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Security Matters: The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-02 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...Ineffective Terrorists," he discusses, well, seven habits of highly ineffective terrorists. These seven tendencies are seen in terrorist organizations all over the world, and they directly contradict the theory that terrorists are political maximizers Terrorists, he writes, (1) attack civilians, a policy that has a lousy track record of...
 
Tags: ineffective, highly ineffective terrorists, terrorists, people join, people join hamas, people join al-qaida, terrorist organizations, organizations, al-qaida
 
 
 
 
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The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-07 05:48:53 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Ineffective Terrorists," he discusses, well, seven habits of highly ineffective terrorists. These seven tendencies are seen in terrorist organizations all over the world, and they directly contradict the theory that terrorists are political maximizers Terrorists, he writes, (1) attack civilians, a policy that has a lousy track record of...
 
Tags: ineffective, highly ineffective terrorists, terrorists, people join, people join hamas, people join al-qaida, terrorist organizations, organizations, al-qaida
 
 
 
 
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Same Letters, New Acronym

2008-06-27 12:50:12 by Posted By: John Pescatore, VP Distinguished Analyst in IT Leaders - Security and Risk Management
 
...ineffective There are some differences, though. ISACs were always U.S.-centric with the U.S. government trying to be involved. ICASI is supposed to be more global, but since it is being established by North American vendors, there is no real difference there, but at least it is government-neutral. The IT-ISAC had many member companies that...
 
Tags: security, security officers, security services vendors, vendors, technology vendors, infrastructure vendors, security product vendors, north american vendors, vendors belong
 
 
 
 
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Information flow tracing and software testing

2007-09-17 09:32:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...ineffective. However, the newer, more complicated fuzz testers require a considerable initial investment in the form of complete input format specifications or the selection of a large corpus of initial input samples At WOOT'07 ,I presented a paper on Flayer , a tool we developed internally to augment our security testing efforts. In...
 
Tags: input, flayer marks, initial input samples, flayer, fuzz, fuzz testers require, checks, dynamic analysis framework, sanity checks
 
 
 
 
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More trustworthy election systems via SDL?

2008-02-04 23:34:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...ineffective or insecure manner. Of particular concern is the fact that virtually all cryptographic key material is permanently hardcoded in the system (and is apparently identical in all Sequoia hardware shipped to different jurisdictions Software Engineering . The software suffers from numerous programming errors, many of which have a high...
 
Tags: machine security concerns, security concerns, election systems, election, security, security researchers, election systems margin, margin, election management system
 
 
 
 
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What's the Snag Behind the Spyware

2007-08-01 19:28:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...ineffective results of computers' performance; like network traffic, disk usage, CPU malfunction which may be mislead to be a PC crash, and finally resolving to replace the whole system with a new one The demand for technical support and assistance is another recourse for badly spyware-infected computers. Another option is to have a thorough...
 
Tags: spyware, software, reputable piece software, anti-spyware program, helpful software agents, information data, information, system, computer system
 
 
 
 
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Spying on the terrorists

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2008-01-20 22:37:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
...ineffective many of our approaches and agencies are in dealing with terrorism For instance, Mr. German is very much against wide sweeping powers that grant agencies greater powers to detain and question suspects. He believes that by lessening control and oversight, there is a danger for agents and law enforcement officers to concentrate more...
 
Tags: mike german, german, cameras, surveillance cameras, aryan nation, terrorists, london, london bombings, terrorist
 
 
 
 
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Encryption defeated, still an advocate?

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2008-02-22 16:15:15 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...ineffective; hardware changes are possible but will require time and expense; and todays Trusted Computing technologies appear to be of little help because they cannot protect keys that are already in memory. The risk seems highest for laptops, which are often taken out in public in states that are vulnerable to our attacks. These risks imply...
 
Tags: encryption, disk encryption software, encryption software, information security field, information, hard drive encryption, disk encryption, text information, encryption keys
 
 
 
 
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Internet Censorship

2008-04-07 05:00:32 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...ineffective attempts at censorship can become very effective socially and politically In 1996, Barlow said: "You are trying to ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at the frontiers of cyberspace. These may keep out the contagion for some time, but they will not work in a world that will soon be blanketed in bit-bearing media...
 
Tags: internet censorship, censorship, internet censorship measures, enable internet censorship, internet, prevent anonymous internet, internet access, global internet, net interprets censorship
 
 
 
 
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Not a CISSP

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2008-04-18 14:36:41 by Chris Eng in Zero in a bit
...ineffective measure of a security professionals practical abilities. Employers and cust