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Whats driving the MSSP craze - critical, but non-core functions are fair game for outsourcing

2008-06-13 03:29:37 by HASH0x8bb419c in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
I don't know what it is, but lately everyone I am speaking to is talking SaaS, outsourcing and MSSPs. Just today I was reading Neil Roiter's column on the latest acquisition by Perimeter eSecurity. The MSSP acquisition kings have now bought Edgeos, a vulnerability scanning service. I don't really know alot about them, but it seems their...
 
Tags: critical, non-core, core, critical activities, non-core activities, activities, security, mssp, outsource core
 
 
 
 
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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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Threat Modeling at Microsoft

2008-10-13 06:21:53 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Interesting paper by Adam Shostack: Abstract. Describes a decade of experience threat modeling products and services at Microsoft. Describes the current threat modeling methodology used in the Security Development Lifecycle. The methodology is a practical approach, usable by non-experts, centered on data ow diagrams and a threat enumeration...
 
Tags: paper, paper closes, security analysis techniques, paper covers, threat enumeration technique, security development lifecycle, microsoft, experience threat, current threat
 
 
 
 
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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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Zebras and Aardvarks

2008-08-25 03:02:30 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
We all know that different people get different amounts of email spam . Some of these differences result from how careful people have been in hiding their address from the spammers putting it en claire on a webpage will definitely improve your chances of receiving unsolicited email However, it turns out theres other effects as well. In a paper I...
 
Tags: email address local, local, email address, address, non-spam, spam, considers real aardvarks, real, aardvarks
 
 
 
 
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OMG, This Is So 20th Century :-)

2007-12-11 23:32:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
SANS folks debunk the old idiocy There is nothing on my computer that a hacker would be interested in Holy chao! :-) I was hoping that people - by now!!! - would already know that their CPUs, disks, connections are pretty useful to criminals .... And, yes, so is their data Forward the SANS piece to all you non-computer / non-IT friends ......
 
Tags: folks, sans folks debunk, non-it friends, non-computer, holy chao, sans piece, computer, sadly, connections
 
 
 
 
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