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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Beaks for Artificial Limbs?

2008-04-04 16:38:29 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...materials, changes density gradually from the hard tip to a softer, more flexible base where it attaches to the muscle around the squid's mouth, the researchers found That means the tough beak can chomp away at fish for dinner, but the hard material doesn't press or rub directly against the squid's softer tissues Herbert Waite, a professor in...
 
Tags: squid, squid beaks, biomedical materials, biomedical, materials, medical materials, hard materials occur, beak, squid beak
 
 
 
 
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CISA and CISSP Preparation

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2008-07-31 13:14:07 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
...materials on areas identified as your weaknesses Re-benchmark, and repeat targeted reviews until ready For the first certification that I prepared for, I did not perform the first three steps outlined above. I went directly to the official source materials and began trying to review them cover to cover. I passed the exam, but I also spent a...
 
Tags: exam, exam requirements, cissp exam preparation, half-length exam, exam cram series, certification exam, exam preparation materials, preparation materials, cissp
 
 
 
 
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In Next-Gen Bullets and Bombs, Even the Casing Explodes

2008-05-07 01:00:00 by David Hambling in Wired Security
 
...materials," normally harmless matter that combines to release explosive amounts of energy on impact, tearing targets apart with violent fury In development for more than 30 years, the research is beginning to bear fruit, and may soon spawn more powerful bombs, warheads that tear apart stone and concrete, mines that can be set to stun or kill,...
 
Tags: amounts, release explosive amounts, release, metal, hollow metal cone, explosive, energy, reliably release energy, metal liner
 
 
 
 
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What should done about employees stealing in the workplace?

2008-02-21 05:25:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...materials from the warehouse and selling it to other individuals. The owner had heard stories circulating about the managers dishonesty but chose to disregard it for many years. We advised him that we would use different investigators and vehicles to follow the manager around and video tape him where he went and document the addresses From...
 
Tags: business owner, local business owner, owner, truck, company truck, company, investigation company, investigator video taped, investigator
 
 
 
 
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Software Security Metrics and Commentary - Part 2

2007-10-23 20:31:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...materials fail in sometimes new ways, new materials fail in unpredictable ways, and we still rely on sample and testing for analysis of a batch of materials The Quality of Protection workshop at the CCS conference is probably the best place to look for research in this area. Previous papers from the workshop can be found here . This years...
 
Tags: security metrics, software security metrics, metrics, software, metrics framework, metric, upstream sdl metrics, concrete metric, paper steve bellovin
 
 
 
 
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A Review of Hakin9 IT Security Magazine

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2008-05-26 05:12:53 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...materials The surplus of visual materials is perhaps what won me as a reader from the first moment. In fact, the issues are so rich on visual material illustrating the topic covered in such details, that you can actually take entire sniffing, and javascript obfuscation sessions offline with you, and never ever have to picture the output of a...
 
Tags: magazine, content, review, hardcode technical content, quality magazine, javascript obfuscation article, article, content quality, issue
 
 
 
 
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New Ban Proposed In UK Against Hacker Tools

2008-01-03 18:54:22 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...materials. This will no doubt simply force hackers to move their equipment offshore or go more underground - which could be bad for investigators, and for researchers alike
 
Tags: site, law, tools, exploitation materials, intent, bet money, scrupulous types, equipment offshore, researchers alike
 
 
 
 
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Prediction for 2008: Service providers avoid straightforward DTV answers

2008-01-04 21:12:01 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...materials Now, it is also true that for bandwidth utilization reasons, the cable companies would like to convert their cable plant to all-digital. If they somehow manage to convert all their cheap $8/month basic cable customers to some fatter bundle, all the better for them. The good thing is that digital OTA tuners will provide competition,...
 
Tags: ota, digital ota customer, analog, analog customers, analog ota reception, analog cable customers, analog cable systems, analog channels, cheap basic analog
 
 
 
 
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Cross Site Printing

2008-01-08 22:32:52 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...materials for weeks or years afterwards. Also, depending on what the spammers put on your printer, its possible this could get people fired, depending on the content of the print job (no pun intended). Very interesting research by Aaron Weaver
 
Tags: ascii art, cross site, aaron weaver, print, visit sites, printer, visit, inter protocol xss, print job
 
 
 
 
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Five-Year-Old Boy Detained by the TSA

2008-01-10 10:53:20<