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Download: Windows Vista One Year Vulnerability Report

2008-01-23 16:19:00 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
 
...predecessor, Windows XP, along with other modern workstation operating systems Red Hat, Ubuntu and Apple products The results of the analysis show that Windows Vista has an improved security vulnerability profile over its predecessor. Analysis of security updates also shows that Microsoft improvements to the security update process and...
 
Tags: windows, windows vista, security vulnerability profile, security, windows administrators significantly, systems red hat, predecessor, development process, process
 
 
 
 
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Vulnerability Bazaar

2008-01-07 09:15:52 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
The commoditization of bugs is a long-standing tradition in the software industry. It started when companies began offering a cash incentive for each critical bug a developer squashed. This practice of attaching intrinsic monetary value to bugs is the spiritual predecessor of the "pure" vulnerability markets that this article discusses
 
Tags: vulnerability markets, bugs, software industry, critical bug, intrinsic monetary, spiritual predecessor, cash incentive, article discusses, pure
 
 
 
 
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Financial Ombudsman losing it?

2008-01-23 15:14:58 by Ross Anderson in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...predecessor the Banking Ombudsman, have for many years found against bank customers and in favour of the banks. In the early-to-mid 1990s, they upheld the banks outrageous claim that mag-stripe ATM cards were invulnerable to cloning; this led to the court cases described here and here . That position collapsed when ATM criminals started being...
 
Tags: ombudsman, financial ombudsman service, service, submission, submission minuss, customers, bank customers, independent hunt review, fipr submission
 
 
 
 
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IBM boosts performance, energy efficiency of new mainframe

2008-02-26 00:00:00 by Jon Brodkin in Network World on Security
 
IBMs next-generation mainframe unveiled Tuesday is 50% faster than its predecessor and can double performance for CPU-intensive jobs, while offering dramatic improvements in energy efficiency, according to Big Blue
 
Tags: energy efficiency, ibms next-generation mainframe, double performance, cpu-intensive jobs, dramatic improvements, tuesday, faster, predecessor, blue
 
 
 
 
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Fiber: Review of Optics, Cables & Connectors

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2008-04-05 03:22:59 by JJ in Security Uncorked
...predecessor to LC, and are similar in shape, but quite a bit larger. We suggest using the mnemonic Square Connector to remember SC Last- and possibly least- we have ST , which really means Straight Tip, but many folks have a better time thinking of Stab and Twist. You stick it in and lock it in place by turning the outer barrel, sort of like...
 
Tags: cables, simplex fiber cables, fiber, connectors, fiber cables, short fiber runs, short, single-mode, single-mode fiber
 
 
 
 
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How Do I Get ISO27001 Certification?

2008-05-20 17:31:23 by Posted By: Carsten Casper, Research Director in IT Leaders - Security and Risk Management
 
...predecessor, BS7799-2). Now, more and more people wonder: How do I get a certificate for my organization? While in some countries (such as the U.K. and Germany), it's more common to get a certificate, in the U.S. it's not. Well, there are two ways to approach this: Find an accredited auditor (person), or find an accredited certification body...
 
Tags: certification body, body, register, international register, body schedules, list, international standard iso, tv companies, iso
 
 
 
 
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Internet Protocol Version 6

2008-05-22 14:32:02 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
With the explosion of the World Wide Web and email the 32-bit addresses Internet Protocol version 4 used would run out in the not-so-distant future. In 1994, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) established a working group to define the successor to IPv4, IPv6. In March 2008 the US government issued a memorandum requiring that by June 2008...
 
Tags: distinguish ipv6, ipv6, world wide web, technical features, task force, government, internet, ipv4, not-so-distant future
 
 
 
 
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Dumb Luck IS a Strategy!

2008-09-18 09:38:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...predecessor's" intrusion traces while you break through systems, "plant flags", change screen backgrounds [for the admins to notice that you've been there...], etc Let's think what this situation really means? Here are the choices I see Nobody discovered the hole - a law of large numbers (aka "dumb luck") have "shielded" the company from an...
 
Tags: dumb luck, dumb luck strategy, security, security countermeasures, security professional, security program, risk, obvious huge risk, password
 
 
 
 
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McCain Campaign Rejects Jihadist's Web Endorsement

2008-10-22 18:24:00 by Sarah Lai Stirland in Wired Security
 
A jihadist on Monday posted a commentary on an Islamic extremist forum suggesting that al-Qaida should launch a terror attack against the United States before the election to help John McCain, who would continue the "failing march of his predecessor." The campaign argues that the jihadist was being insincere, and wants to keep McCain and running...
 
Tags: mccain, jihadist, islamic extremist forum, john mccain, terror attack, campaign argues, white house, sarah palin, insincere
 
 
 
 
 
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