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Supporting your family, friends, and neighbors

2008-02-13 17:45:40 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...pros during my years speaking at conferences around the world. And if theres one thing thats true for all of us its that all IT pros become support professionals for their family, their friends, and their neighborsyour FFN base, as I call it. And, like doctors, were expected to provide this kind of support for free Once upon a less-demanding...
 
Tags: suspicious e-mail message, mail, home computers defense, home computers, e-mail, home, web mail, windows live mail, site
 
 
 
 
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How to Do Database Logging/Monitoring "Right"?

2007-12-13 11:26:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Pros (esp key ones) associated with them; choose sniffing if you care for the Pros and are NOT undermined by their Cons (e.g. lack of support for encrypted traffic Comments? Additions? Concerns Nobody really knows what it will be in each particular situation: 0-40% were observed under various conditions by various people Technorati tags: log...
 
Tags: database, analyze database logs, database logs, database log review, database performance impact, database configuration, performance impact, database log management, log management
 
 
 
 
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More on Hating Agents

2008-02-13 14:54:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...pros and cons agents are unavoidable in some cases (nowadays such cases are few and far between deployed agent can secure the log data in transit from its source to a log management tool agent typically can bandwidth-throttle / -manage the log data from source to a log management tool agents use up CPU/RAM on each system (sometimes A LOT,...
 
Tags: log management tool, log management, log management system, agents, remote, management, remote agent, agent, agents evil
 
 
 
 
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Terror on the Internet - Conflict of Interest

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2008-03-18 19:58:23 by HASH0x8471fd8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...pros and cons of monitoring cyber jihadist sites next to shutting them down, as well as mentioning my analysis of the Mujahideen Secrets encryption tool v1.0 and v2.0. Terror on the Internet: A Complex Issue, and Getting Harder Indeed, politicians around the world call at regular intervals for terrorist websites to be removed from their host...
 
Tags: cyber jihadist, cyber jihadist communities, novice cyber jihadists, jihadists, cyber jihadist forums, cyber jihadist sites, attract cyber jihadists, internet, cyber jihadists
 
 
 
 
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Hackers Invade Mars

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2008-06-03 11:50:49 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
...pros had to take down the University of Arizona-hosted site after hackers replaced the lead blog entry with graffiti that read hacked by VITAL. As if that wasnt enough, members of the self-declared sql loverz crew redirected baffled visitors of the Phoenix missions official webpage and a companion site to a third-party destination. That page...
 
Tags: hackers, security pros, security pros responsible, script kiddies, sites, high-profile sites, lead blog entry, sql loverz crew, companion site
 
 
 
 
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Do we need a farm system in the security industry?

2008-07-21 16:17:30 by HASH0x8b5e478 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...pros in the workplace? Do we need to change the certification process? Should companies have a different profile of who they hire for security positions. Do we need to develop some sort of farm system where security pros can cut their teeth and learn their craft, like the guilds and apprentices of yesteryear? The construction industry used to...
 
Tags: security, security administrators, security staffers fail, security positions, security people, security pros, lisa hits, people, lisa
 
 
 
 
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Producer Seeking Secondary Ticket Market Hacker

2007-12-06 17:00:35 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...pros and cons of the free market system because I think that would be horribly boring. Rather Im interested in exploring how programmers and software developers have figured out ways to take advantage of the arbitrage opportunities that the primary market system offers. The two most recent examples are a Hannah Montana concert that the...
 
Tags: secondary ticket market, world series tickets, tickets, forward, hannah montana concert, move forward, colorado rockies website, secondary ticket markets, talk
 
 
 
 
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Hats off to Mr. Mark Cox and Team

2007-10-11 09:21:30 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
 
...pros and cons of their software and support model and I will keep writing about both, especially where I think common perception might be a bit askew. Because of their leadership position among Linux distros, I think Red Hat makes a good comparison point for data analysis against the common security perceptions for Linux and Windows
 
Tags: linux, linux vendor, mark cox, linux distros, common security perceptions, red hat, leadership position, utmost respect, hard job
 
 
 
 
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Q&A: Data leak prevention pros and cons

2008-01-07 00:00:00 by Cara Garretson in Network World on Security
 
Anti-data leakage vendors make bold claims about how far their products can go to protect enterprises from unauthorized information sharing. This irks Nick Selby, head of enterprise security research at The 451 Group, who believes these tools are helpful with some tasks, but far from the solution
 
Tags: enterprise security research, anti-data leakage vendors, irks nick selby, protect enterprises, bold claims, tasks, head, tools, information