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Windows stalked by rogue packets?

2008-02-28 00:00:00 by Jason Meserve in Network World on Security
 
...packets and that any 'Net connected PC could be affected. Sounds scary, but I am sure it's just another day in the Redmond Patch Department. One thing that does scare me, given my "Out of office" message is on this week, is a story about how spammers are using such auto-reply messages as means to relay Spam. Hopefully, I am not inadvertently...
 
Tags: redmond patch department, windows, packets, security team, rogue, sounds scary, relay spam, auto-reply messages, story
 
 
 
 
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Network Security It Takes a Village

2008-05-14 13:05:15 by Louis DiMeglio in ScienceLogic
 
...packets per second. EM7 noticed a big bump in latency on that network segment at the same time that the Enterasys Dragon IDS caught the flood of packets. Both tools could tell the origin of the packets and traced them back to misconfigured video multicast devices. In this case Not Malicious, but the result was still degradation to that...
 
Tags: network, degrade network, temporary network takes, internal devices, enterasys dragon ids, devices, enterasys, network segment, dragon
 
 
 
 
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Eavesdropping on Encrypted Compressed Voice

2008-06-19 06:27:13 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...packets of data for different sounds That happens because the sampling rate is kept high for long complex sounds like "ow", but cut down for simple consonants like "c". This variable method saves on bandwidth, while maintaining sound quality VoIP streams are encrypted to prevent eavesdropping. However, a team from John Hopkins University in...
 
Tags: variable, variable method saves, compression technique, technique, john hopkins university, decode entire conversations, complex sounds, sounds, packets
 
 
 
 
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Q&A with Geoff Horne of InteropNet

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2008-06-25 16:20:59 by Louis DiMeglio in ScienceLogic
...packets. You always need switches, you always need routers. Weve tried to open it up to everyone that has products involved with networks to see if we have the time or space for it ScienceLogic: The kind of cooperation that you get between the vendors is what seems to be an unachievable nirvana for Enterprises. Whats the secret to getting 17...
 
Tags: geoff horne, network independently, network, core network, sciencelogic, vegas, interop vegas, interop, network management tools
 
 
 
 
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Times Up IPv6 OMB Mandate

2008-06-30 19:27:18 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
 
...packets. Fourteen still need to report in, but none have asked for an extension. And all of it was done through the regular tech refresh budget over the past three years. So if this is true, kudos to the feds Right around the time of the first not-so-rosy article, we ran a survey at FOSE , the big federal government IT show. We asked...
 
Tags: ipv6, aced ipv6 deadline, ipv6 packets, transmit ipv6 traffic, omb, ipv6 applications, actual ipv6 applications, agencies, twenty-four agencies
 
 
 
 
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Show 017 - An Interview with Eric Cole

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2007-08-24 20:19:43 by rmacmich in The Silver Bullet Security Podcast
...packets to control information leakage on TCP/IP based networks - Erics dissertation
 
Tags: security roi, security, network security practitioners, eric, eric cole, computer security, network security, eric discuss, secure anchor
 
 
 
 
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STRIDE chart

2007-09-11 23:18:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...packets into a black hole Authorization E levation of Privilege Gain capabilities without proper authorization Allowing a remote internet user to run commands is the classic example, but going from a limited user to admin is also EoP Update: fixed the table so it displays all four columns
 
Tags: threat, stride, windows, windows source code, web site, stride mitigations, code, user, remote internet user
 
 
 
 
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Process Doubling

2008-01-27 22:44:57 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...packets but some anti-DDoS boxes out there stop that sort of connection from even hitting a box. They do this for flood protection. They wait for a full TCP state to be initiated before they connect to the web server behind them (similar to a proxy server actually Heres where some programming skill could come into play. Why not re-program a...
 
Tags: web server, fairly complex set, set, fairly straight forward, egress, fairly easy, fairly common occurrence, easy, firewall egress
 
 
 
 
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Rogue packets stalk Windows Vista, XP

2008-02-26 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b54abc in Network World on Security
 
Just in time for spring, Microsoft has been busy tending to a new swarm of bugs, including a critical hole in Windows Vista and XP that could expose you to an early-season bite without your doing anything other than being online Fundamental Principles of Network Security Advertisement Protect the organization. Learn the 'Need To Know'...
 
Tags: network security, windows vista, critical hole, free paper, fundamental principles, advertisement, time, protect, bugs
 
 
 
 
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Training People on Threat Modeling

2008-03-14 23:11:12 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...packets into a black hole E levation of Privilege Authorization Gain capabilities without proper authorization Allowing a remote internet user to run commands is the classic example, but going from a limited user to admin is also EoP Ians post is here https://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001013.html . IE users will see a warning...
 
Tags: web site, site, threat, windows, windows source code, code, people, degrade service, non-repudiation