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Focus on software assurance increases in U.S., U.K. and other markets

2007-11-15 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...nefarious actors breaking into systems to commit espionage; or in the case of entire countries (e.g. Estonia) that have seen their critical infrastructure attacked via cyberspace - governments have become increasingly focused on product security. The issue of security within products that are integral parts of systems or networks is clearly...
 
 
 
 
 
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Initiating Probes Against Servers Via Other Servers

2007-12-09 22:41:37 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...nefarious purposes by only scanning the port of the IP address you are originating from. Then I thought, wait, I can come from anywhere that I can get to request this page. The first page that came to mind? W3Cs validator Click here to see W3Cs validator requesting and getting the results of GRCs probe against W3Cs port 80 . Pretty esoteric,...
 
 
 
 
 
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Common Criteria and answering the question 'Is it Safe'

2007-12-20 16:57:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...nefarious purpose. Security professionals have various frameworks on how to define safe that usually factor in some of the following considerations 1) Value of protected assets 2) Assumptions about the sophistication of and level of resources available to an attacker. Defining attacker can cover a spectrum that ranges from a well intentioned...
 
 
 
 
 
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FaxBox: the latest in password scams

2008-01-07 18:09:34 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...nefarious supreme being you now strongly wish would unleash itself on FaxBox and their ilk So in this case, I'm certainly not going to click on the link to stop receiving more emails. Rather, I'll put fanbox.com , fanboxapps.com , and while I'm at it, sms.ac in my blocked senders list. I recommend you do the same, and get the word out to your...
 
 
 
 
 
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First Magnus Financial customer data found in dumpster

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2008-02-21 13:56:43 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...nefarious. I wonder where the documents are now and who has access to them, supposing they still exist Not only did First Magnus have a business responsibility for the protection of senstive information (which ceases with the business), but they also have a moral responsibility (which does not cease Past Breaches Unknown
 
 
 
 
 
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Got Sopranos? Yet another thing I did not know as much about

2007-11-26 20:55:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...nefarious goals The point to note here is this : there is a lot of money at stake. This makes cardholder data a target in this illegal and very organized crime business. For companies handling cardholder data, being fully PCI compliant in spirit and letter is the best way to foil this There still will be breaches, but lets at least make the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Jonathan L. Zittrain

2008-04-07 06:19:01 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Jonathan Zittrain, author of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It , talks about "generativity" vs. lockdown, sleuthing out nefarious filtering projects around the world, and using social solutions to solve security problems
 
 
 
 
 
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Crimeware in the Middle - Zeus

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2008-04-24 04:37:46 by HASH0x8ae4648 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...nefarious type of Trojan for multiple reasons 1. The Zeus Trojan is a kit for sale: Anyone in the criminal community can purchase it for roughly $700. This means that the Rock group did not need to develop new skill-sets to write Trojan horses; they just purchased it on the open market. In the past 6 months RSA's Anti-Fraud Command Center...
 
 
 
 
 
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Essential (and free) security downloads for Windows

2008-05-28 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b24a4c in Network World on Security
 
To use an Internet-connected computer is to be insecure and place your privacy in danger. Spyware, viruses, Trojans and assorted malware are everywhere on the Net, trying to hop onto your PC and cause damage. Snoopers want to get at your personal information for nefarious purposes, such as identity theft