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We're so big and other marketing games

2008-06-27 10:41:01 by HASH0x8b0794c in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
Andy Jaquith had a good post up that I first heard about from Mike Rothman's blog . Andy, fresh off of attending the Symantec Vision conference laments the obligatory "we're so big" slides that find themselves into almost every deck you see. Whether it is for analysts as Andy says or for customers or partners, from the biggest to the smallest,...
 
Tags: vendor revenue reports, vendor, revenue, people, machines andor people, analysts base, obligatory circular diagrams, andy jaquith, analysts
 
 
 
 
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The reason behind the "We're sorry..." message

2007-07-09 11:54:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
Posted by Niels Provos, Anti-Malware Team Some of you might have seen this message while searching on Google, and wondered what the reason behind it might be. Instead of search results, Google displays the "We're sorry" message when we detect anomalous queries from your network. As a regular user, it is possible to answer a CAPTCHA - a reverse...
 
Tags: web servers, vulnerable web servers, message, google, worms, google displays, worms pdf, queries, detect anomalous queries
 
 
 
 
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Software and Security Separateness - You're Doing It Wrong

The Article has images
2008-05-30 08:55:19 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
Many years ago, I was a trout bum, and the guy who captured that wonderful experience better than anyone was John Gierach , I was lucky enough to live a few miles up the Frying Pan river from where he stayed when he was fishing up there. In one of his stories he recounted the following New enthusiastic flyfisherman: "When you get your cast...
 
Tags: software, software-, software security, software security architectures, security, architectures, security properties, centers, strong centers
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft re-issues July WSUS patch

2008-08-13 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Microsoft has re-issued a July fix for a bug that had stopped some network administrators from using the company's main business patch management tool to push out security updates
 
Tags: july fix, network administrators, microsoft, push, security, company, bug
 
 
 
 
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Chinese Say They're Building 'Impossible' Space Drive

2008-09-24 14:29:00 by David Hambling in Wired Security
 
Chinese researchers claim they've confirmed the theory behind an "impossible" space drive, and are proceeding to build a demonstration version. If they're right, it could open up new possibilities for space exploration and give the Chinese a decisive military advantage in space
 
Tags: space, space drive, chinese, chinese researchers claim, space exploration, decisive military advantage, demonstration version, impossible, possibilities
 
 
 
 
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Innovators, Imitators and Idiots

2008-10-07 08:32:33 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
Charlie Rose interviews Warren Buffett Charlie Rose And so when you look at where we are going, there seems to be two issues that are apparent to me at least, risk and leverage. We just lost sight of risk and leverage of what was appropriate Warren Buffett Yeah. Again, because it pays off for a while. You know, you can lose leverage, and it's...
 
Tags: risk, oeprational risk, risk events, risk-reward balance, wise people, people, buffett raises, buffett, blind risk acceptance
 
 
 
 
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The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-07 05:48:53 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Most counterterrorism policies fail, not because of tactical problems, but because of a fundamental misunderstanding of what motivates terrorists in the first place. If we're ever going to defeat terrorism, we need to understand what drives people to become terrorists in the first place Conventional wisdom holds that terrorism is inherently...
 
Tags: ineffective, highly ineffective terrorists, terrorists, people join, people join hamas, people join al-qaida, terrorist organizations, organizations, al-qaida
 
 
 
 
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Do-Not-Call Lists

2008-10-07 15:51:16 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Turns out you can add anyone's number -- or remove anyone's number -- to/from the Canadian do-not-call list. You can also add (but not remove) numbers to the U.S. do-not-call list , though only up to three at a time, and you have to provide a valid e-mail address to confirm the addition Here's my idea. If you're a company, add every one of your...
 
Tags: canadian do-not-call list, list, do-not-call list, valid e-mail address, remove, cold call, time, tofrom, competitors
 
 
 
 
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Data breach target: You

2008-10-06 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b6373c in Network World on Security
 
Heard about a competitor's security being breached? Then you're probably next. In fact, you may already be owned
 
Tags: competitor, owned, security
 
 
 
 
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Notes from IEEE Web 2.0 Security and Privacy Workshop (W2SP2008)

2008-05-27 22:45:00 by Security Ret