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The bad guys will use BitLocker, too

2007-07-13 18:03:36 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...guys would find out how to exploit the bypass -- meaning that BitLocker becomes completely useless for you Here's a similar example: some people have advocated that cell phones be disabled in certain public places (movie theaters, tunnels, sports stadiums, and so on) because terrorists might use them to remotely trigger bombs. What a bunch of...
 
Tags: bad guys, guys, law enforcement, beneficial, bitlocker, destroy beneficial utility, conduct forensic analysis, technology, bypass
 
 
 
 
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Testing Signature-based Antivirus Products Contest

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2008-05-02 06:31:36 by HASH0x8b205fc in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...guys learn some new tricks The bad guys will learn new tricks from the good guys modifying binaries to prove that anti virus signature scanning isn't working? There's no shortage of creativity and innovation on behalf of malware authors, and in reality,the good guys are supposed to learn from the bad guys in the sense of the techniques,...
 
Tags: malware, malware authors, malware variants, signature based malware, bad guys, guys, proprietary malware tools, tools, alternative malware
 
 
 
 
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Stolen Penn State laptop had information on 677

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2008-01-28 12:43:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...guys to know what they have Evan] IF the "bad guys" are motivated by identity theft, then they already know what they have. IF the "bad guys" are curious, they might find what they have. IF the "bad guys" are dumb, they wouldn't know the difference. It seems like most "bad guys' are dumb, so take that for what its worth Lindstrom added that,...
 
Tags: information, store information, sensitive personal information, information custodian, information security practice, identifiable information, confidential information, laptop, penn
 
 
 
 
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Hacking tool guidance finally appears

2007-12-31 17:50:32 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...guys use it for good purposes, and the bad guys use it for bad. The bad guys are of course committing an offence, and the good guys are not but the complexity surrounds distribution, if a good guy runs a website and a lot of bad people download the tool from it, has the good guy committed an offence The actual wording of the offence says...
 
Tags: bad, bad people download, cma offence, offence, bad guys, guys, offence stage, tool, article widely
 
 
 
 
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Protect your data: everything else is just plumbing

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2007-07-02 20:46:32 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
...guys were after, this approach worked The old model is no longer appropriate today. The bad guys really dont care about your network anymore: theyre going after your data. Attackers were once motivated by pride : Mafiaboy was notorious for bragging about bringing down large parts of the Internet in February 2000 (and his bragging became his...
 
Tags: data security, comrms data security, data, security, confidential information, information, information security, temporary data, data vanishes
 
 
 
 
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America's Dilemma: Close Security Holes, or Exploit Them Ourselves

2008-05-01 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...guys and the bad guys. Or they can keep quiet about the vulnerability and not tell anyone, thereby leaving the good guys insecure but also leaving the bad guys insecure The equities issue has long been hotly debated inside the NSA. Basically, the NSA has two roles: eavesdrop on their stuff, and protect our stuff. When both sides use the same...
 
Tags: security, bad guys insecure, guys, non-security, security improves, technologies, dual-use technologies, security improvements, agency
 
 
 
 
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Dual-Use Technologies and the Equities Issue

2008-05-06 05:17:24 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...guys and the bad guys. Or they can keep quiet about the vulnerability and not tell anyone, thereby leaving the good guys insecure but also leaving the bad guys insecure The equities issue has long been hotly debated inside the NSA. Basically, the NSA has two roles: eavesdrop on their stuff, and protect our stuff. When both sides use the same...
 
Tags: technologies, dual-use technologies, bad guys insecure, guys, dual, security, non-security, security improves, security improvements
 
 
 
 
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Dual-Use Technologies and the Equities Issue

2008-05-06 05:17:24 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...guys and the bad guys. Or they can keep quiet about the vulnerability and not tell anyone, thereby leaving the good guys insecure but also leaving the bad guys insecure The equities issue has long been hotly debated inside the NSA. Basically, the NSA has two roles: eavesdrop on their stuff, and protect our stuff. When both sides use the same...
 
Tags: technologies, dual-use technologies, bad guys insecure, guys, dual, security, non-security, security improves, security improvements
 
 
 
 
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NSA Attacks West Point! Relax, It's a Cyberwar Game

2008-05-10 01:00:00 by David Axe in Wired Security
 
...guys unleashed a stealthy kernel-level rootkit that burrowed into one workstation, started scraping data and "calling home It was a highly sophisticated attack, but this time the bad guys were really good guys in wolves' clothing For four days in late April, the National Security Agency -- the nation's most secretive repository of spooks,...
 
Tags: army university, army, custom-built networks, networks, nsa, army cadets, west, cadets, network