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Border Gateway Protocol Might Be Exploited On Previously Presumed To Be Unavailable Scale

2008-08-27 16:18:48 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
...previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency. The tactic exploits the internet routing protocol BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) to let an attacker surreptitiously monitor unencrypted internet traffic anywhere in the
 
Tags: border gateway protocol, internet, internet traffic, attacker surreptitiously monitor, national security agency, scale previously, tactic exploits, unavailable, protocol bgp
 
 
 
 
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Zune Killer App - Windows Media Center

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2007-11-26 21:55:40 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...previously , I've been building up quite a library of TV Movies, cutting out commercials, compressing them and creating my own on-demand TV Movies library. Since I got my Zune, I've switched to using MP4 compression with H.264 video and AAC3 audio, which gets added automatically to my Zune library and can be synced to the device... better...
 
Tags: zune, apple tv, apple, tv, tv movies, zune software, zune tv comparison, media center, windows media center
 
 
 
 
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Review of My 2007 Security Predictions: Too Wimpy

2007-12-23 15:46:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...previously obscure term fell victim to malignant marketeers. 2007 will see more of the same, no doubt. But what about the real 0-day-wielding attackers, poking jokes at the above "oh-day defenders"? Security research into new types of vulnerabilities will certainly continue and more types of previously "safe" (rather, "erroneously thought of...
 
Tags: status check iii, status check, status check viii, security, security predictions, status check vii, check, predictions, status
 
 
 
 
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NSA Monitoring U.S. Government Internet Traffic

2008-02-04 06:30:10 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...previously monitored The classified joint directive, signed Jan. 8 and called the National Security Presidential Directive 54/Homeland Security Presidential Directive 23, has not been previously disclosed. Plans to expand the NSA's role in cyber-security were reported in the Baltimore Sun in September According to congressional aides and...
 
Tags: government, nsa, detect attacks, attacks, domestic government traffic, plan attacks, white house officials, white house, data
 
 
 
 
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Cashing in on employee theft, or honest whistleblower?

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2008-02-25 14:03:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...previously convicted offender was paid a sum of several millions for the information and was provided with a new identity this is a possibility that law firms were interposed as intermediaries. LGT will now re-register its report of a criminal offence committed by a person unknown directly against the convicted data thief approximately...
 
Tags: confidential, confidential data, kieber, named heinrich kieber, lgt, lgt trust, data, confidential information, information
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Big Brother Fi; Eugene (Ore.); Milpitas (Calif.); XP Net Monitor

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2008-04-24 13:54:32 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...previously expected. Their yearly costs for operation, most electricity, are estimated at $10,000 to $12,000 for the compact network Xirrus releases Windows XP version of monitoring widget: The free Yahoo widget shows current Wi-Fi area status in a kind of radar sweeping method, and provides a popup with full details about all nearby networks...
 
Tags: access, free wi-fi access, windows, xirrus releases windows, widget, free yahoo widget, public access, city hall, city
 
 
 
 
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Automated Spim on Microblogging Site Via MSN Messenger

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2008-08-07 21:12:09 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...previously had to rely on plugins for - the ability to send messages to their page via MSN Messenger updates http: //5834****** doesn't actually resolve anywhere - however, a quick Ping to that address and we have an IP Click to Enlarge Type the IP address into the browser, and via some geolocational technology, you'll see a region...
 
Tags: msn messenger, msn, message, msn messenger account, twitter-style message, account, msn account, twitter-style pages, pages
 
 
 
 
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An Option with a Negative Implied Volatility?

2006-08-14 06:27:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
Previously, we talked about cases when an option will have a negative value . This time, it was asked in Wilmott if there are real-life cases where options have negative implied vols Here's my take on the subject matter Since implied volatilities are derived values, based on observed market parameters and a model or formula, it is indeed...
 
Tags: negative, negative results, market, market parameters, volatility measure, model, subject matter, option, arbitrage opportunity
 
 
 
 
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Information flow tracing and software testing

2007-09-17 09:32:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...previously discussed on this blog, Srinath's Lemon uses a form of smart fuzzing. Lemon is aware of classes of web application threats and the input families which trigger them, but not all fuzz testing frameworks have to be this complicated. Fuzz testing originally relied on purely random data, ignorant of specific threats and known dangerous...
 
Tags: input, flayer marks, initial input samples, flayer, fuzz, fuzz testers require, checks, dynamic analysis framework, sanity checks