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Security Assessment Economics

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2008-06-12 21:03:59 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
...margin up Some ways that vendors will try to keep the assessment costs down Hire cheaper people (yes, paper CISSPs Try to reduce the engegement to a formula/methodlogy (ack, a checklist Its all about billability: what percentage of your peoples time is not billable to clients Put people on assessments who have tangential skills just to keep...
 
Tags: assessment, market, market simply, security, commodity market, people, quality people, assessment costs, assessment results
 
 
 
 
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More trustworthy election systems via SDL?

2008-02-04 23:34:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...margin of victory was perhaps smaller than the election systems margin of error. The term Hanging Chads , from the 2000 U.S Presidential election , is now part of the American vocabulary, and locally here in Washington State our last gubernatorial election in 2004 required 3 recounts with the final winner being determined by a margin of only...
 
Tags: machine security concerns, security concerns, election systems, election, security, security researchers, election systems margin, margin, election management system
 
 
 
 
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Web Server Software and Malware

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2007-06-05 09:30:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
...margin of error as it is not unusual to find hundreds of domains served by a single IP address Web server software across the Internet Web server software distribution across the Internet Our numbers report a slightly larger fraction of Apache servers compared to the Netcraft web server survey . Our analysis is based on crawl...
 
Tags: servers serve malware, servers, apache servers, malicious servers, web server software, server software, web servers, microsoft iis, microsoft iis features
 
 
 
 
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Phishers, Spammers, and Malware Authors Clearly Consolidating

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2007-12-09 21:14:53 by HASH0x89fa6a4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...margin for providing the service of segmentation The unknown attackers managed to access a non-classified computer maintained by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory by sending employees hoax emails that contained malicious attachments. That allowed them to access a database containing the personal information of people who visited the lab over...
 
Tags: malware, malware attachments, malware attack, malware authors, hand malware authors, spammers, modern malware, storm worm malware, emails courtesy
 
 
 
 
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Got PCI? Another aspect of data security and PCI, I did not know

2007-12-06 17:17:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...margin game). As part of this, they already have built up best practices on how to handle data well and dont see PCI as providing immediate benefits I suspect they all have looked at their environments from a PCI perspective. Some have concluded they meet many of the requirements and thus are not under imminent risk. Others may have decided...
 
Tags: pci, pci boxes, best-in-class, class, pci perspective, best-in-class retailers, retailers, pci compliance, high-end analysis capabilities
 
 
 
 
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Money for nothin, code for free - if you don't own the copyright you could be in Dire Straits

2008-03-19 01:45:00 by HASH0x8aede64 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...margin to pay for any software. They could fork the software and develop it themselves or hope to develop a community to continue development, but I haven't seen that pulled off very often, if at all To stay with Bob's money for nothin theme, if he does not protect against this, Untangle could find themselves in dire straits
 
Tags: software untangle, software, core software, source security software, commercial, commercial product, source, source code, larger commercial customers
 
 
 
 
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Hannaford Supermarkets

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2008-03-22 12:27:00 by Random InfoSec Guy in Security Coin
...margin for errors in reads during swipes etc before authorizing a transaction Interesting Update: According to this article, there are around 1800 cases of related fraud so far, and they talk about a $1270 charge going through. Which really means there are authorization engines out there that don't seem to care about the customer name in a...
 
Tags: card, debit card, pci, track data, pci dss, data, hannaford supermarkets, hannaford, pci compliant
 
 
 
 
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Summarizing June's Threatscape

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2008-07-01 07:05:01 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...margins are driving the entire business model. With script kiddies running their own botnets and undermining the sophisticated botnet master's high profit margin business model by undercutting their prices, stolen credit cards are not what they used to be - an exclussive good. Nowadays, they are a commodity good and often a bargain 03....
 
Tags: site, fake youtube site, web site defacements, malware, malware hosts, web site defacer, sites, vulnerable sites, malicious
 
 
 
 
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StubHub millionaires?

2008-07-03 01:08:05 by HASH0x8b4fb1c in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...margin is closer to 60 to 70%. He keeps a few tickets for him and his family to go to a few games a year This started as a hobby for him with Yankee season tickets, but he has done an analysis and compared to what he would make investing that money in the market, he has come out way, way ahead. He thinks that on a 12,500 investment, he makes...
 
Tags: tickets, yankee season tickets, buys season tickets, ticket, ticket agent, season, ticket sales, season ticket holder, extra tickets