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Amtrak to Start Passenger Screening

2008-02-22 12:17:58 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...randomly screening passengers , in an effort to close the security-theater gap between trains and airplanes It's kind of random: The teams will show up unannounced at stations and set up baggage screening areas in front of boarding gates. Officers will randomly pull people out of line and wipe their bags with a special swab that is then put...
 
Tags: correct step, officers, trains, machine, machine detects, randomly pull people, start randomly, amtrak, patrol platforms
 
 
 
 
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Banning function calls, assurance, and retrofitting

2008-03-18 19:48:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...randomly assign work to different people when it comes in, or randomly pull an item off a work queue for a customer service agent. None of these cases requires a cryptographically sound random number generator. For the most part, using rand() is a perfectly reasonable choice in this sort of situation When you decide that you want to ban...
 
Tags: code review experience, code, security sensitive context, context, security critical context, unsafe context, static analyzer, file defects, rand
 
 
 
 
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Quantitative Analysis = "Highly" Technical Analysis (?)

2007-02-07 09:34:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...randomly and just forms these patterns by chance. Technical analysis also utilize quantitative techniques via Technical Indicators . Technical Indicators aren't just numbers, they are results of some statistical modelling. Indicators like MACD and Bollinger Bands are actually similar to statistical measures used by quants today (mean and...
 
Tags: technical, technical analysis, quantitative analysis, quantitative, technical indicators, indicators, survey results, results, reversal models
 
 
 
 
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How effective is the wisdom of crowds as a security mechanism?

2007-12-21 15:26:10 by Tyler Moore in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...randomly many times, and then sprinkle in malicious votes protecting the attackers own phishing sites, for example. Since over half of the phishing sites in PhishTank are duplicate rock-phish domains, a savvy attacker could build reputation by voting for these sites without contributing to PhishTank otherwise So crowd-sourcing your security...
 
Tags: phishtank, phishtank compare, leaves phishtank, users, phishtanks users, vote maliciously, vote, active users, urls
 
 
 
 
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Supporting Complex Passwords

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2007-12-04 08:56:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
...randomly generated, strong passwords created by a tool. Or long pass phrases. But this is especially egregious since it encourages people to reduce the strength of the password that controls access to many different Microsoft properties I didn't have time to try to figure out exactly what this dialog is choking on, but when it chokes it...
 
Tags: passwords, complex passwords, complex, passwords hit, password temporarily, temporarily, password, strong passwords, password minder
 
 
 
 
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Our Blue Box Frappr map has grown to 315 member!

2007-11-30 10:17:43 by HASH0x896b698 in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
...randomly happened to look at it and found that Frappr's back to using Google Maps and that our map had grown to over 315 members! Very cool to see! If you haven't joined the map but are open to doing so, you can go to the map or click on the embedded map here NOTE: One of our listeners commented in the Blue Box Skype group chat that you do...
 
Tags: frappr, frappr map, map, blue box, blue box skype, maps, google maps, email address versus, north america
 
 
 
 
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Our Blue Box Frappr map has grown to 315 member!

2007-11-30 11:16:31 by Dan York in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
...randomly happened to look at it and found that Frappr's back to using Google Maps and that our map had grown to over 315 members! Very cool to see! If you haven't joined the map but are open to doing so, you can go to the map or click on the embedded map here NOTE: One of our listeners commented in the Blue Box Skype group chat that you do...
 
Tags: frappr, frappr map, map, blue box, blue box skype, maps, google maps, email address versus, north america
 
 
 
 
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205 University of Wisconsin employees exposed

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2008-01-21 14:44:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...randomly generated number, he said Evan] This is an excellent move by the University of Wisconsin, seriously It's not to say that we're not taking responsibility for this exposure, but this is a reminder that if people don't want something like this to ever happen again, then they should really change that number," he said, adding that DoIT...
 
Tags: information, personal information, information security vulnerabilities, social, include social security, security, identifiable information serves, information security personnel, computer shop
 
 
 
 
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Serving Malware Through Advertising Networks

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2008-02-18 10:58:53 by HASH0x8bfe2fc in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...randomly serving live exploir URLs and dropping malware
 
Tags: malware, php attempt, php, neosploit malware kit, xtraff, exploit, live exploit urls, urls, htm