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Adware and Spyware Such a Pain

2007-08-01 19:17:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...Pain Spywares and adwares are not only annoying but more often than not tend to damage your computer software and sometimes can even cause some damage to your hardware too. These annoying bugs have become a bane for internet browsers worldwide. They have become a normal occurrence that we sometimes tend to ignore but God forbid we should...
 
 
 
 
 
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Reliability Vs. Security

2007-12-07 16:46:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...painted a picture of the disaster scenarios we spend a heroic amount of effort trying to avoid and talked about the technical and organizational challenges to getting it right. But after the talk, the discussion centered on a broader topic: is security more difficult to achieve than reliability? Afterwards, a gaggle of professors from five...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Daily Incite - January 31, 2008

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2008-01-31 06:34:27 by Mike Rothman in Mike Rothman's blog
...paint two cases in point. First, I've been doing a lot of road work lately, which means a lot of airports, hotels and the like. I expect the situation to be mostly miserable because I've been doing this for a long time, and the attraction of life on the road faded many years ago This week, I found myself in a airport with about an hour...
 
 
 
 
 
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700,000 records on stolen CCB server

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2008-04-22 14:57:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Pain, Advanced Physical Therapy, Alternative Care Experience, Anderson General Surgery, Andrew Dick MD, Anesthesia, Aqua Systems, Associated Billing, "Barbara Sturm, MD", Brad Sammons DDS, Brien Grow DO, Buchanan Counseling Services, Campion Barrow & Assoc., Cardiothoracis Surgeons, Cardiovascular Diagnostic Services, Carl Foster MD, Caryn...
 
 
 
 
 
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Just Because Youre An Expert Doesnt Make You An Expert

2008-04-29 01:14:34 by rmogull in securosis.com
 
...pain. She did not remember the accident The next bit went like this DAD (Dumb Ass Doctor): Here, lets put this under her head [holding rolled-up jacket Me: Sir, we dont want to do that DAD: Im a doctor. Its fine, she was walking around [Note, most patients who scramble out of their overturned car through the missing windshield wander around a...
 
 
 
 
 
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Ch-Ch-(Ex)Changes

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2008-01-03 06:57:26 by Mike Rothman in Mike Rothman's blog
...pain, but I can delete and archive messages. Thus I only deal with most messages (unless they need a label) once - which is critical to my workflow I tried to do IMAP from my BB to Gmail, but the sync wasn't clean. If I deleted anything using the Gmail interface (or Mail.app for that matter), I had to also delete it on the BB. Not...
 
 
 
 
 
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DLP Article In Information Security Magazine Now Online

2008-02-25 16:53:29 by rmogull in securosis.com
 
...pain meds. I couldnt think, couldnt focus, couldnt even read or watch a full length movie. I still had plenty of pain, barely slept, and definitely didnt notice much happy in the little pills. Friday, after a client mentioned her husband bailed on the meds the first week, I went cold turkey during the days and almost immediately felt better....
 
 
 
 
 
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"High-level" vs Fluffy vs Dumb vs Irrelevant?

2007-11-28 14:54:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...pain (I have given a few exec-level presentations in my time), I also think there is another underlying cause for this: basically, people do not want their execs to know what is going on Third : " ... executives at big companies can't comprehend at a 1st grade level. That's a load of crap. Fortune class executives understand exactly what the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Don't Try This At Home

2007-11-05 21:52:28 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...pain. Id like to explain why Designing security mitigations is a skill. If Im trying to design a database, my personal lack of database skills will be obvious: it will be slow, it might lose data, and well discover theres a problem very quickly. In contrast, if Im designing a cryptosystem, I might not be able to break my own design. This is a...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Trouble with Threat Modeling

2007-09-26 19:11:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...pain. You want expert advice, and you want the experts to agree Most of the threat modeling processes previously taught at Microsoft were long and complex, having as many as 11 steps. Thats a lot of steps to remember. There are steps which are much easier if youre an expert who understands the process. For example, asset enumeration. Lets say...