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The Security Mindset

2008-03-25 05:27:19 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...involves thinking about how things can be made to work; the security mindset involves thinking about how things can be made to fail. It involves thinking like an attacker, an adversary or a criminal. You don't have to exploit the vulnerabilities you find, but if you don't see the world that way, you'll never notice most security problems I've...
 
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The Security Mindset

2008-03-25 05:27:19 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...involves thinking about how things can be made to work; the security mindset involves thinking about how things can be made to fail. It involves thinking like an attacker, an adversary or a criminal. You don't have to exploit the vulnerabilities you find, but if you don't see the world that way, you'll never notice most security problems I've...
 
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Spring ISD mobile devices stolen along with personal student information

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2008-05-18 23:01:44 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...involves the students personal information. The Spring ISD testing coordinators car was broken into while she was making a stop at a business on her way home from work that evening and a Spring ISD laptop computer and an external flash drive were stolen Reference URL Spring ISD News Houston Chronicle ABC Channel 13 News Report Credit Spring...
 
Tags: information, students personal information, personal information, isd, students, individual students, isd laptop computer, external flash drive, drive
 
 
 
 
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Train keeps a rollin' around open source

2008-01-29 07:34:20 by HASH0x8b75cb4 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...involves open source companies being acquired by commercial entities the naysayers quickly questioned Nokia's commitment to the community and whether they would continue to offer and develop the open source products. In this case Nokia and Trolltech put out a joint release reaffirming Nokia and Trolltechs commitment to open source, the...
 
Tags: source, companies, source companies, source deal, source company, deal, source products, days ago nokia, nokia
 
 
 
 
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Modelling Financial Risk Seminar

2006-08-01 02:13:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...involves lectures by Dr. Elizabeth Sheedy and some computer workshops after each topic Topics for Discussion Introduction Measuring Risk Under the Normal Distribution Historical Simulations for Measuring Risk Monte Carlo Simulations for Measuring Risk Stress Testing VaR in the Absence of Normality Liquidity Risk Model Risk Maximum...
 
Tags: risk, risk management professionals, risk management, risk measurement, liquidity risk, model risk, singapore conference hall, singapore, initial topics
 
 
 
 
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Speaking of Security Podcast #71

2007-08-06 00:00:00 by Podcast Producers in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...involves bank customers in a user-friendly way, reassures them and boosts their confidence online, while not hindering their banking experience. Paul Joyal talks to CIO Donald Duggan about this initiative
 
Tags: protect bank customers, bank, involves bank customers, cio donald duggan, provide strong security, bank based, paul joyal talks, visible site-to-user authentication, online
 
 
 
 
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Domain Kiting vs. Domain Tasting

2007-08-06 14:25:47 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...involves continual registration, deletion, and re-registration of the same names in order to avoid paying the registration fees. This practice is sometimes referred to as "domain kiting." This term has been mistakenly used as being synonymous with domain tasting, but it refers to multiple and often consecutive tasting of the same domain name...
 
Tags: domain, domain names return, names, serial domain, register domain names, registrants, registrants conduct, registration fee, sharp distinction
 
 
 
 
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Protect your data: everything else is just plumbing

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2007-07-02 20:46:32 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
...involves a lot of work on the part of someone else. Alice has to beg, cajole, and bribe the network admin to create a file share, create two security groups, add Bob to one and Phil to the other, and create access control entries on the shares access control list. Thats a lot of work for someone who really doesnt care about Alices problems....
 
Tags: data security, comrms data security, data, security, confidential information, information, information security, temporary data, data vanishes
 
 
 
 
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Combating Unrestricted Warfare

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2007-12-15 09:08:23 by HASH0x8472308 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...involves multidimensional, asymmetric attacks on almost every aspect of the adversarys social, economic, and political life. Unrestricted warfare employs surprise and deception and uses both civilian technology and military weapons to break the opponents will Moreover, the 2007 edition is covering in-depth such popular asymmetric threats...
 
Tags: chinese information warfare, information, information warfare, warfare, cyber warfare unit, cyber warfare, asymmetric warfare, unconventional warfare, warfare employs surprise
 
 
 
 
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Keyloggers: Why Banks Need Two-Factor Authentication

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2008-01-14 11:55:21 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog