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Al Qaeda Recruiting Non-Muslims

2008-01-24 08:55:00 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
This is an about non-Muslims being recruited in the UK: As many as 1,500 white Britons are believed to have converted to Islam for the purpose of funding, planning and carrying out surprise terror attacks inside the UK, according to one MI5 source This quote is particularly telling: One British security source last night told Scotland on Sunday:...
 
Tags: british security source, real potential danger, people blend, mi5 source, white britons, non-muslims, domestic security, sunday, islam
 
 
 
 
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Non-cooperation in the fight against phishing

2008-10-16 13:32:24 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
Tyler Moore and I are presenting another one of our academic phishing papers today at the Anti-Phishing Working Groups Third eCrime Researchers Summit here in Atlanta, Georgia. The paper The consequence of non-cooperation in the fight against phishing ( pre-proceedings version here ) goes some way to explaining anomalies we found in our previous...
 
Tags: companies, brand protection companies, take-down companies reckon, take-down companies, data feeds, data, website lifetimes, lifetimes, company
 
 
 
 
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News Report on Non Vulnerability in Windows Vista

2008-11-20 18:41:16 by Chris Wysopal in Zero in a bit
 
Are editors so excited to use the headline Vulnerability in Windows Vista in their SEO URLs that they will have their reporters write a story on a non-issue IDG News has published a news report titled, Researchers find vulnerability in Windows Vista . The report says An Austrian security vendor has found a vulnerability in Windows Vista that it...
 
Tags: windows vista, vulnerability, news report, report, bug fix, bug, headline vulnerability, austrian security vendor, news outlets pick
 
 
 
 
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Cyber Jihadist Hacking Teams

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2007-12-17 20:03:29 by HASH0x847073c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
These groups and fractions of religiously brainwashed IT enthusiasts utilizing outdated ping and HTTP GET flooding attack tools, represent today's greatly overhyped threat possed by the cyber jihadists whose cheap PSYOPS dominate, given the lack of strategical thinking, and the lack of sustainable communication channels between them, ruined all...
 
Tags: anti-islamic web sites, islamic web sites, web, jihad, electronic jihad program, campaign, electrnic jihad campaign, web sites, cyber jihad
 
 
 
 
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New Audio comment line number - +1-415-830-5439 (and ditching K7.net)

2007-12-19 11:03:29 by HASH0x89eb6f0 in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
Here is our new comment line number: +1-415-830-5439 Here's the story To my immense annoyance, it seems that we have once again lost our K7.net call-in number for comments: +1-206-350-7280. That isn't the bad part, really... what annoys me most is that the number still appears to work! You can call it up and leave a message, but if it goes...
 
Tags: comment, standard comment line, comment line, wrong comment line, call, call control xml, net call-in, net, fax message
 
 
 
 
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New Audio comment line number - +1-415-830-5439 (and ditching K7.net)

2007-12-19 12:01:39 by Dan York in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
Here is our new comment line number: +1-415-830-5439 Here's the story To my immense annoyance, it seems that we have once again lost our K7.net call-in number for comments: +1-206-350-7280. That isn't the bad part, really... what annoys me most is that the number still appears to work! You can call it up and leave a message, but if it goes...
 
Tags: comment, standard comment line, comment line, wrong comment line, call, call control xml, net call-in, net, fax message
 
 
 
 
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EarthLink Will Shutter Philadelphia Network, Company Says

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2008-05-13 09:48:07 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
It's the end of the cycle, folks: The first shall be last and the last shall, apparently, be first to sue. The Philadelphia Wi-Fi network will be shuttered under plans by EarthLink that they announced via press release today The company plans to pull all its gear from the poles starting 12-June-2008. The company's press release said it offered...
 
Tags: network, wi-fi, philadelphia wi-fi network, earthlink, network provider, philadelphia, public access network, company, earthlink filed
 
 
 
 
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July 2007 - Operating System Vulnerability Scorecard

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2007-08-16 22:47:26 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
Summer and work travel have really had an impact and I've missed a couple of months of scorecards, so last weekend, I decided to dig in and catch up to July. I hit a few road bumps Sun changed their Security Alerts web site, making it a bit more challenging. I gave up for now, but will try to add them back with subsequent scorecards Novell, in a...
 
Tags: server, linux server builds, server charts, charts, ytd charts, non-linux products, linux products, linux products comments, common server roles
 
 
 
 
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K.I.S.S. the castle (analogy) good-bye! Okay, done - now what?

2008-03-30 12:50:51 by Thomas Raschke in Security & Risk Management
 
Think for a moment about the very simple, used-to-death castle analogy with its walls, gates, guns, guards, etc. and how these parts related to early network security. The analogy certainly had its shortcomings already back then but it nevertheless got popular because of its inherent simplicity In todays complex data and identity driven world of...
 
Tags: castle, castle metaphor, security, non-security folks, analogy, todays security, castle simply, network security, used-to-death castle analogy