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Storm worm, other botnets, kept spam levels high in 2007

2008-01-09 00:00:00 by Brad Reed in Network World on Security
 
Botnets helped keep spam output at consistently high levels last year, and the global spam output reached rates as high as 96% of all e-mail traffic 2007, according to a report from security firm Commtouch
 
Tags: global spam output, spam output, security firm commtouch, levels, botnets, e-mail traffic, report, consistently
 
 
 
 
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Shimel's theory of security company relativity or why there are so damn many security companies

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2008-04-10 22:08:39 by HASH0x8b4586c in StillSecure, After All These Years
...levels and to support the base and modest growth, most of these companies are borderline profitable at best. In order to substantially grow the business would require even more capital. That means raising more money, which in turns means having to sell for more to get a great return. There is the rub and where my formula comes into play At...
 
Tags: companies, security companies, company, security company relativity, security company, revenue, revenue level, revenue levels, million
 
 
 
 
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Shimel's theory of security company relativity or why there are so damn many security companies

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2008-04-10 20:16:32 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...levels and to support the base and modest growth, most of these companies are borderline profitable at best. In order to substantially grow the business would require even more capital. That means raising more money, which in turns means having to sell for more to get a great return. There is the rub and where my formula comes into play At...
 
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268,000 donors exposed through stolen Memorial Blood Centers laptop

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2007-12-06 14:09:42 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...levels of passwords and requires the use of other technologies to prevent unauthorized use. The donor records do not contain medical information Comfyllama] Multiple levels of passwords means little more than a nuisance to anyone with even minimal computer skill. If this was a shared laptop (not uncommon in this situation), then the chance of...
 
Tags: donors, blood, security, security cameras, store social security, memorial blood centers, donors social security, breach description, blood components
 
 
 
 
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Laptop stolen from Workers Compensation Fund auditor

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2008-01-03 11:25:59 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...levels of password protection Evan] I wonder how many auditors this entails. Additional levels of password protection could add more risk by increasing a user's chances or writing passwords down. In a recent security audit we found that 20% (13 of 65) of one company's field laptop users were writing passwords down on Post-It notes (and...
 
Tags: store personal information, personal information, information, information security matters, workers, workers compensation fund, laptop, security, security tokens
 
 
 
 
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Blue Box podcast #70 successfully recorded... on *conference WiFi*!

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2007-11-07 21:52:46 by HASH0x84726ec in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
...levels were quite different, I'm probably going to need to run the recording through the Levelator in order to bring the levels in line It should be posted probably some time early tomorrow. I'm at Interop all day today and so the post-production will probably be done during my time out at JFK and flying home later today Technorati Tags: bluebox
 
Tags: conference wifi, audio quality, quality, interop, interop noc team, audio, blue box, 200-300ms round trip, jonathan
 
 
 
 
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BAM Solutions for CEP Engine Users

2008-01-23 10:50:16 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...levels within an event processing solution to help users visualize and understand the dynamics behind rapidly changing situations and critical business events. In other words, BAM plays a key role wherever there is a need for better insight into the myriad events that effect your business operations BAM provides real-time visualization and...
 
Tags: cep, cep engine users, users, impact, business events impact, bam, cep permits, events, myriad events
 
 
 
 
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Four stolen laptops at the Eastern School District

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2008-02-21 16:37:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...levels, phone numbers, and names of parents/guardians Breach Description Four laptop computers were stolen from the Eastern School District Atlantic Place offices during a break-in that was discovered on February 17th, 2008. One of the stolen laptops contained personal information belonging to students bussing to and from schools in the...
 
Tags: district, eastern school district, school, information, personal information, confidential information, encrypt confidential information, computers, laptop computers
 
 
 
 
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Privacy and Power

2008-03-11 06:09:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...levels of the discloser and the disclosee If I disclose information to you, your power with respect to me increases. One way to address this power imbalance is for you to similarly disclose information to me. We both have less privacy, but the balance of power is maintained. But this mechanism fails utterly if you and I have different power...
 
Tags: relative power differential, relative power, power, relative power levels, power levels, additional power, power imbalance, officer enormous power, officer