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Information flow tracing and software testing

2007-09-17 09:32:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...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 particular, it allows for a fuzz testing technique that compromises between the original idea...
 
Tags: input, flayer marks, initial input samples, flayer, fuzz, fuzz testers require, checks, dynamic analysis framework, sanity checks
 
 
 
 
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Week in review

2007-03-11 07:41:17 by Perry Carpenter in Security Renaissance
 
...initial story My take on what may have happened (human nature run amuck Fired employee speaks out LA Times analysis (which sites my initial speculation As I stated in my Computerworld article The world is in a security and privacy renaissance. Ethical questions related to government and employer surveillance are being raised and reraised....
 
Tags: security, security smack-down, security industry, industry, security postures, security professional, security renaissance, security community, security catalyst
 
 
 
 
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Former Verizon Wireless employee charged with identity theft

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2008-04-27 09:43:33 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...initial and periodic), role-based access control, monitoring, etc., but sometimes even the best controls can be circumvented. Remember that we are not in the risk elimination business, we are in the risk reduction business This former employee was arrested on March 27, 2008 The former employee has been charged with identity theft by the...
 
Tags: verizon wireless, verizon, verizon wireless customers, employee, identity, identity theft, theft, sensitive personal information, social security
 
 
 
 
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Crypto-Gram Tenth Anniversary Issue

2008-05-15 11:13:10 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...initial batch of subscribers came from. Nor do I remember how people subscribed before the webpage form was done. I do remember my first big burst of subscribers, though. It was following my special issue after 9/11. I wrote something short for the September issue, but I found that I couldn't stop writing. Two weeks later, I published a...
 
Tags: crypto-gram, crypto-gram entries, blog online, blog, security products, snake-oil security products, blog entries, crypto-gram format, format
 
 
 
 
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"many of Colt's clients" affected by breach, CNET included

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2008-06-25 11:25:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...initial vendor feasibility assessment. Vendors and "trusted" third-parties need to be held to the same high security standards that we set for the organization. The methods in which this can be accomplished vary from organization to organization, but typically include risk assessments (initial and ongoing), information security requirements...
 
Tags: information, personal information, information security, confidential information, protect information, breach, sensitive information, information security requirements, colt
 
 
 
 
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Modelling Financial Risk Seminar

2006-08-01 02:13:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...initial topics are just the same old stuff. The latter topics though are quite interesting. Too bad I'm not in Singapore Tags: finance risk risk management seminars courses
 
Tags: risk, risk management professionals, risk management, risk measurement, liquidity risk, model risk, singapore conference hall, singapore, initial topics
 
 
 
 
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An Option with a Negative Value?

2006-07-28 08:38:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...initial cash flow. Indeed it is unfair Mathematically, an option value cannot be less than zero as well. (Please correct me if I'm wrong). I've played with several scenarios using the Black-Scholes and Binomial methods and the least value of an option is zero ("worthless But it is possible for an option position (note that I'm talking about...
 
Tags: option, negative option, option seller, option writer sells, option buyer, option position, negative, position, writer
 
 
 
 
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The new e-discovery rules - what they mean for your company

2006-11-30 06:26:27 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...initial filing of the lawsuit. The new rules mean that all companies, large and small, must pull their socks up and get serious about managing their electronic records The good news is that under the new rules, the court must now recognize that a company is not able to retain all records and will not be sanctioned if a document is deleted in...
 
Tags: rules, discovery, electronic discovery rules, address e-discovery issues, court, federal court, records, electronic records, company
 
 
 
 
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Is the Bush Administration Getting Serious About Information Security?

2007-11-16 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...initial budget request (which would shift current government fiscal year money from other projects) will reportedly be focused on expanding DHS's "Einstein" program , which is run by the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team . See this Federal Computer Week story by Jason Miller titled White House officials ask for $154 million in new...
 
Tags: cyber security initiatives, white house officials, homeland security, million, jason miller, federal agencies, dhs, president bush, initial budget
 
 
 
 
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"Prosthetic Biometrics": Microchips Under Your Skin

2007-02-09 00:00:00 by Ari Juels in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...initial public offering. VeriChip sells small, encapsulated microchips (RFID tags) that transmit unique serial numbers over short distances via radioâsurgically implantable authentication devices, in fact. Dogs and cats have been regularly implanted with RFID tags for years. That beta test, if you will, has been has largely successful: Many...
 
Tags: devices, implantable authentication devices, rfid tags, scan rfid tags, digital authentication devices, prosthetic biometrics, verichip sells, verichip, transmit unique serial