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Media and Our Mind - Risk is All About Perception

2008-01-23 07:22:32 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...headlines typically don't highlight the most important risks. You are much more likely to lose data from human error or inadequately tested backup and recovery processes than from floods or attacks, but inadequate processes don't make good headlines. In addition, headlines fade quickly if something becomes frequent it's often less newsworthy,...
 
 
 
 
 
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Summarizing July's Threatscape

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2008-08-01 16:08:24 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...headlines with their ability to actually make up the headlines on their own 10. Mobile Malware Scam iSexPlayer Wants Your Money The best scams are the ones to which you've personally agreed to be scammed with without even knowing it. Like this one, which was tracked down and analyzed a couple of hours once a uset tipped on it 11. The...
 
 
 
 
 
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Reputation Damage & Measurement

2008-08-22 14:33:56 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...headlines from Bloomberg about why the days stocks (or commodity) prices are up or down. You know, the Oil closes $3 higher on news that a notable South American dictator has a rather unpleasant boil in a very uncomfortable area type of headlines. You really do have to question the causality and correlation. So in the Helphire case above - is...
 
 
 
 
 
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Have Your Malware In a Timely Fashion

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2007-12-15 08:35:11 by HASH0x89f6724 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...headlines in France. No doubt this is why the French Embassy Web Site is now infected by malicious code. Please do not attempt to reach the site, it is still dangerous Let's pick up from where McAfee left in the assessment. 4qobj63z.tarog.us/tds/in.cgi?14 (58.65.233.98) loads an IFRAME to fernando123.ws/forum/index.php (88.255.94.114) which...
 
 
 
 
 
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Show 001 - An Interview with Avi Rubin

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2006-04-19 17:47:13 by rmacmich in The Silver Bullet Security Podcast
...headlines in 2003 when he revealed glitches in Diebold electronic voting machines Links A partial transcript of the interview in IEEE Security & Privacy Avis site Brave New Ballot: The Battle to Safeguard Democracy in the Age of Electronic Voting , Avis forthcoming book ACCURATE - A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and...
 
 
 
 
 
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WakeMed Emergency Department laptop goes missing

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2008-01-31 01:32:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...headlines now than it ever did, and there are victims every day. What makes people think that the risk is minimal and there is "no reason to believe" that a thief may be interested in the information on the computer. Even if the thief isn't interested or skilled enough, do you think the person who buys the laptop from the thief might be We...
 
 
 
 
 
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Eliot Spitzer: High-tech felt his impact

2008-03-11 00:00:00 by Network World Staff in Network World on Security
 
Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced New York governor making headlines this week for being linked to a prostitution ring, is perhaps best known for his aggressive takedown of unethical Wall Street firms during his days as attorney general. But the former prosecutor also played a big role in cleaning up the high-tech and network industries
 
 
 
 
 
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Hackers vs. OSes next week in big money contest

2008-03-19 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b4f648 in Network World on Security
 
The security conference that last year made headlines with a hack challenge whose winner walked away with a $10,000 prize is reprising the contest next week -- this time with more money at stake, the contest's organizer said Wednesday
 
 
 
 
 
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No PR purge here, says Hannaford's security vendor

2008-03-20 00:00:00 by Paul McNamara in Network World on Security
 
Now you see them, now you don't now you do? Such was the fate last week of online press releases and testimonials touting Hannaford's use of Rapid7's flagship risk-management product. The relationship between the companies had become notable after news of the beleaguered grocer's data breach made major headlines
 
 
 
 
 
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Vista SP1: Threat or Menace?

2008-03-22 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473394 in