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$13 million grant approved to fight cyber-terrorism

2008-05-13 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b148f8 in Network World on Security
 
Malaysia's Prime Minister has approved a $13 million grant to lay the foundation of IMPACT, a not-for-profit global organization to rally efforts from governments, the private sector and academia worldwide, against the growing threat of cyber-terrorism
 
Tags: million grant, not-for-profit global organization, prime minister, cyber-terrorism, academia worldwide, rally efforts, threat, sector, governments
 
 
 
 
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MSSP and NAC - true love or lust?

2008-05-22 10:51:56 by HASH0x8b2d488 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Grant Hartline, CTO of Mirage Networks, Mirage blog . Mirage is a competitor of StillSecure in the NAC marketplace, sometimes (actually we don't run into them very often) but I was happy to see them join the SBN. I have certainly taken shots at them in the past and am glad they are using the blogging medium to put their own point of view out...
 
Tags: nac, nac service, traditional nac, mssp, nac marketplace, mirage, service, mirage blog, mirage networks
 
 
 
 
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Giving SQL Injection the Respect it Deserves

2008-05-15 18:45:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...grant execute' permission on all stored procedures, and grant that permission only for the application domain group Ensure that this group is granted execute permissions only on your stored procedures. Do not grant any other permission on your database to any other user or group This is a great defense, because if the attacker attempts to...
 
Tags: sql, sql injection bug, sql injection requirements, sql injection attack, sql server, sql execute-only permission, malicious sql payload, sql injection, sql injection vulnerability
 
 
 
 
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Spending Money on the Wrong Security Threats

2008-02-19 07:18:32 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...grants can now be used to prepare for tornados. As a result, Putnam County is using its grant money to prepare for something else Weapons of mass destruction," Hyten said That's right -- weapons of mass destruction. This year, Putnam County spent most of its $58,000 homeland security grant to buy dozens of gas masks, boxes full of chemical...
 
Tags: putnam county, county, mass destruction, weapons, terrorism protection plan, rural county, emergency management director, homeland security grant, fifty miles west
 
 
 
 
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Help EFF Continue the Fight Against Warrantless Wiretapping!

2008-07-10 14:18:03 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...grant them retroactive immunity. They ran ridiculous fear-mongering attack ads against any politician who dared to oppose them. President Bush threatened to veto any bill that allowed EFFs lawsuit to continue. Yesterday, Congress completely capitulated to the Presidents threats and voted to let the telecoms off the hook. If the telecoms are...
 
Tags: eff, eff sued att, fight, warrantless, immunity, retroactive immunity, congress, congress completely, att
 
 
 
 
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Just so you know it is not me

2008-07-17 08:37:10 by HASH0x8b4f568 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Grant Hartline, CTO of Mirage Networks. Grant blogs and put up an article regarding the latest exchange between Richard and I. Both Richard and I commented. Check out Richards expective laced reply that I think shows just how unhinged he has become on this subject. Richard rambles and stumbles taking shots at anyone he can. I am telling you,...
 
Tags: richard, richard rambles, richard stiennon, richards recent attack, grant blogs, pavlovian dog, article, meantime based, grant hartline
 
 
 
 
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Intellectual Property- what is it and how do we secure it?

2007-12-29 06:43:45 by Editor in Security Links
 
...granted to an inventor, or to a person or organisation associated with the inventor, for a fixed period of time. These rights are granted in exchange for disclosure of an invention or idea Patents usually grant a period of exclusivity in which the inventor, or associated individuals/organisations, can prevent others from making, using,...
 
Tags: intellectual property, treaties, international patent treaties, major copyright agreements, agreements, copyright, rights, intellectual property rights, copyright legislation
 
 
 
 
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Making Threat Modeling Work Better

The Article has images
2007-10-17 00:23:53 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
...grant me the strength to change the things I can, the courage to accept what I cant, and the wisdom to know the difference, but, first, its too long, and second, if we started that way, it would be wrong to add beer or scotch
 
Tags: threat, process, process helps ensure, developers threat model, database design process, security, trust boundaries, threat model, security experts
 
 
 
 
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German activists move to block e-voting

2008-01-08 00:00:00 by HASH0x84709f4 in Network World on Security
 
A German computer club has asked a court to grant an injunction that would stop the use of electronic voting machines in state elections scheduled for later this month
 
Tags: german computer club, elections, court, stop, month, injunction, machines, electronic, grant
 
 
 
 
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Locked Call Boxes and Banned Geiger Counters

2008-01-18 07:44:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security