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Wired.com and History.com Getting RBN-ed

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2008-03-10 14:20:33 by HASH0x8aeaaa0 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...History.com's search engines, which are again caching anything submitted, particularly not validated input to have the malicious parties in the face of the RBN introducing a new malware, in between the pharmaceutical scams that they serve on the basis of an affiliation model . So, after " CNET stops IFRAME site attacks - who's next? " in...
 
Tags: malware, vbs malware, malware attack, rbn, media malware gang, iframe injection attack, iframe injection, malware research, high-profile sites
 
 
 
 
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Credit reporting firm sues LifeLock over fraud alerts in consumer history files

2008-02-21 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Experian, one of the three big credit reporting firms in the U.S., filed a lawsuit claiming that LifeLock is illegally placing hundreds of thousands of fraud alerts in consumer credit-history files as part of its identity theft protection service
 
Tags: credit, fraud alerts, consumer credit-history files, lifelock, firms, thousands, experian, filed, hundreds
 
 
 
 
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Declassified NSA Document Reveals the Secret History of TEMPEST

2008-04-30 04:00:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
The secret history of how the nation's spies discovered that their ace equipment was leaking data into the ether has never been told before. But now a declassified NSA document tells how a Bell Telephone engineer stumbled onto a problem that vexes the agency to this day
 
Tags: secret history, nsa document tells, bell telephone engineer, ace equipment, nation, vexes, ether, data, spies
 
 
 
 
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A Bitter Pill To Swallow: First Generation CEP Software Needs To Evolve

2008-02-09 03:08:55 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...history of CEP but not called CEP behind the scenes keeping peoplesafe and warm. (The same thing can be said with many similar examples of complex event processing in use today, but not called CEP by CEP software vendors This is one reason when I read the CEP history lessons I am amused at how, at times, the lessons appear self-serving, not...
 
Tags: cep, cep space, cep softwaremust evolve, real cep capabilities, cep capabilities, real operational cep, cep market, cep software vendors, cep software space
 
 
 
 
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What Would Galileo Think

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2008-06-05 03:08:00 by Richard Bejtlich in TaoSecurity
...history. Studying the past constantly reminds me that we are not any smarter than our predecessors, although we have more knowledge available. The challenge of history is to apply its lessons to modern problems in time to positively impact those problems I offer this post in response to some of the reporting from the Gartner Security Summit...
 
Tags: security, cyber security, defensive security measures, security model, gartner, gartner security summit, security posture, security products, galileo
 
 
 
 
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Want To Win Free Debix Identity Theft Protection For A Year?

2008-02-27 22:24:38 by rmogull in securosis.com
 
...history Debix works by placing a fraud alert on your credit report with all three agencies. They automatically renew these every three months, and instead of listing your personal information all calls to open new credit on your account are routed to the Debix call center, which then tracks you down on different contact numbers. Anytime...
 
Tags: debix, free credit protection, credit, debix call center, identity theft, pre-screend credit offers, free debix trial, credit report, credit history
 
 
 
 
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Infrastructure Protection in the Ancient World

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2008-03-05 11:14:00 by Richard Bejtlich in TaoSecurity
...history at the Air Force Academy. (Yes, not a bachelor of arts degree. Because of the number of core engineering, math and science classes -- 12 I think? -- the degree is "science". At a civilian school I would have qualified for a minor in engineering, so I was told.) I really enjoy history because anyone who takes a minute to look backwards...
 
Tags: science degree, science, arts degree, degree, paper infrastructure protection, ancient world, paper, michael, enjoy history
 
 
 
 
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Every network has a firewall, shouldnt a virtual one have the same?

2008-02-10 15:07:45 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
 
...history proves itself time and time again and in this case history has proven that we are quick to take advantage of things that are cheaper and make our lives easier and put the "what if's" on hold We do this all the time in every day life. What if I die tomorrow? Well, I'll wait and get life insurance later, I'm still young and healthy....
 
Tags: security, low security environment, security servers, low security segments, low security machines, network, security takes, security virtual machines, machines
 
 
 
 
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Response to Is Vulnerability Research Ethical?

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2008-05-24 02:15:00 by Richard Bejtlich in TaoSecurity
...history of breaking into systems, who had reformed and acted as a security consultant, was arrested for new criminal behavior Firms that hire reformed hackers to audit or guard their systems are not acting prudently any more than if they hired a reformed pedophile to babysit their kids. First of all, the ability to hack into a system...
 
Tags: vulnerability research ethical, vulnerability research, research, vulnerability, security design, design, security, security consultant, system