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Modelling Situations for Event Processing

2008-07-15 05:04:21 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...observe the state of 15 components of a situation in the detection process; we also need to observe the relationship between the components So, lets say the situation we are looking for is commercial air plane collision and we are building a model of this situation. To keep the model simple we will limit the model to airplanes and omit...
 
Tags: model, airplane collision model, simple model, model simple, situations, hierarchical model, complex model, simple airplane model, real-time situation detection
 
 
 
 
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Web Server Software and Malware

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2007-06-05 09:30:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
...observed a long tail of Apache server versions; the top three detected were 1.3.37 (15%), 1.3.33 (7.91%), and 2.0.54 (6.25 Amongst Microsoft servers, IIS 6.0 is by far the most popular version, making up about 80% of all IIS servers. IIS 5.0 made up most of the remainder Web server software across servers distributing malware We examined...
 
Tags: servers serve malware, servers, apache servers, malicious servers, web server software, server software, web servers, microsoft iis, microsoft iis features
 
 
 
 
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Thwarting a large-scale phishing attack

2007-06-11 11:35:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...observed hijacked accounts being used to spread bulletin board spam for some advertising revenue. According to this interview with a phisher , phishers also logged in to the email accounts of the profile owners to harvest financial account information. In any case, phishing MySpace became profitable enough (more than phishing more traditional...
 
Tags: myspace, myspace profiles, real myspace content, myspace account, attack, dummy myspace account, phishers move, phishers, lower-value sites
 
 
 
 
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Convergence of Access and Information Policies

2007-07-10 00:00:00 by Sean Kline in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...observe how our worldview has evolved. While we were not the first to report the deterioration of perimeters as a means to protect information, the industry still appears to operate in a very segmented fashion. I spoke at the Network Applications Consortium Spring Conference and there was great industry participation and discussion around...
 
Tags: information, authorization, enterprise authorization management, network applications consortium, protect information, industry, industry participation, segments authentication, conference
 
 
 
 
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NGO Security Scenario #8

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2007-12-03 03:23:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
...observe a small food distribution program. After a several hour journey with a staff member, you arrive. An excited group of people has been waiting for the truck and the staff member begins distributing the food. Press the play button below to see what happens What potential threats do you recognize? What questions do you have for the...
 
Tags: food distribution program, food, kenya, staff, senior management based, kenya-sudan border, distribution site, hour journey, play button
 
 
 
 
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Would armed security officers in Omaha have saved lives?

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2007-12-11 00:17:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
...observe. That is what they would have had to do in Colorado Springs if none of the security officers had been armed. According to the Pastor there, more than 100 people may have been murdered by the high-powered rifle wielding killer. However, one officer was armed and the news is now hailing this officer as a heroine Back to Mr. Greene. Mr....
 
Tags: officer, female security officer, security, security officers, police, police officers, police officer, security officer, mall
 
 
 
 
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Killing spree at Omaha mall

2007-12-08 18:03:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...observe those entering. If a person entering a mall is smuggling in an assault rifle, as Robert Hawkins did, they should appear suspicious and have been approached. Surveillance cameras should be placed liberally throughout the mall and the entire area should be kept under observation and continually scanned for suspicious behaviour The...
 
Tags: mall, post security officers, security officers, nebraska mall killings, officers, mall security, past week, robert hawkins, past
 
 
 
 
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Sexing up the logs

2008-04-03 04:00:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...observe behaviour on systems over time and identify anomolies. Here's an example. Let's say that every morning at 9am you would expect to see log output stating a successful startup sequence for a particular device or application. If one morning this log entry fails to appear then you have an anomoly to investigate. Of course the issue might...
 
Tags: logs, logs enables, security event logs, security, review logs, perform security functions, log, log output, information security events
 
 
 
 
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Redmondmag...I told you so!

2008-05-18 12:36:00 by Russ McRee in HolisticInfoSec.org
 
...observe the following http://www.whiteacid.org/misc/xss post forwarder.php?xss target=http://search.redmondmag.com/search.asp&cmd=search&SearchForm=%%SearchForm%%&index=C:dtSearchrmgred all&sort=Date&srcrequest=%22%3E%3CSCRIPT%3Ealert('XSS Alert')%3C/SCRIPT%3E&submit1=Search">http://www.whiteacid.org/misc/xss post forwarder.php?xss target...
 
Tags: xss vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities, current vulnerabilities, multiple xss vulnerabilities, xss, xss target, xss assistant, redmond media, xss alert
 
 
 
 
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Risk and Culture

2008-05-21 05:19:59 by schneier in Schneier on Security