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How to Sell Security

2008-05-26 05:57:29 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Prospect Theory, the underlying theory behind the newly popular field of behavioral economics. Prospect Theory was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979 (Kahneman went on to win a Nobel Prize for this and other similar work) to explain how people make trade-offs that involve risk. Before this work, economists had a model of...
 
Tags: security, loss, risky loss, risky larger loss, gain, risky larger gain, security purchase, directly, security directly
 
 
 
 
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Afilias and GoDaddy Want to Rule .US

2007-07-31 14:19:04 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...prospect. .US has badly underperformed, largely (I think) due to a lack of marketing and clout behind it. The alliance is called the DNAR (Domain Name Alliance Registry This would certainly change with GoDaddy, which is a massive hosting service with an interest in pushing customers to buy .US domains. The press release implies that they...
 
Tags: alliance registry, registry, alliance registry proposes, godaddy, registry contract, registry fee, alliance, domain registry, love kids
 
 
 
 
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A cryptographic hash function reading guide

2007-11-23 16:01:18 by George Danezis in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...prospect of not having to design another significant block cipher for the next few years The rest of us should expect the next four years to be filled with news, first about advances in the design, then advances in the attacks against Hash functions, as teams with candidate hash algorithms will bitterly try to find flaws in each others...
 
Tags: function, hash functions, cryptographic hash functions, functions, functions secure, design, hash function design, compression functions, secure hash function
 
 
 
 
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Hacking Power Networks

2008-01-22 14:24:55 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...prospect of cyberattacks crippling multicity regions appears to have prompted the government to make this information public. The issue "went from 'we should be concerned about to this' to 'this is something we should fix now,' " said Paller. "That's why, I think, the government decided to disclose this More rumor : An attendee of the meeting...
 
Tags: power, power companies, companies, cia actively, power outages, cia, cia rumor, disrupt power equipment, attacks
 
 
 
 
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Reward: $68 million for ratting out your employer

2008-02-20 16:57:43 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
 
...prospect of potentially colossal lawsuits initiated by whistleblowers, but also a likely increase in costs for investigations, legal fees, online monitoring, and other efforts to combat both legitimate and frivolous claims On the positive side, employees, customers, and partners who are willing to call attention to problems can be a...
 
Tags: million, online whistleblower site, site, million merck, mirror sites continue, employees, online, sites, international employees
 
 
 
 
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Mets get Santana, Yankees and Red Sox thrilled

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2008-02-03 09:00:21 by HASH0x8bc0100 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...prospects, including 3 pitchers and 137.5 million over six years. What did they get for all that? Maybe the best pitcher in baseball today. A sturdy 2 time Cy Young award winner, Santana will anchor the Mets rotation for years to come. The Mets beat out the Yankees and the Red Sox to win the prize Here is the funny thing though. I think both...
 
Tags: sox, red sox, mets, yankees, santana, mets dearly, mets rotation, sox players, johan santana sweepstakes
 
 
 
 
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The National Cyber Exercise

2008-02-06 13:29:21 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...prospective Federal, State, local, and international government participants, individual companies are but a miniscule component. Given the importance of financial services, energy, and other private sectors, this prospect gives me pause. We've heard anecdotes from clients that FBI Infragard and other public-private security contact points...
 
Tags: cyber, national cyber exercise, exercise, exercise objective, security, exercise results, international, international government participants, security contact
 
 
 
 
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Healthcare organizations feeling cyberattacks growing

2008-02-27 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Healthcare organizations feel under increasing attack from the Internet, while security incidents involving insiders and disappearing laptops with sensitive data are piling up. On top of that, there's now the prospect of a surprise audit from the federal government agency in charge of overseeing the HIPAA security and privacy rules
 
Tags: healthcare organizations, federal government agency, sensitive data, security incidents, privacy rules, surprise audit, hipaa security, prospect, laptops
 
 
 
 
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The National Cyber Exercise

2008-02-06 13:29:21 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...prospective Federal, State, local, and international government participants, individual companies are but a miniscule component. Given the importance of financial services, energy, and other private sectors, this prospect gives me pause. We've heard anecdotes from clients that FBI Infragard and other public-private security contact points...
 
Tags: cyber, national cyber exercise, exercise, exercise objective, security, exercise results, international, international government participants, security contact
 
 
 
 
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SNMP - Its not Secure Network Management Protocol

2008-03-04 08:12:43 by HASH0x8b500e0 in StillSecure, After All These Years