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The Antivirus Industry in 2008

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2008-07-04 11:38:43 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...realistic retrospective of the antivirus industry for the past 10 years, summarized in a single cartoon. Congrats, keeping it realistic means taking the issues seriously, compared to living in a self-serving twisted reality on their own. There's no such thing as cat and mouse game anymore, since the mouse has gotten bigger than the cat
 
Tags: mouse game anymore, antivirus industry, mouse, realistic, ikarus security software, realistic retrospective, single cartoon, truth serum, cat
 
 
 
 
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Summarizing July's Threatscape

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2008-08-01 16:08:24 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...realistic cartoon aiming to stimulate innovation by emphasizing on how prolific and sophisticated malware groups have become, it would have been a biased cartoon. However, this one is courtesy of a security vendor, and it's pretty objective 05. Lithuania Attacked by Russian Hacktivists, 300 Sites Defaced This attack is a good example of a...
 
Tags: malware, profitable malware operations, malware authors, malware tools, malware coder, malware kit, malware infection, neosploit malware kit, spam
 
 
 
 
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Misconceptions about outsourcing security

2007-12-13 14:05:54 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...realistic expectations of the relationship. It is important to do the due diligence and ensure appropriate provisions are part of the contract, but it is much more important to trust your provider and work on the relationship. Think of it as a marriage you have work on it and have to be patient
 
Tags: security processes, establish security processes, security, processes, security controls, security managers cost, cost, security operations, security services
 
 
 
 
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My QA = TA Post Sparked a Debate

2007-02-16 09:20:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
I knew this was coming. Posting a link to my previous blog entry in a quants forum sparked a heated debate. See what very intelligent people has to say about the merits of quantitative analysis and technical analysis. Some even pointed out that TA has more realistic models than QA Link to the QA vs. TA thread Tags: quant technical analysis...
 
Tags: previous blog entry, link, quantitative analysis, realistic models, quants forum, technical analysis, intelligent people, tags, thread
 
 
 
 
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Article: Analytics Brief: Securing The New Data Center

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2008-01-07 05:28:32 by Editor in Security Links
...realistic goal, but flaws will still exist, and exploits will be created. All the major players report that building a secure hypervisor is a top priority. VMwares CTO, Mendel Rosenblum, goes so far as to boast that no security holes will show up in VMwares ESX product because of design flawsof course, that leaves open the possibility of...
 
Tags: virtual environment, environment, virtual appliances range, virtual appliances, security, tools, security tools, develop security, security holes
 
 
 
 
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Cached Malware Embedded Sites

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2007-12-16 18:18:26 by HASH0x8a09e44 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...realistic attack tactic than the one discussed in the article, where an attacker will supposedely embedd malware at different sites, let the search engines crawl and cache it, than remove the sites and wait for the visitors to use the cache, thereby infecting themselves. Case in point - the U.S Consulate's site for instance wasn't even...
 
Tags: sites, sites wrongly, web sites, malware, malicious site, site, single site offers, sites notification services, popular sites
 
 
 
 
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Patrick Smith on Aviation Security

2008-01-11 13:47:35 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...realistic to expect street protests or airport sit-ins from citizen fliers, and maybe we shouldn't expect too much from a press and media that have had no trouble letting countless other injustices slip to the wayside. And rather than rethink our policies, the best we've come up with is a way to skirt them -- for a fee, naturally -- via...
 
Tags: security, actual security, security zealots, security experts, security spectacle, expect street protests, airport security, expect, american public
 
 
 
 
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Baking security into a switch

2008-01-14 00:00:00 by Jim Metzler in Network World on Security
 
I read a little about Cisco's TrustSec architecture, and I'm wondering if it's something we should take a look at. It seems like getting more security built into a switch is a good idea, but I can't tell how realistic that idea is yet
 
Tags: switch, idea, security, trustsec architecture, cisco, realistic
 
 
 
 
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E-crime and Socioeconomic Factors

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2008-01-21 07:49:29 by HASH0x8b5217c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...realistic. Modern malware is open source, modular, localized to different languages, comes with extensive documentation/comments and HOWTO guides/videos. Moreover, these publicly obtainable open source malware bots were released in the wild for free, namely, the coders that originally started the "generators" or the "compilers" generation...
 
Tags: malware, code malware, modern malware, malware generators, source tool, source, malware bot, source malware bots, e-crime
 
 
 
 
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Who should do your security audits? Or, how do you organize the security department?