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UltimateBet cheating goes undetected for almost 21 months

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2008-06-04 10:55:17 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...ownership of UltimateBet prior to the sale of the business to Tokwiro in October 2006 Evan] Shouldn't an information security and risk assessment be conducted as part of the acquisition and integration? If so, then wouldn't a code review of the proprietary software that came with the acquisition be included? This is the proprietary software...
 
Tags: ultimatebet, tokwiro enterprises enrg, tokwiro enterprises, ultimatebet issues statement, ultimatebet prior, ultimatebet subsequently, ultimatebet immediately removes, ultimatebet servers, ultimatebet statement
 
 
 
 
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Economics of secure software

2007-01-21 10:13:02 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...ownership for the customer Below is a mathematical representation (not the basis!) for the above statement for the curious Price = Initial Purchase Price of the Product Life = Life Cycle Cost of the Product $ = Y*Price (expressed in terms of multiple of Price TCO = Total Cost of Ownership TCO= Price + Life=Price + Y* Price ---> Equation 1...
 
Tags: software, secure, secure product, product, software vendor, software vendors, vendor, price, initial purchase price
 
 
 
 
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SDL Training

2008-05-29 15:22:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...ownership for our fuzzing strategy and on-going research and science, there are specific goals and requirements, we have training (remember the peaches?), and internally developed fuzzers have won prestigious awards within the company, handed out by members of the executive staff, and all of this gets revisited periodically as part of the...
 
Tags: real behavior change, behavior, sdl, change peoples behavior, security, security guy, security defects, defects, security class
 
 
 
 
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How to Steal the Empire State Building

2008-12-15 12:23:14 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...ownership of the Empire State Building to himself. Yes, it's a stunt : The office of the city register, upon receipt of the phony documents prepared by the newspaper, transferred ownership of the 102-story building from Empire State Land Associates to Nelots Properties, LLC. Nelots is "stolen" spelled backward To further enhance the absurdity...
 
Tags: empire, star fay wray, file legal papers, nelots properties, notorious bank robber, commit fraud, fraud, nelots, willie sutton
 
 
 
 
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SmartWater Works

2008-01-21 12:17:39 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...ownership. I think a better idea would be for me to paint it on your valuables, and then call the police That remark aside, a new university study concludes that it works: The study of over 100 criminals revealed that simply displaying signs that goods and premises were protected by SmartWater was sufficient to put off most of the criminals...
 
Tags: smartwater, smartwater products, deterrent, smartwater postersign, reasonable deterrent, deterrent factor, study, strong, strong deterrent effect
 
 
 
 
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Awareness in Installing Some Types of Software

2007-08-01 19:14:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...ownership to a wrong person because of stolen Credit Card numbers, passwords, and other personal identifications robbed thru the internet in forms of spywares that camouflaged use-legalities that are merely ignored by users and computer owners Adware and Spyware software present a totally different usage in program inclusions, and for the...
 
Tags: software, spyware software, computer owners, support adware usage, original computer owners, usage, adware, spyware, adware companies
 
 
 
 
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Computers stolen from J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines

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2008-02-22 12:06:49 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...ownership program (ESOP Reference URL The New Hampshire State Attorney General breach notification Report Credit The New Hampshire State Attorney General Response From the online source cited above On December 19, 2007, a thief broke into a locked office at the Company's headquarters and stole two computers We immediately reported the...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, lohr, lohr vineyards, information, employees, lohr employees, information security dollars, personnel information
 
 
 
 
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Fun TLR Log Management Questions

2008-03-14 12:04:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...ownership issues" (see some discussion here ) If you need to submit a paper form in triplicate to add a line to /etc/syslog.conf and then send more forms when something doesn't work right and you need to troubleshoot it (a real story), everything becomes painfully slow and inefficient Enjoy! Again, here is the link to the webcast recording...
 
Tags: log, log ownership issues, log services, log messagessecond, log management, log management solution, management, log sources, incident response team
 
 
 
 
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The Security Mindset

2008-03-25 05:27:19 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...ownership," I wrote when I first learned about the idea. "I think a better idea would be for me to paint it on your valuables, and then call the police Really, we can't help it This kind of thinking is not natural for most people. It's not natural for engineers. Good engineering involves thinking about how things can be made to work; the...
 
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The Security Mindset

2008-03-25 05:27:19 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...ownership," I wrote when I first learned about the idea. "I think a better idea would be for me to paint it on your valuables, and then call the police Really, we can't help it This kind of thinking is not natural for most people. It's not natural for engineers. Good engineering involves thinking about how things can be made to work; the...
 
Tags: security mindset, mindset, security mindset immediately, security mindset explains, security mindset simply, security, security mindset involves, involves, security requires