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2007-10-30 22:12:27 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...Nick Brown's blog, " Memory sitck worms ." Nick mentions the MountPoints2 registry key, which keeps track of all USB drives your computer has ever seen. I'll admit, I didn't know this existed! I'm glad Nick wrote about it, though Nick also includes a little hack that effectively disables all files named "autorun.inf." Interesting, but...
 
Tags: autorun, nick, glad nick, mountpoints2 registry key, registry, nick mentions, disable autorun, key, memory sitck worms
 
 
 
 
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Romanian Script Kiddies and the Screensavers Botnet

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2008-04-08 03:48:40 by HASH0x8ae5de0 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...NICK Mq2kC01 USER las "" "pic.kauko.lt" :Px7aW6 USER las "" "Helsinki.FI.EU.Undernet.org" :Px7aW6 USERHOST Mq2kC01 NICK :Rk1zK50 AWAY :Eu te scuip in cap si'n gura, tu ma pupi in cur si'n pula MODE Mq2kC01 +i ISON loverboy loveru SirDulce JOIN #madarfakar USER kzg "" "Helsinki.FI.EU.Undernet.org" :Ho5xI1 NICK :Vm3uF52 MODE Mq2kC01 +wx And in...
 
Tags: botnet, botnet masters, script kiddies, romanian script kiddies, botnet courtesy, ny2fw15, alternative botnet, irc, irc bot
 
 
 
 
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Speaking of Security Podcast #61

2007-05-07 00:00:00 by Podcast Producers in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...Nick Selby , Senior Analyst and Director of the Enterprise Security Practice for The 451 Group about SIEM in this week's podcast. ( Neither Nick Selby nor The 451 Group has been directly compensated for Mr. Selby's participation in this recording
 
Tags: security, enterprise security practice, nick selby, selby, enterprise, matt buckley speaks, security information, increasingly hot topic, senior analyst
 
 
 
 
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Bogus security promises and how to detect them

2008-03-10 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b06a70 in Network World on Security
 
...Nick Selby humorously tackles issues such as the truth about data leakage products, smartphone protection, hotspot threats and the word "solution." Nick Selby leads The 451 Group's Enterprise Security Practice. Selby also serves as The 451 Group's Director of Research Operations, is on the faculty of the Institute for Applied Network...
 
Tags: nick selby leads, selby, true enterprise security, hotspot threats, threats, enterprise security practice, data leakage products, malware expert webcasts, white papers
 
 
 
 
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Speaking of Security Podcast #81

2007-10-22 00:00:00 by Podcast Producers in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...Nick Selby , Security Research Director from the analyst firm, The 451 Group, shares some key tips for securing web portals, by providing the right protection and level of access to information for trusted identities. To review the entire 9/25 webcast replay, visit www.rsa.com/webseminars
 
Tags: security research director, key tips, web portals, webcast replay, nick selby, analyst firm, comwebseminars, protection, shares
 
 
 
 
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Cracking passwords on a PlayStation

2007-12-03 16:37:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
...Nick Breese used a PS3 to crack supposedly strong eight-character passwords in hours. Typically, previous attempts to crack such passwords took days to get the same result I found this story via Kim's blog , where he points out that using password-based encryption is dangerous. What he's referring to is using encryption where the key is...
 
Tags: password, character password, key, password database, keyspace, 256-bit aes key, 40-bit keyspace, passwords, encryption
 
 
 
 
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Q&A: Data leak prevention pros and cons

2008-01-07 00:00:00 by Cara Garretson in Network World on Security
 
Anti-data leakage vendors make bold claims about how far their products can go to protect enterprises from unauthorized information sharing. This irks Nick Selby, head of enterprise security research at The 451 Group, who believes these tools are helpful with some tasks, but far from the solution
 
Tags: enterprise security research, anti-data leakage vendors, irks nick selby, protect enterprises, bold claims, tasks, head, tools, information
 
 
 
 
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2008-01-15 00:00:00 by Editor in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
Nick Selbys Blog Grisoft/EPL, SANS and some anti malware trend stuff
 
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OMG, This is Funny: BullshIT Awards :-)

2008-01-15 23:31:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
Nick Selby delivers: " The 2007 BullsIT Awards: The Top Ten Tech-Flack Quotes of the Year! Annotated Examples: "Our offering is very unique in the origination space." (#10) or "Its a single, interoperable, scalable, extensive security framework that protects the data today and tomorrow as the infrastructure changes." (#3) and of course his old...
 
Tags: nick selby delivers, extensive security framework, development cycle, bullsit awards, tech-flack quotes, origination space, relationship, research, protects
 
 
 
 
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Data leakage and being proactive about it..

2008-01-09 14:45:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...Nick Selby from the 451 Group also participated in an interesting Q&A on this Maybe the better approach is - start small (as always!). Much of it will be process focusses with help from the technologies currently emerging in this space. Be interesting to see how this area evolv