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Metrics for security and performance in low-latency anonymity systems

2008-07-21 08:16:12 by Steven J. Murdoch in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...lower ones would cripple the network. This is why Tor weights the selection probability for a node proportional to its contribution to the network bandwidth Because of the dual importance of route selection, there are a number of proposals which offer an alternative to Tors bandwidth-weighted algorithm. Later this week at PETS Ill be...
 
Tags: route selection, route selection critical, route selection algorithms, route, nodes, tor nodes vary, security, performance, route selection algorithm
 
 
 
 
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Crude oil and gold at all time highs, US manufacturing at 5 year low, feel like buying some security?

2008-03-03 11:11:29 by HASH0x8b2f8e0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...low. Just not a pretty picture. My thoughts begin to wander to what effect our economy is going to have to have on the IT industry and security in particular. I have seen pundits on both sides of this question. Some say that in tough times business has to be more efficient so IT spending is likely to remain constant and may even increase....
 
Tags: security, security budgets, time, bad times, times, budgets, bigger hit, hit, tough times business
 
 
 
 
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New Year's Resolutions for choosing online retailers

2007-12-20 09:31:28 by Andras Cser in Security & Risk Management
 
...lowing list gives a compass to consumers and vendors to navigate the misty waters of online transactions Smart cards / USB tokens (very costly, high level of security, great user inconvenience Hardware based solution that contains applications, PKI certificates used to authenticate to a site. These cards can include a magstripe for physical...
 
Tags: user inconvenience, low user inconvenience, users desktop, users desktop software, software, medium user inconvenience, low, imagic software, user
 
 
 
 
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RSA Crypto Panel: Martin Hellman on 0.01% Events

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2008-04-10 00:04:00 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...low probability events He had one slide - a picture of a glider soaring very low over a runway at the bottom of a high speed, low pass flight. Hellman is a pilot and pointed out that this activity is safe for those that do it 999 out of 1000 times, but went on to talk about how cautious pilots are when they first attempt it, but after 50 or...
 
Tags: probability, low probability events, hellman, martin hellman, low, martin, security, events, non-security folks
 
 
 
 
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Communicating about risk - part 1

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2008-05-05 18:12:14 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is
...low (Ive included both a qualitative and a quantitative version At first glance, a decision maker might think This doesnt look so bad. I can live with this level of risk . But thats not necessarily the whole story Unstable conditions An unstable risk condition exists when the following characteristics co-exist Threat event frequency is low...
 
Tags: risk, effective, cost-effective risk management, fragile condition exists, condition, unstable condition, risk qualifiers, risk condition, risk chart perspective
 
 
 
 
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Every network has a firewall, shouldnt a virtual one have the same?

2008-02-10 15:07:45 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
 
...Low Security Machines, are'nt those High Security Servers now in a Low Security environment? Common sense answer right? Of course they are now in a Low Security Environment!! However, if you have isolation between those types of virtual machines, you've now isoloated, partitioned, segmented and split up your virtual network into High Security...
 
Tags: security, low security environment, security servers, low security segments, low security machines, network, security takes, security virtual machines, machines
 
 
 
 
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Every network has a firewall, shouldnt a virtual one have the same?

2008-02-10 15:07:45 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
 
...Low Security Machines, are'nt those High Security Servers now in a Low Security environment? Common sense answer right? Of course they are now in a Low Security Environment!! However, if you have isolation between those types of virtual machines, you've now isoloated, partitioned, segmented and split up your virtual network into High Security...
 
Tags: security, low security environment, security servers, low security segments, low security machines, network, security takes, security virtual machines, machines
 
 
 
 
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On virtualisation

2007-05-29 16:20:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...lowing Panayiotis' and Niels' post on malware, I'd like to discuss a somewhat related topic, virtualisation. Virtual machines are often used by security researchers to sandbox malware samples for analysis, or to protect a machine from a potentially hazardous activity. The theory is that any security threat or malicious behaviour will be...
 
Tags: machine, virtual machine process, virtual machine software, host machine, host, software, virtual machine, low, low level access
 
 
 
 
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Maryland Department of Assessments & Taxation web exposure

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2008-01-05 14:02:15 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...low, I do not agree that an attacker would have to have "been focused in on that site" in order to capture the information Tim Brooks, the institute's associate director in charge of software development, said a hacker would have had to be located right outside the home of a resident accessing the site or outside of the institute's data...
 
Tags: maryland, sensitive personal information, personal information, secure server hadhas, server, web application server, application, information, information security