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Mashup of the Titans

2008-06-25 17:29:25 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...normal use (since normal use usually does not include attempts to exercise improper access paths). As a result, techniques such as line-by-line inspection of software and physical examination of hardware that implements protection mechanisms are necessary. For such techniques to be successful, a small and simple design is essential ...
 
Tags: protection mechanisms, protection mechanisms correctly, information security, information, implements protection mechanisms, information travels, information security people, protection, potential information path
 
 
 
 
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Supporting your family, friends, and neighbors

2008-02-13 17:45:40 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...normal people dont do when going about their daily lives (face it, we IT pros arent normal ). So the monthly late-evening phone call usually wasnt a burden. Alas, those days are now nothing more than wistful memories You see, the bad guys (and, increasingly, girls) who lurk in the Internets dark alleys and secret passages have discovered that...
 
Tags: suspicious e-mail message, mail, home computers defense, home computers, e-mail, home, web mail, windows live mail, site
 
 
 
 
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Logging, Correlation and IT Search: An Analogy

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2008-06-06 17:00:00 by JJ in Security Uncorked
...normal its probably normal for your husband to come home, do some work on the computer while you cook, and then everyone watch TV. The kids are doing their homework, playing on the computer and probably rummaging around the fridge for an after-school snack. You see your syslogging toaster shows you the src= Refrigerator was opened multiple...
 
Tags: kids, src kids computer, src, src livingroom tv, house, in-house, house gateways, src front door, kid1
 
 
 
 
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NY STAR: An accident waiting to happen

2006-03-02 22:37:31 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...normal traffic is public information, assessors are not necessarily tuned to protecting private personal information. For a recent example of a public record agency handling private data, see the story of how the Suffolk County (NY) clerks normal processes put a few thousand SSNs in the public record [via Emergent Chaos Perhaps all these...
 
Tags: information, store information, income information, personal information, personal financial information, public, public record agency, public information, assessors
 
 
 
 
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Snoop Dogg's out-of-shape bodyguard

2008-03-17 03:50:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...normal house in a normal neighborhood. One of them then mentioned that he was still quite famous since he employed a Bodyguard That was the part that got my attention and made me call in to the radio show. Being the owner of a security company that hires and trains bodyguards, or as we prefer to call them: Personal Protection Specialists, I...
 
Tags: snoop dogg, wjfk radio week, radio, bodyguard, personal protection specialists, protection, week, sexton executive security, unfit
 
 
 
 
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2FA is dead

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2008-04-29 09:19:31 by Editor in Security x.0
...normally take the form of a key fob which displays a number that changes every few seconds, but another approach is to require the customer to insert their bank card into a stand-alone reader. Unfortunately, there is nothing to stop an attacker using a 2FA authentication code to commit fraud In the classic Man in the Middle attack, the...
 
Tags: real bank site, bank site, browser, browser attacks, bank, bank details, browser attack, 2fa, transaction
 
 
 
 
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Modelling Financial Risk Seminar

2006-08-01 02:13:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...Normal Distribution Historical Simulations for Measuring Risk Monte Carlo Simulations for Measuring Risk Stress Testing VaR in the Absence of Normality Liquidity Risk Model Risk Maximum Likelihood Estimation Course Schedule Thursday 17 August 2006 - 5:30pm to 8:30pm Friday 18 August 2006 - 5:30pm to 8:30pm Saturday 19 August 2006 - 9:00am to...
 
Tags: risk, risk management professionals, risk management, risk measurement, liquidity risk, model risk, singapore conference hall, singapore, initial topics
 
 
 
 
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Thwarting a large-scale phishing attack

2007-06-11 11:35:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...normal, redirected the user to a phishing page. Here's a sample of some CSS code injected into the "About Me" section of an affected profile a style="text-decoration:none;position absolute;top:1px;left:1px;" href="http://myspacev.net">
 
Tags: myspace, myspace profiles, real myspace content, myspace account, attack, dummy myspace account, phishers move, phishers, lower-value sites
 
 
 
 
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Some Yahoo! employees exposed through mistaken email

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2007-12-12 15:11:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...normal email channels People who don't know, need to understand that standard email is "clear-text" communication. Anyone from you to the recipient can intercept and read the contents of the email To demonstrate, let's say that I am sending my online bank password to my wife via email, to her Google email account, Gmail (a no-no, but a demo...
 
Tags: fidelity investments, fidelity, fidelity inadvertently, fidelity investments client, email, fidelity investments inadvertently, yahoo, administrator, email administrator
 
 
 
 
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The top 10 spam characteristics (#6-10)

2006-09-27 06:01:03 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog