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Safe Keeping: Article on TrueCrypt in Information Security

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2008-12-01 14:59:00 by Russ McRee in HolisticInfoSec.org
...rely on a proprietary, central service I humbly suggest that you consider using both should you lack commercial solutions Cheers del.icio.us | digg | Submit to Slashdot
 
Tags: article, truecrypt, lack commercial solutions, information security magazine, central service, safe, source system, laptop, adeona
 
 
 
 
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Third Parties Controlling Information

2008-02-27 05:46:46 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...rely on -- either created by us or by others -- is out of our control. It's out there on the internet, on someone else's website and being cared for by someone else. We use those websites, sometimes daily, and don't even think about their reliability Bits and pieces of the web disappear all the time. It's called "link rot," and we're all used...
 
Tags: regularly disappear, regularly, disappear, position papers disappear, web bulletin board, web, information, entire websites disappear, internet
 
 
 
 
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Cloud Stacks: Please Mind The Gap

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2008-04-24 20:54:37 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
...rely on other Cloud providers further down the stack. In fact, at any level in the Cloud Stack, it could be multiple players providing the service *they* rely on; e.g. Cloud Storage, Cloud Compute, Cloud Security These providers in turn depend upon other service providers at the next layer down in the Cloud and so on See where Im going with...
 
Tags: cloud, service, cloud service providers, cloud storage, cloud providers, cloud security alter, cloud security, cloud compute, end-user service
 
 
 
 
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The Good Get Conned-When Trust is Biological

2008-12-01 14:00:35 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...relying on you and may be vulnerableinteresting stuff THOMAS is a powerful brain circuit that releases the neurochemical oxytocin when we are trusted and induces a desire to reciprocate the trust we have been showneven with strangers. The key to a con is not that you trust the conman, but that he shows he trusts you . Conmen ply their trade...
 
Tags: trust, trust people, online cons rely, rely, scams, easily scam people, nigerian bank scam, powerful brain circuit, impersonal event
 
 
 
 
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Fierce 1.0

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2007-12-20 16:39:32 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
...rely on it. So what was fixed? Well, thanks to Jabra we have now patched fierce so that when it does a zone transfer it continues working, in the off chance that someone messes with the zone transfer to fool fierce into stopping before it sees the real output. Alas, it was a small but important issue to fix So! Much much more work to be done....
 
Tags: fierce, fool fierce, production kinks, zone transfer, backtrack, production, dictionary, corp, kinks
 
 
 
 
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Sitting on your hands is not an option - FUD, Compliance, what will it take to sell security?

2008-03-13 00:17:43 by HASH0x84729f8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...rely on a security breach happening at the moment a customer is contemplating a security purchase to drive the sale through What does drive the security sale? Over my years in security I have seen the answer change from FUD to compliance. There was a time when to sell security you would ask your customer, what would happen to your business...
 
Tags: security breach, security breach scare, security, security breach cost, security purchase, security industry, provide security, industry, real live security
 
 
 
 
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Get Involved Now In Cloud Computing Discussions

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2008-07-24 10:55:19 by Stephanie Balaouras in Security & Risk Management
...rely on the service. This is actually the second major outage for Amazon S3 this year. As a result of these and other reported outages, some companies will come to question whether they should pursue these new cloud-based services in the future. I agree with Nick Carr , whether youre a startup looking to rely on the cloud almost exclusively...
 
Tags: service, online backup service, online, potential service provider, service provider, online storage offerings, online records management, online backup, potential service outages
 
 
 
 
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Sorry CharlieCard, Your Security Model Is Broken

2008-08-09 14:57:40 by Chris Wysopal in Zero in a bit
 
...rely on obscurity for the security of some of their products, but now decided against this outdated design approach and instead bases the security of newer RFID cards on publicly scrutinized cryptography and independent evaluations Q: Can you explain Kerckhoffs Principle and why it applies to your work A: Kerchoff, who lived in the 19th...
 
Tags: security, security researchers, valid security approach, system, encryption system, boston subway system, discuss security issues, court system, security systems
 
 
 
 
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KimsCrafts e-commerce breach affects 4,500

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2007-12-14 16:08:39 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...rely on unqualified people to secure their operations, i.e. outsourced IT staff? Do they just not think of security until something happens? Do they not have the necessary resources (money and/or personnel)? Maybe its a combination of factors, but I wonder which are prevalent Additional tips (for what they are worth), in regards to...
 
Tags: kimscrafts, breach, e-commerce, credit file, credit, credit card data, kimscrafts e-commerce site, data, data security firm
 
 
 
 
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Study: Biggest businesses rely more on service providers for messaging security

2008-01-02 00:00:00 by Tim Greene in Network World on Security
 
More and more large businesses are turning to a combination of message-security services and on-site security appliances to guard against malicious behavior carried out via e-mail and other messaging software, a recent IDC study says
 
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