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Terror on the Internet - Conflict of Interest

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2008-03-18 19:58:23 by HASH0x8471fd8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...remains an idea yet to be considered. Back in 2007, I did an experiment, namely I crawled ten cyber jihadist forums and blogs and extracted all the outgoing links from these communities to see their preferred choice for online video and files hosting. A couple of months later, the communities got shut down, so when the same thing happened...
 
Tags: cyber jihadist, cyber jihadist communities, novice cyber jihadists, jihadists, cyber jihadist forums, cyber jihadist sites, attract cyber jihadists, internet, cyber jihadists
 
 
 
 
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The Template-ization of Malware Serving Sites

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2008-07-10 16:59:13 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...remains the most widely used rogue ActiveX in the majority of fake codec campaigns for the last couple of months. The ActiveX is largely abused by using another fake porn site template for PornTube , which in combination result in nothing more than huge domain portfolios with no content at all if we exclude the Zlob variants And while...
 
Tags: malicious domains remain, malicious domains, tonsofporn activex remains, tonsofporn activex, domains, generic detection approaches, generic detection, activex, fake activex
 
 
 
 
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The Fallacy of Self-Fulfilling CEP Use Case Studies

2008-08-06 15:30:13 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...remains mostlyunsolved with a verylow signal-to-noise ratio Also, mostbusinesseswould liketo detect fraud and other criminal activity on their network beforethe activitiesadverselyimpacts their business. Thisproblem remains unsolved for most companies Scientific researchersseekmodels of weather, epidemiology, and so much more; and they need...
 
Tags: cep, cep products, believethey maydefine cep, detect, liketo detect fraud, cep vendors, current generation products, complex events, define
 
 
 
 
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Summarizing August's Threatscape

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2008-09-10 06:57:32 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...remains questionable on whether or not they work on a revenue-sharing basis, are simply providing the anti-abuse hosting, or are the shady conspirators that every newly born RBN expert is positioning them to be Cheap conversation regarding the RBN ultimately serves the RBN, and just for the record, there's a RBN alternative in every country,...
 
Tags: malware, facebook malware campaigns, usefulness pinch malware, banker malware kits, malware campaigns, botnet, diy botnet kit, distribute malware, banker malware
 
 
 
 
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Web Based Malware Eradicates Rootkits and Competing Malware

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2008-10-01 18:08:43 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...remains infected with. What's really special about its command and control interface is that it's AJAX based, with the seller pitching the feature as "you no longer have to hit F5 in order to see how's your malware campaign doing Here's a brief (translated) description Simultaneously execute different campaigns, allocate specific bots for...
 
Tags: malware, web based malware, malware campaign, removes rootkits remains, removes, hosts, hosts file, unknown due, remove rootkits
 
 
 
 
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Sun acquires Vauu

2007-11-14 08:25:51 by Andras Cser in Security & Risk Management
 
...remains to be seen how Sun will handle the multiplatform challenge and keeping RBACx alive non-Sun operating systems. System integrators now have one less choice for picking an independent role magagement vendor. Eurekify, BHOLD, and Omada will likely now to receive acquisition offers from other large IAM suite vendors trying to complete...
 
Tags: sun, rbacx alive non-sun, rbacx, enterprise role maintenance, receive acquisition offers, iam suite vendors, role management portfolio, identity management portfolio, compliance requirements
 
 
 
 
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HMRC loses data cartridge that affects 6,548 pensioners

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2007-12-31 23:30:11 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...remains secure at HMRC? This is the seventh breach concerning HMRC this year, and the fourth reported on The Breach Blog since October. The head of HMRC already resigned in November as a result of these breaches. Who else should be held accountable? I have lost patience with these people Obviously (or maybe not), the proper use of encryption...
 
Tags: data, data cartridge, hmrc, lost hmrc cd, prime data, confidential data, hmrc breach, consult hmrc, hmrc encrypts
 
 
 
 
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S&K Menswear two-phased attack

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2008-01-03 10:40:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...remains a top priority. We have made and will continue to make significant investments in security software, systems and procedures, and will remain vigilant about protecting you We want to answer any questions and address any concerns that you may have about this matter. For more information, including a list of Frequently Asked Question...
 
Tags: information, personal information, information security practices, notification, information security, breach notification letter, sample customer letter, credit card, credit card data
 
 
 
 
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Myth vs. reality: Wireless SSIDs

2007-10-16 07:08:58 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...remains true: security by obscurity is no security at all. Hiding an SSID will not hide a wireless network, so ignore any such advice -- and it's amazing how often I continue to see this. By the way, also ignore any advice that says to use MAC address filtering . It's amazingly trivial to spoof the MAC address of an allowed supplicant --...
 
Tags: simple ssid discovery, network, ssid, wireless network, networks, enterprise networks, wireless networks, mac, secure networks