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Your Turn At The Bar Again? Security Costs in a Pay Per Drink Cloud

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2008-05-01 20:55:26 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
...Quarterly close, the jobs are getting killed before they finish Simon : Hi Simon, I understand but we cant just disable all the security Oscar : Well, we need to do something if we are going to finish posting our numbers this quarter. Are you volunteering to explain to our CEO why we didnt Simon : Hmm. Let me check the agent logs, perhaps...
 
Tags: security costs, costs, runtime security costs, security runtime costs, security, security tool, security tool inefficiency, security tools plays, plays
 
 
 
 
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138 Million Domains

2007-08-29 21:28:19 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...quarter, is probably due, in large part, to an aggressive price promotion by the domain's registry, just RMB1.00 (about $0.13) for the first year. At the end of the 2nd quarter there were more than 73 million .com and .net domains, the overwhelming majority .com. 11% of the growth comes from the "domain name monetization" segment, which is to...
 
Tags: domains, million domains, net domains, million, domain registrations, domain, growth, huge growth, verisign domains
 
 
 
 
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138 Million Domains

2007-08-29 21:28:19 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...quarter, is probably due, in large part, to an aggressive price promotion by the domain's registry, just RMB1.00 (about $0.13) for the first year. At the end of the 2nd quarter there were more than 73 million .com and .net domains, the overwhelming majority .com. 11% of the growth comes from the "domain name monetization" segment, which is to...
 
Tags: domains, million domains, net domains, million, domain registrations, domain, growth, huge growth, verisign domains
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Weekend-Fi in NYC, Oakland County Halts, Helio Sold to Virgin

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2008-06-27 10:33:34 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...quarter over quarter. Dial-up is still their cash cow. Helio lost hundreds of millions to obtain just 170,000 subscribers (that number down from 200,000 at the start of 2008). EarthLink will receive a pittance for its investment, part of the $39 million in stock that Virgin will pay for Helio; SK Telecom will invest in Virgin Mobile to obtain...
 
Tags: helio, wi-fi approach, wi-fi, virgin, municipal wi-fi division, helio lost hundreds, dollars, oakland county, mvno
 
 
 
 
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Compromised Cpanel Accounts For Sale

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2008-08-18 10:42:50 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...quarter of 2007, embedded malware tactic on the verge of irrelevance, and if so, what has contributed to its decline? Have SQL injections executed through botnets turned into the most efficient way to infect hundreds of thousands of legitimate web sites? Depends on who you're dealing with A cyber criminal's position in the "underground food...
 
Tags: sql, sql injections, sql injection attacks, massive sql injection, profile site, site, site sql, sql injection, tactic
 
 
 
 
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PCI Bans WEP SecurityStarting 2010

2008-10-06 09:38:19 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...quarter of the 4,748 retail access points it surveyed across the US had no security whatsoever, while another quarter only used WEP, one of the weakest protocols for wireless data encryption. Just under half (49 percent) of the surveyed hotspots used WiFi Protected Access (WPA) or WPA 2much stronger encryption protocols than WEP If youre...
 
Tags: wep, insecure wireless technologies, wireless data encryption, access, retail access, consumer data theft, secureworks webcast, quarter, security whatsoever
 
 
 
 
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MDAC ActiveX Code Execution Exploit Still in the Wild

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2007-12-05 12:08:56 by HASH0x89e6630 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...quarter of 2007 showcased the malware authors simplistic assumption that outdated but unpatched vulnerabilities can be just as effective as zero day ones, and when the assumption proved to be true -- take Storm Worm's use of outdated vulnerabilities as the best and most effective example -- it automatically lowered the entry barriers into the...
 
Tags: exploit, day, day vulnerabilities, htm, malware, malware exploitation kit, single exploit urls, vulnerabilities, storm worm apparently
 
 
 
 
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Two-thirds of Oracle DBAs don't apply security patches

2008-01-14 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b41100 in Network World on Security
 
Oracle issues dozens of security patches every quarter, but that doesn't mean database administrators are necessarily implementing them
 
Tags: security patches, oracle issues dozens, database administrators, necessarily, quarter
 
 
 
 
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RBN's Fake Account Suspended Notices

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2008-01-15 19:07:34 by HASH0x8b4a7ec in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...quarter of 2007, under the public pressure put on the Russian Business Network's malicious practices, the RBN started faking the removal of malicious domains from its network by placing fake account suspended notices, but continuing the malware and exploit serving campaigns on them. And since I constantly monitor RBN activity, in particular...
 
Tags: media malware gang, malware gang, malware, rbn, exe, russian business network, actual operational department, fake account, network