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My 2008 Security Predictions!

2008-01-09 15:42:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...increase as the year progresses Increase in Mac hacking = yes. The story is that Vista drives Mac adoption -> Mac increase in popularity will drive a new wave of Mac "0wnership Web application hacking still on the growth path = yes . As they say, 'it will get worse before it gets better.' I am predicting that 2008 is still the year when it...
 
Tags: security, security predictions, broader information security, information security, smb security, virtual security appliances, security market, security solutions, security software
 
 
 
 
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US Government planning to spend 10% of its IT budget on cyber-security by 2009.

2008-02-25 13:59:58 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...increased its cyber-security budget by a whopping 73% since 2004. The media has picked up on things such as DOT (Department of Transportation) more than doubling its budget while DHS (Department of Homeland Security) had less than a 5% increase, they dont have their priorities right or that we should fund federal agencies based on how well...
 
Tags: cyber-security, budget, cyber-security budget, security, government, measure security, security budgets, mature security postures, government infrastructure
 
 
 
 
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Top 10 computer virus threat and what can you do about it?

2006-12-05 06:09:00 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...increase using fake sign-in pages for popular online services WCYD: You can visually verify the URL or even better type the URL on your own rather than clicking on a link received via email 2. Volume of spam, particularly bandwidth-eating image spam, will rise WCYD: You can't do much about this other than enabling text only viewing on their...
 
Tags: wcyd, anti-virus, anti-virus software vendor, identity theft, identity theft victim, traditional anti-virus software, removal, mobile phone, sites
 
 
 
 
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In Next-Gen Bullets and Bombs, Even the Casing Explodes

2008-05-07 01:00:00 by David Hambling in Wired Security
 
...increase the effectiveness of existing designs. In a shaped charge, a hollow metal cone is surrounded by explosive material, which is then detonated, forcing the blast through the small end of the cone The action is analogous to stamping on an open toothpaste tube, ejecting the liquid contents," says Douglas Millard of British defense...
 
Tags: amounts, release explosive amounts, release, metal, hollow metal cone, explosive, energy, reliably release energy, metal liner
 
 
 
 
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Are Stolen Credit Card Details Getting Cheaper?

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2008-07-15 15:36:12 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...increase the supply or decrease it to boost prices for the stolen credit card details, also indicating the existence of underground cartels putting everyone in a "price taker" position The basics of demand and supply for anything underground will always apply unless of course, The more they want, the cheaper it gets, the less they want, the...
 
Tags: price, average market price, market price, credit card, credit card details, details, market, competitive market equilibrium, credit card basis
 
 
 
 
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The reason behind the "We're sorry..." message

2007-07-09 11:54:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...increase in search queries and sorry is one of our mechanisms to deal with this At ACM WORM 2006 , we published a paper on Search Worms [PDF] that takes a much closer look at this phenomenon. Santy , one of the search worms we analyzed, looks for remote-execution vulnerabilities in the popular phpBB2 web application. In addition to exhibiting...
 
Tags: web servers, vulnerable web servers, message, google, worms, google displays, worms pdf, queries, detect anomalous queries
 
 
 
 
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ICANN Moving On With Elimination of Domain Tasting

2008-02-05 06:24:07 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...increase in ccTLD contributions Good, just as the Board of Directors had proposed , they are moving through the budget process to eliminate the AGP or Add-Grace Period. This will make tasting a much more expensive speculation. With the refunds being eliminated they can expect revenues to increase, so increasing the fee would have been greedy....
 
Tags: icann, icann fees, add-grace period, registrar fees, elimination, expect revenues, fy08 level, expensive speculation, revenue model
 
 
 
 
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Lock-In

2008-02-12 06:08:15 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...increases Apple's bottom line. But the primary benefit of all this control for Apple is that it increases lock-in. "Lock-in" is an economic term for the difficulty of switching to a competing product. For some products -- cola, for example -- there's no lock-in. I can drink a Coke today and a Pepsi tomorrow: no big deal. But for other...
 
Tags: lock-in, software, software development kit, custom software, software company, security, hardware, special security hardware, security mechanism
 
 
 
 
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Warming the cold boot a bit of braggin from BitArmor

2008-02-28 13:17:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...Increase your complexity approach: Some want you to increase the end-user complexity with process and unnatural actions to solve the problem. Not a good idea every time we ask the end user to be responsible, we lose control and confidence that it was indeed secure. Transparency is the key to security We at BitArmor have taken another approach...
 
Tags: approach, happy approach, disk encryption products, disk encryption, complexity approach, bitarmor, disk encryption technologies, researchers, princeton researchers