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Setting file ACLs with PowerShell part 4

2007-11-29 09:34:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
...invalid cast exception This syntax allows you to create type-constrained variables. Now when I assign an object to $b, PowerShell will first try to cast that object to System.Int32 (you could also have used "int", by the way). The last line of code above will throw an invalid cast exception. This is a very useful feature, allowing you to get...
 
Tags: values, invalid enumeration values, enumeration, enumeration values, new-object security, object, powershell, invalid cast exception, cast
 
 
 
 
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Click Fraud, Botnets and Parked Domains - All Inclusive

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2008-07-28 07:58:08 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...invalid, Google failed to disclose to the plaintiff specific domain names in which these ads were clicked on, making detection of invalid clicks difficult and even worse concealing any evidence of invalid clicks," the lawsuit alleges. RK West eventually went through its server logs and discovered the source of the clicks, said Alfredo...
 
Tags: click, click fraud, click percentage, click basis, pay-per-click, click forensics, click fraud activity, invalid, invalid clicks difficult
 
 
 
 
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Corrupted Heap Termination Redux

2008-06-07 04:00:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...invalid. This can be a single header, or multiple headers Walk of the large virtual blocks shows corruption (all blocks above about 512Kb on x86 and 1Mb on 64 bit are not allocated from segments; they are direct virtual allocations, the heap just holds a list of them along with some metadata to assure consistency with the rest of the heap....
 
Tags: heap, free block list, block, handle, bogus heap handle, invalid, invalid heap, custom heap, block header
 
 
 
 
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Root of Trust ?

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2008-09-29 18:33:27 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
...invalid Since the email seems to have originated in the Windows world, but was signed on a Linux box (giving it a mixture of 0D 0A and 0A line endings), then pushed through a three year old copy of MIME-tools I suppose the failure isnt too surprising. But strictly the invalid signature means that I shouldnt trust the emails contents at all...
 
Tags: key, public key servers, trust, iis root key, key 0xf440ee9b, pgp, pgp nyckel-id, public key server, pgp key
 
 
 
 
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Disinfecting a spyware-riddled PC

2008-03-31 00:00:00 by Ron Nutter in Network World on Security
 
...invalid and does not match whatever it has to compare it to
 
Tags: e-mail address, address, connection, ethernet cable, month ago, boot-up process, compare, time, net
 
 
 
 
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Responsible-ish Disclosure

2008-05-08 20:50:57 by Chris Eng in Zero in a bit
 
...invalid .text:00405C52 mov ecx, eax ; destination pointer. .text:00405C54 and ecx, 3 Dave asserts that publishing 16 commented assembly instructions makes this disclosure irresponsible. But look at the code its completely generic, just a textbook example of what it looks like when you forget to check a return value after calling operator new....
 
Tags: text, esi, 00405c1b mov esi, ecx, 00405c31 push esi, 00405c3e mov ecx, recent dos vulnerability, vulnerability, 00405c21 test esi
 
 
 
 
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Why Do We Accept Signatures by Fax?

2008-05-29 01:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...invalid even if signed: The signer might be drunk, or have a gun pointed at his head. Or he might be a minor. Sometimes a valid signature isn't enough; in the United States there is an entire infrastructure of "notary publics" who officially witness signed documents. When I started filing my tax returns electronically, I had to sign a...
 
Tags: fax, fax communications, fax insecurity, insecurity, fax machines, fax message, treat fax signatures, fax document, document
 
 
 
 
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Fax Signatures

2008-06-03 07:01:20 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...invalid even if signed: The signer might be drunk, or have a gun pointed at his head. Or he might be a minor. Sometimes a valid signature isn't enough; in the United States there is an entire infrastructure of "notary publics" who officially witness signed documents. When I started filing my tax returns electronically, I had to sign a...
 
Tags: fax, fax signatures, fax communications, fax insecurity, insecurity, fax machines, fax message, treat fax signatures, fax document
 
 
 
 
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Fax Signatures

2008-06-03 07:01:20 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...invalid even if signed: The signer might be drunk, or have a gun pointed at his head. Or he might be a minor. Sometimes a valid signature isn't enough; in the United States there is an entire infrastructure of "notary publics" who officially witness signed documents. When I started filing my tax returns electronically, I had to sign a...
 
Tags: fax, fax signatures, fax communications, fax insecurity, insecurity, fax machines, fax message, treat fax signatures, fax document
 
 
 
 
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Security Circumvented: My Anti-Virus

2008-06-20 03:31:34 by JJ in Security Uncorked
 
...invalid browser certificate notices dancing in my head
 
Tags: security, norton pops, norton, internet, security features, access, flagrantly ambiguous information, anti-virus signature renewal, possibly worse