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Pain Ray Test Subjects Exposed to 'Unconscionable Risks'

2008-10-14 12:00:00 by Sharon Weinberger in Wired Security
 
Last fall, Danger Room's Sharon Weinberger agreed to be a guinea pig in a demonstration of the Pentagon's controversial "pain ray." She was told the weapon was safe. But newly-obtained information shows that the pain ray's operators were dangerously undertrained -- exposing test subjects "to unconscionable risks
 
Tags: pain ray, test subjects, unconscionable risks, guinea pig, sharon weinberger, safe, pentagon, dangerously, information
 
 
 
 
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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...
 
Tags: spyware programs, decent anti-spyware programs, anti-spyware programs regularly, anti-spyware programs, spyware, free, popular free anti-spyware, spyware program, spyware program offer
 
 
 
 
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Pain Laser Finds New Special Forces Role

2008-09-15 14:30:00 by Noah Shachtman in Wired Security
 
The Pentagon abandons the laser weapon designed to produce maximum pain. But the Pulsed Energy Projectile, or PEP, may get a new life as a drone killer with the Special Forces
 
Tags: special forces, produce maximum pain, energy projectile, pentagon abandons, drone killer, laser weapon, pep, life
 
 
 
 
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Army Orders Pain Ray Trucks; New Report Shows 'Potential for Death'

2008-10-10 15:17:00 by David Hambling in Wired Security
 
...pain ray which drives off rioters with a microwave-like beam -- could finally have its day. The Army is buying five of the truck-mounted systems for $25 million. But the energy weapon may face new hurdles, before it's shipped off to the battlefield; a new report details how the supposedly non-lethal blaster could be turned into a flesh-frying...
 
Tags: pain ray, supposedly non-lethal blaster, active denial system, army, microwave-like beam, energy weapon, report details, rioters, killer
 
 
 
 
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PCI's Post-Audit Pain Points

2008-11-05 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b26e9c in Network World on Security
 
Those who thought their PCI security challenges would be over after the first passing compliance audit say they continue to be dogged by the same problems that caused pain in the beginning
 
Tags: pci security challenges, pain, compliance audit, continue
 
 
 
 
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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...
 
Tags: folks, reliability folks deal, reliability, reliability folks, security, bugs, reliability bugs, reliability analysis, software reliability
 
 
 
 
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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...
 
Tags: dds, gary taylor dds, gary hunt dds, lawrence falender dds, joseph meek dds, caryn guba dds, mark ellis dds, sarah akard dds, ccb
 
 
 
 
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IDS/IPS - is it Vitamins?

2008-09-24 18:35:00 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...Pain Killers because they have to address their pain right away. For Vitamins, they can wait. Stop and think for moment, without Anti-virus product, businesses can't run for few days. But, without IDS, most businesses can run just fine and I base it out of my own experience Probably, I would have offended folks from the IDS camp. I have a...
 
Tags: ids, ids camp, ids continues, ids company, ids software, vitamins, businesses, financial institutions, vmware sounds fancy
 
 
 
 
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Improve Security with "A Layer of Hurt"

2008-07-31 19:13:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...pain = new Malform fileData = pain.Fuzz(fileData endif In both code examples, Fuzz() mutates the incoming data. In the C++ case, the fuzzing code looks like this void Fuzz( Inout bytecap (*pcbBuf) char *pBuf Inout size t *pcbBuf if (!pcbBuf || !pBuf || !*pcbBuff || *pBuf) return if ((rand() % 100) > 5) return; // fuzz about 5% of Buffers...
 
Tags: layer, code layer, code, decent code coverage, fuzz, void fuzz, ifdef fuzz, code examples, perform fuzz
 
 
 
 
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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 d