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Quickly Identifying And Solving Software Bugs

2008-05-14 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b8b874 in Network World on Security
 
Nearly every IT project manager, designer, DBA and developer wants to build the perfect software application: the seamless union of hardware and software, intuitive and robust, with eye-popping performance and rock-solid logic. While this pinnacle is difficult to reach, and flaws will be found-there are steps you can take to resolve them more...
 
Tags: software, perfect software application, seamless union, project manager, rock-solid logic, quickly, steps, reach, resolve
 
 
 
 
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Contributing To Open Source Software Security

2008-05-05 11:38:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...quickly, and their fixes distributed quickly While distilling anything down to three steps makes it seem easy, this isn't necessarily the case. Given how important open source software is to Google, we've attempted to contribute to this bottom line. As Chris said before , our engineers are encouraged to contribute both software and time to...
 
Tags: security, source software, software, additional security contributions, background, operational security background, security professionals, security vulnerability mediation, manual security analysis
 
 
 
 
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Security ROI

2008-09-02 06:05:53 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...quickly. The characteristics of the things we're trying to prevent change so quickly that we can't accumulate data fast enough. By the time we get some data, there's a new threat model for which we don't have enough data. So we can't create ALE models But there's another problem, and it's that the math quickly falls apart when it comes to...
 
Tags: security, security countermeasures, countermeasures, incident, security incident, individual security countermeasures, security measure cuts, security measure reduces, security vendors
 
 
 
 
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You Need An Address to Call 911

2007-08-23 09:23:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...quickly and efficiently pin point a location. I know our rescue services study and memorize their coverage area in order to respond as quickly as possible If the 911 operator doesnt know where the rail road tracks 150 yards south of the Holiday Inn on exit 11 off of I-85 is, I know the police, fire, or EMS workers will
 
Tags: tracks, train tracks, railroad tracks, rail road tracks, hotel, address, road, expensive car, imperfect information
 
 
 
 
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Long Island University notifies students of mailing error

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2008-02-12 09:53:50 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...quickly as possible Evan] In this day and age, this is a prudent decision to notify students quickly. LIU deserves credit Long Island University deeply regrets that personal information may have been inadvertently exposed to potential identity theft," Long Island University President David Steinberg said Evan] The leader of the school...
 
Tags: island university, university, post, post office personnel, students, post office, personal data, data, social security
 
 
 
 
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"Crawling" Toward SDL

2008-03-06 22:13:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...quickly moving toward our larger goals and then supplement them with other activities that may require longer preparation or planning. As I help non-Microsoft companies implement SDL into their development lifecycles, this "crawl" phase toward full adoption of SDL is very important. Usually some person in an organization picks up on the...
 
Tags: sdl, security, perform security analysis, application security, application, applications security, security issues, issues, non-microsoft sdl engagements
 
 
 
 
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5 Lessons on Public Disclosure From Elliot Spitzer

2008-03-12 17:26:54 by Bill in Grumpy Security Guy
 
...quickly understood that the cards where stacked against him and decided denials and platitudes where not going to work for him. Perhaps as a former prosecutor he knew how strong the case was against him. If you are dealing with an incident it is important to understand that excuses for poor security are not helpful right now and dealing with...
 
Tags: public disclosure, disclosure, response, pretty quick response, cross site, fight cross site, time, law enforcement, incident response team
 
 
 
 
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My kids get XO's, I go to the command line

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2008-03-23 01:30:39 by HASH0x8aed260 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...quickly. The wireless networking is great. In addition to regular wireless access points, the computers network in a "mesh" network that allow them to share information and chat with each other with the pre-installed software. My kids discovered chat pretty quickly and now sit next to each other chatting away over the computer. Why they just...
 
Tags: webkinz world, world, files, grep files, webkinz, flash files, webkinz site, store files, chat pretty quickly
 
 
 
 
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Some Comments on PayPal's Security Vulnerability Disclosure Policy

2007-11-27 18:07:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...quickly we can resolve an issue We do expect to get back to researchers quickly with confirmation of a reported issue and tracking data on how we're doing resolving it. Let me now address a few concerns/comments people have specifically raised Chris Shiflett said Since data can be anything, how do we know if we view data without...
 
Tags: disclosure, encourage responsible disclosure, responsible disclosure, security, security vulnerability disclosure, policy, security vulnerability, disclosure policies, disclosure statement
 
 
 
 
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Can I get your Username and Password ?

2008-03-24 17:25:00 by Random InfoSec Guy in Security Coin<