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Is there any reason to go to Black Hat still?

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2008-07-23 07:58:05 by HASH0x8b10820 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...obvious, DNS. I didn't do an actual count of how many times it was mentioned (as Mr Bump did with NAC vendors mentioned in the Information Week NAC survey ), but there had to be at least a dozen and half, if not more articles on the great DNS leak of 2008 Dan Kaminsky's research was exemplary, but his naivete about people keeping the exploit...
 
Tags: dns flaw, dns flaw public, dns, dns bug, black hat, dns leak, kaminsky, kaminsky hack, major internet flaw
 
 
 
 
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Review of My 2007 Security Predictions: Too Wimpy

2007-12-23 15:46:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...obviously true. The concept of risk is still a mystery to many in security (e.g see this survey ) and it will likely remain so for a while. Puleeease PV. NAC: of course, no list of 2007 prediction is valid without mentioning knack :-) And you know what? NAC will shrink, NOT grow in importance this year! This is where the rubber meets the road...
 
Tags: status check iii, status check, status check viii, security, security predictions, status check vii, check, predictions, status
 
 
 
 
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My 2008 Security Predictions!

2008-01-09 15:42:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...obvious dribble that they either predict every year until it finally happens or is so nebulous that they claim success if a butterfly flaps its wings in Liechtenstein." :-) Amen to that, Rich. Onwards to my 2008 predictions So, just as in 2006 and 2007 , I am coming up with security predictions that cover both technology and market. I just...
 
Tags: security, security predictions, broader information security, information security, smb security, virtual security appliances, security market, security solutions, security software
 
 
 
 
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The Feeling and Reality of Security

2008-04-08 05:50:01 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...obvious that a wall keeps people out, so arguing against building a wall across America's southern border to keep illegal immigrants out is harder to do The other thing that matters is agenda . There are lots of people, politicians, companies and so on who deliberately try to manipulate your feeling of security for their own gain. They try to...
 
Tags: trade-offs, security trade-offs based, trade-offs intelligently, security trade-offs endemic, security trade-offs wrong, security trade-offs, security, endemic, security matches
 
 
 
 
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The Feeling and Reality of Security

2008-04-08 05:50:01 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...obvious that a wall keeps people out, so arguing against building a wall across America's southern border to keep illegal immigrants out is harder to do The other thing that matters is agenda . There are lots of people, politicians, companies and so on who deliberately try to manipulate your feeling of security for their own gain. They try to...
 
Tags: trade-offs, security trade-offs based, trade-offs intelligently, security trade-offs endemic, security trade-offs wrong, security trade-offs, security, endemic, security matches
 
 
 
 
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Shimel's theory of security company relativity or why there are so damn many security companies

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2008-04-10 22:08:39 by HASH0x8b4586c in StillSecure, After All These Years
...obvious that there is a lot of overlap and not very obvious what some of these companies do. However, there is a very small number of security companies that are public and have revenue of over lets say 100 million dollars. Of those the overwhelming majority are in the AV and firewall business. In fact the smallest AV guys probably dwarf the...
 
Tags: companies, security companies, company, security company relativity, security company, revenue, revenue level, revenue levels, million
 
 
 
 
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Measuring Vulnerability

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2008-04-14 14:31:38 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is
...obvious (anyway Losses occur when threat events take place that were vulnerable to. This is true whether were talking about weather events, human error, or malicious acts. Obviously, we dont experience loss with every threat event, which means were only vulnerable sometimes i.e., less than 100% of the time. This means there is some...
 
Tags: threat capability curve, capability, human capability, human threat capability, describe control strength, control strength, capability curve, threat community capability, control
 
 
 
 
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Shimel's theory of security company relativity or why there are so damn many security companies

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2008-04-10 20:16:32 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...obvious that there is a lot of overlap and not very obvious what some of these companies do. However, there is a very small number of security companies that are public and have revenue of over lets say 100 million dollars. Of those the overwhelming majority are in the AV and firewall business. In fact the smallest AV guys probably dwarf the...
 
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Airlines Profiting from TSA Rules

2008-05-20 06:51:32 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...obvious that "Jan" and "Janet" were one and the same. There were suggestions that a new ticket might need to be purchased. "We didn't let it get to that," he recalls. Instead, he asked to speak with a supervisor who could finally fix the codes so that the ticket and passport matched up. How did all of this happen in the first place? Turns out...
 
Tags: ticket, award ticket, security, transportation security administration, ticket slide, security personnel, tsa rule, airlines, frequent flier account