpy

2007-12-23 15:46:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...fish start to swim upstream :-) - this prediction started from me reading Richard's piece " NAC is Fighting the Last War " which struck me like a Strength 15 Lighting Bolt. Indeed, narrowly defined NAC largely targets worm infections (and will thus lose relevance) while broadly defined NAC starts to sound like having a well-run network (which...
 
Tags: status check iii, status check, status check viii, security, security predictions, status check vii, check, predictions, status
 
 
 
 
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Don't Try This At Home

2007-11-05 21:52:28 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...fish in a blender . Custom mitigations always result in a need for expert analysis, by someone who can draw on years of experience about what goes wrong. Ideally, that expert works for you, and looks at the idea long before its implemented never mind shipping
 
Tags: mitigations, custom mitigations, security mitigations, innovative mitigations, software projects, software, expert, design, design principles
 
 
 
 
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Security Marketing Spinning Further Out of Control

2008-02-07 21:37:49 by mcurphey in Mark Curphey - SecurityBuddha.com
 
In the UK we have the Advertising Standards Authority. If someone makes a claim in an advert, they need to be able to back it up. If you say Fish Fingers are rich in Omega 3 then be prepared to prove it. If you have a magic face wand that removes wrinkles then make sure
 
Tags: fish fingers, removes wrinkles, standards authority, magic, claim, prove, wand, omega, rich
 
 
 
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Beaks for Artificial Limbs?

2008-04-04 16:38:29 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...fish for dinner, but the hard material doesn't press or rub directly against the squid's softer tissues Herbert Waite, a professor in the university's department of molecular, cellular & developmental biology and co-author of the paper, said such graduated materials could have broad applications in biomedical materials Lots of useful...
 
Tags: squid, squid beaks, biomedical materials, biomedical, materials, medical materials, hard materials occur, beak, squid beak