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How Not to Be Seen II: The Defenders Fight Back

2008-01-07 09:15:52 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
In a previous column ("How Not to Be Seen," vol. 5, no. 1, 2007, pp. 6769), the authors introduced readers to the varied technologies that stealthy software uses. At the end of the column, they promised to take a whirlwind look at stealth detection; this installment fulfills that obligation
 
Tags: previous column, column, stealth detection, stealthy software, installment fulfills, authors, vol, technologies, whirlwind
 
 
 
 
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Group Policy Object security in Windows

2008-02-28 10:56:04 by David Nielson, Associate Site Editor in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
Many of our readers have been asking questions about the security of Group Policy Objects (GPOs) in Windows so far this year. With this in mind, the February installment of our "Ask the Security Expert" roundup focuses on exactly that. Learn how to manage user access, how to assign GPOs at the OU level and how to assign logon rights in this podcast
 
Tags: security, assign logon rights, manage user access, assign gpos, security expert, gpos, windows, february installment, roundup focuses
 
 
 
 
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Software Security Metrics and Commentary on "Metrics Framework" Paper

2007-09-17 20:41:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...installment I comment on the metrics from the paper and provide what I believe are reasonable replacement metrics for 5 of the 10 in the paper. In Part-2 I'll take on the next 5 as well as discuss some other thoughts on what metrics matter for measuring web application security The paper is actually a good introduction on how to think about...
 
Tags: metrics, software security metrics, metrics framework, metrics miss, design-time metric, design, upstream sdl metrics, application, web application security
 
 
 
 
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Mobile Malware wrap-up for 2006

2007-03-11 07:08:33 by Perry Carpenter in Security Renaissance
 
Alexander Gostev at Kaspersky Labs has been doing a great job summarizing the evolution of mobile malware. His latest installment is a wrap-up for 2006 . If you are into tracking trends in the mobile malware space, this is a must read
 
Tags: mobile malware, mobile malware space, alexander gostev, wrap-up, kaspersky labs, job, trends, evolution, installment
 
 
 
 
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Critical patches for IE and Office released

2008-04-10 10:47:09 by David Nielson, Associate Site Editor in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
The April 2008 installment of our "What's hot in Windows security" podcast focuses on this month's Microsoft patch release, the potential for new anti-rootkit technology and Windows Vista. Security expert Brien Posey discusses this month's most critical security vulnerabilities, March's rare out-of-cycle security patch and the incompatibilities...
 
Tags: microsoft patch release, critical security vulnerabilities, windows vista, month, windows security, podcast focuses, anti-rootkit technology, posey discusses, security expert
 
 
 
 
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Defend against targeted attacks - Part 2

2008-04-10 10:51:23 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
In this second and final installment, weâre examine how to look for and remediate potential attack paths; attack paths that might only make themselves known during focused and aggressive attack preparation
 
Tags: potential attack paths, attack paths, aggressive attack preparation, final installment, examine
 
 
 
 
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Four ways to fight off strangers with candy

2008-04-17 00:00:00 by Mark Gibbs in Network World on Security
 
Users aren't naïve, they are willfully ignorant and the latest installment of a experiment shows just how easily users can undermine IT security. Here's a summary of the survey and four ways to reduce the impact of user ignorance
 
Tags: users, easily users, user ignorance, experiment, ignorant, nave, survey, undermine, summary
 
 
 
 
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How to manage user rights, patches and Group Policy

2008-05-02 15:23:02 by David Nielson, Associate Site Editor in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
In this installment of our Ask the Security Expert Roundup podcast series, we explain how you can learn to manage user rights, Windows patches and Group Policy in Windows by visiting our IT Knowledge Exchange, a forum driven by the security pro for the security pro
 
Tags: manage user rights, security pro, windows, windows patches, knowledge exchange, policy, installment, explain, forum
 
 
 
 
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Nobody Is That Dumb ... Oh, Wait X

2008-05-05 14:26:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...installment in my strictly aperiodic "Nobody Is That Dumb ... Oh, Wait" series , a cheap [ but - hopefully! - more humorous ] imitation of the infamous "doghouse Today's entry is about throwing free money and free work [of somebody else, mind you] down the proverbial crapper So, the other day I was at one security conference which had a bit...
 
Tags: security appliance vendor, vendor, log management vendor, enables loglogic index, loglogic, logs, vendor expo, official support package, free money