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Memo to Next President: How to Get Cyber Security Right

2008-08-07 15:45:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
Obama has a cyber security plan It's basically what you would expect : Appoint a national cyber security advisor, invest in math and science education, establish standards for critical infrastructure, spend money on enforcement, establish national standards for securing personal data and data-breach disclosure, and work with industry and...
 
Tags: security, security standards, improvements, security improvements, information security, cyber security plan, research, government research, national security
 
 
 
 
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Exaggerating Timing Attack Results Via GET Flooding

2007-12-10 04:04:33 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
A post by Super-Friez got me thinking of an actual useful application for GET request flooding this evening. Normally we only think of GET requests as a binary thing - one at a time or flooding. But what if we only launched enough GET requests with the intention of impacting server load, not bandwidth latency. So picking the right URL would be...
 
Tags: server load, server, requests, practical applications, time, bandwidth latency, url, times versus, difference
 
 
 
 
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My kids get XO's, I go to the command line

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2008-03-23 01:30:39 by HASH0x8aed260 in StillSecure, After All These Years
They finally came! My friend Raj Bhargava bought my two sons laptops from the OLPC project around the holiday season. Unfortunately due to the high demand, the project ran out of laptops and we have been waiting 3 months for them to arrive. They finally came on Friday. This was part of the buy one, donate one program so two other lucky children...
 
Tags: webkinz world, world, files, grep files, webkinz, flash files, webkinz site, store files, chat pretty quickly
 
 
 
 
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Flattery will get you nowhere

2008-04-04 18:00:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
What's in it for me? Now, if you ask me that's a perfectly reasonable response any time somebody asks you to give up your valuable time on a professional basis and participate in an event that is being sold to you on the benefits it will have for some large profit making organisation. I don't think it's an unreasonable question. I'm very...
 
Tags: valuable time, time, time job, industry colleagues, industry, organisation, international organisation, industry peers, elses business plan
 
 
 
 
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How Do I Get ISO27001 Certification?

2008-05-20 17:31:23 by Posted By: Carsten Casper, Research Director in IT Leaders - Security and Risk Management
 
Everybody has heard of the international standard ISO 27001 (or at least of its U.K. predecessor, BS7799-2). Now, more and more people wonder: How do I get a certificate for my organization? While in some countries (such as the U.K. and Germany), it's more common to get a certificate, in the U.S. it's not. Well, there are two ways to approach...
 
Tags: certification body, body, register, international register, body schedules, list, international standard iso, tv companies, iso
 
 
 
 
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Get Involved Now In Cloud Computing Discussions

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2008-07-24 10:55:19 by Stephanie Balaouras in Security & Risk Management
This week Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3) suffered a major outage that affected several websites that rely on the service. This is actually the second major outage for Amazon S3 this year. As a result of these and other reported outages, some companies will come to question whether they should pursue these new cloud-based services in the...
 
Tags: service, online backup service, online, potential service provider, service provider, online storage offerings, online records management, online backup, potential service outages
 
 
 
 
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Spamhaus litigation: Will spammers get a second wind?

2006-10-16 01:38:55 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
No doubt you have already heard about the court case against Spamhaus by emarketing firm e360Insight. Regardless of the merits of e360s claims, shutting down Spamhaus cannot be a good idea. Spamhaus currently has 650 million users (including many corporate users) and blocks 50 billion spam messages per day. The majority of these messages are...
 
Tags: spamhaus, spamhaus litigation events, spamhaus claims, spamhaus website, spamhaus registrar, spam, billion spam messages, e360insight, e360insight claims
 
 
 
 
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File Systems and thumb drives: Choosing between FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS to get a faster USB Flash Drive

2007-10-06 21:22:58 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
File Systems and thumb drives: Choosing between FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS to get a faster USB Flash Drive What file system should you choose to speed up your thumb drive? Read on
 
Tags: thumb, file systems, thumb drive, ntfs, fat32, fat16, file system, choose, speed
 
 
 
 
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Mets get Santana, Yankees and Red Sox thrilled

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2008-02-03 09:00:21 by HASH0x8bc0100 in StillSecure, After All These Years
Disclaimer: This is another nothing to do about security article. Today's Super Bowl Sunday so lets write about baseball. The other shoe has finally dropped on the biggest deal in baseball this off-season. They NY Mets have won the Johan Santana sweepstakes. The deal costs the Mets dearly. 4 young prospects, including 3 pitchers and 137.5...
 
Tags: sox, red sox, mets, yankees, santana, mets dearly, mets rotation, sox players, johan santana sweepstakes