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Chinese Say They're Building 'Impossible' Space Drive

2008-09-24 14:29:00 by David Hambling in Wired Security
 
Chinese researchers claim they've confirmed the theory behind an "impossible" space drive, and are proceeding to build a demonstration version. If they're right, it could open up new possibilities for space exploration and give the Chinese a decisive military advantage in space
 
Tags: space, space drive, chinese, chinese researchers claim, space exploration, decisive military advantage, demonstration version, impossible, possibilities
 
 
 
 
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Google in curious alliance with click-fraud detection firm

2008-10-10 00:00:00 by HASH0x84734a4 in Network World on Security
 
In a development that would have seemed impossible two years ago, Google is cooperating publicly with Click Forensics, a click-fraud detection company with which it has had a rocky relationship
 
Tags: click-fraud detection company, google, click forensics, rocky relationship, ago, publicly, impossible, development
 
 
 
 
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Cross-Device-Type Log Management vs Device-Specific Log Management

2008-06-02 14:38:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Impossible or tremendously hard to manage across many systems Acceptable - alerts on each log type are handled by different teams Superior - all logs are available for analysis when the alert is triggered Reviewing logs for troubleshooting server problems Acceptable - server logs are sufficient for Better - one can also look at logs from...
 
Tags: logs, pci relevant logs, log management, database logs, logs remain, gather windows logs, device-specific log management, server logs, type
 
 
 
 
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Audit/Monitor Controls or Audit/Monitor BEFORE Control?

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2008-02-28 11:38:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
...impossible to implement, while audit will be possible. Imagine retrofitting a legacy application for granular authorization? Third, in some cases implementing prevention/control will be much more complicated, compared to implementing audit: thus, people will face a choice between a half-baked control to a full-blown audit capability? An...
 
Tags: audit, broadly includes audit, broadly, includes, audit whatsoever, full-blown audit capability, paper, paper clarifies, controls
 
 
 
 
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Maryland Department of Assessments & Taxation web exposure

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2008-01-05 14:02:15 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...impossible for anyone to access the numbers because of the brief amount of time they were exposed and because hackers would have had to tap into Internet transmission lines from a specific location Evan] Not nearly impossible Somebody would have had to been focused in on that site," Mr. Young said. "The chances of that are virtually nil...
 
Tags: maryland, sensitive personal information, personal information, secure server hadhas, server, web application server, application, information, information security
 
 
 
 
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GCHQing with the Honeynet Project

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2008-02-11 17:33:59 by HASH0x8bfdee8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...impossible, the impossible just takes a little longer. If someone told me an year ago that I'll be presenting at the U.K's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) with the dudes from the Honeynet Project , I would have been rather skeptical. So, after a week of intensive socializing among geeks, a windy trip to Stonehenge along the way...
 
Tags: honeynet project, government communications headquarters, windy trip, face-to-face conversations, information oveload, data, stay tuned, impossible, strategic level
 
 
 
 
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Creating and Entrapping Terrorists

2008-03-05 06:25:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...impossible to actually pull off. After Defreitas was arrested, U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf called it "one of the most chilling plots imaginable Using informants to gin up terrorist conspiracies is a radical departure from the way the FBI has traditionally used cooperating sources against organized crime or drug dealers, where a pattern of...
 
Tags: terrorist, modern terrorist, hossain, terrorist conspiracies, deal hossain claims, yassin aref, aref, terrorist plot, stop federal agents
 
 
 
 
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SOA security more than authentication

2008-07-28 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b49f5c in Network World on Security
 
...impossible to break into the New York City apartment. My brother-in-law corrected me. "It's not impossible. It doesn't have to be," he said. "It just has to be harder to break into this apartment than into the other apartments." Think of it as a variation on the joke, "I don't have to outrun the bear. I just have to outrun you
 
Tags: apartment, york city apartment, silly comment, outrun, impossible, brother-in-law, variation, sister, ago
 
 
 
 
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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
...impossible, the impossible just takes a little longer where the incentive would be the ultimate monetization of the process Russian hacktivists attacking Lithuania and Georgia, several Storm Worm campaigns, a couple of new malware tools, Neosploit team abandoning support for their web malware exploitation kit, CAPTCHA for several of the most...
 
Tags: malware, profitable malware operations, malware authors, malware tools, malware coder, malware kit, malware infection, neosploit malware kit, spam