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Powerful new antiphishing weapon emerges

2008-02-11 00:00:00 by Carolyn Duffy Marsan in Network World on Security
 
...powerful companies -- including Yahoo, Google, PayPal and AOL-- are brandishing a new weapon in the ongoing battle against e-mail fraud. It is called DKIM, an emerging e-mail authentication standard developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force, and it allows an organization to cryptographically sign outgoing e-mail to verify that it sent...
 
Tags: e-mail authentication standard, e-mail, network security, e-mail fraud, task force, organization, weapon, free paper, powerful companies
 
 
 
 
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Facebook is a powerful tool the label should say use safety goggles

2007-12-26 15:35:12 by Scott in Scott Wright's Security Views
 
I think we all agree that powerful tools must be handled with care. A nail gun is an invaluable tool for building houses, but would you let your kids, or even your office staff play with them? Definitely not, unless they have a reason to use nailguns (other than for fun), can demonstrate that they know
 
Tags: office staff play, nail gun, powerful tools, invaluable tool, nailguns, reason, kids, houses, fun
 
 
 
 
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Malicious Facebook Application Might Create A Powerful DoS Botnet

2008-09-06 03:26:08 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Researchers at the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) have built a malicious Facebook application as an experiment to demonstrate the possible dangers of social networking applications. The proof-of-concept Facebook application can covertly herd users of the popular social network into a powerful botnet that might be malicious. The demo...
 
Tags: malicious facebook application, facebook application, malicious, social, popular social network, covertly herd users, powerful botnet, computer science, demo application
 
 
 
 
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In Next-Gen Bullets and Bombs, Even the Casing Explodes

2008-05-07 01:00:00 by David Hambling in Wired Security
 
...powerful bombs, warheads that tear apart stone and concrete, mines that can be set to stun or kill, and grenades that can swat rockets or mortar rounds out of the sky like flies You can get effects that are more precisely tailored to a particular target," says John Pike, director of Washington military research group GlobalSecurity.org . "And...
 
Tags: amounts, release explosive amounts, release, metal, hollow metal cone, explosive, energy, reliably release energy, metal liner
 
 
 
 
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Managed Fast Flux Provider - Part Two

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2008-10-02 12:39:01 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...powerful mirrored web hosting management, uses multiple Virtual servers to host website with 100% uptime. Mirrored hosting is a combination of two things, which are 1. Specially Designed Virtual Servers 2. Powerful Automated Control Panel How does it work Mirrored hosting uses specially configured Virtual Servers making them link with the...
 
Tags: fast, fast flux provider, fast flux networks, recent fast-flux service, powerful control panel, control panel, virtual servers, multiple virtual servers, fast flux spam
 
 
 
 
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Your Brain on Fear

2008-01-09 06:10:54 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...powerful than the brain's reasoning faculties. The amygdala sprouts a profusion of connections to higher brain regions -- neurons that carry one-way traffic from amygdala to neocortex. Few connections run from the cortex to the amygdala, however. That allows the amygdala to override the products of the logical, thoughtful cortex, but not vice...
 
Tags: fear, brain, amygdala, amygdala hobbles, fear circuitry, amygdala sprouts, brain regions, overrule reason, cortex
 
 
 
 
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Plan now to eliminate "power users" from your domains

2008-02-11 18:03:17 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...powerful is it, really, and why did we remove the group from Windows Vista That group had rights install software and drivers. And if you can install software and drivers, then you can elevate yourself to Administrator or SYSTEM. Vista includes a signed installer that allows standard users to install packages signed by a trusted root. (The...
 
Tags: power, power users, powerful, too-powerful power users, rights install software, software, install, install packages, install software
 
 
 
 
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Designing Processors to Support Hacking

2008-04-24 13:52:33 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...powerful, general purpose attacks, while remaining surprisingly low in the amount of additional hardware. We show two such hardware designs, and implement them in a real system. Further, we show three powerful attacks using this hardware, including a login backdoor that gives an attacker complete and highlevel access to the machine. This...
 
Tags: additional, additional hardware, hardware, exible hardware, design hardware, design, counterfeit computer hardware, attacks, support attacks
 
 
 
 
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Security Evolution

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2008-05-19 17:42:16 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
...powerful but baroque (SOA), and finally, the user side got some love with Web 2.0 technologies. That's a heck of a lot of engineering and innovation by the software development community for plus or minus 8 years Now lets' check in with the developer's brethren over in information security. Well, once the web came along the information...
 
Tags: security, information security, faith based security, security issues asp, asp, security issues, security architecture, ws-security, security architectures
 
 
 
 
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Designing a Malicious Processor

2008-10-16 12:39:15 by schneier in Schneier on Security