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This week in history - volcanos, hurricanes, and the risk of Black Swans

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2008-08-28 11:07:47 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
...remember that far back, this week is also the 3rd anniversary of Hurricane Katrinas devastating sweep across a wide stretch of the US Gulf Coast By now, I expect that most of you have read or are familiar with the 2007 book, The Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb , which argues that these kinds of unpredictable, outlying occurrences are the...
 
Tags: similar events, events, black swan events, black swan, plan, crisis management plan, week, colleague stephanie balaouras, argues
 
 
 
 
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Supporting your family, friends, and neighbors

2008-02-13 17:45:40 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...remember, quick to type, and far stronger than any short complex password. A passphrase like this will withstand any kind of automated password attack, including those based on rainbow tables. And you can even use a method that helps you remember unique phrases for each site, if you wish Web mail: "my dog and i got the mail Shopping: "my dog...
 
Tags: suspicious e-mail message, mail, home computers defense, home computers, e-mail, home, web mail, windows live mail, site
 
 
 
 
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Ted Kennedy: a lifetime of achievement, regrets of a world that could have been

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2008-05-21 00:04:43 by HASH0x8b0b1b8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...remember Ted Kennedy. I do not mean this as a eulogy or obituary and in fact hope against all that I have read and heard that a miracle will grant him many more years of serving in the Senate. But it seems Teddy has a tough road ahead and this is as good as a time as any to speak out One of my earliest memories of current events was when...
 
Tags: ted kennedy, kennedy, remember ted kennedy, ted, john kennedy, bobby kennedy, bobby, bobby shortly, remember
 
 
 
 
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Crypto-Gram Tenth Anniversary Issue

2008-05-15 11:13:10 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...remember why I decided not to -- did someone convince me, or did I figure it out myself -- but it was easily the smartest decision I made about this newsletter. If I'd charged money for the thing, no one would have read it. Since I didn't, lots of people subscribed There were 457 subscribers by the end of the first day. After that,...
 
Tags: crypto-gram, crypto-gram entries, blog online, blog, security products, snake-oil security products, blog entries, crypto-gram format, format
 
 
 
 
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The Catalyst gives way to the Nexus

2008-01-28 23:05:30 by HASH0x8b13768 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...remember the Cisco Catalyst line of switches have defined Cisco's high end best in class switch line. I remember evaluating potential web hosting companies in my days at Interliant and when talking about their data center and connectivity, they defined it by how many 6500's they had. Over the years the variety of IOS versions was maddening to...
 
Tags: cisco catalyst line, nexus, cisco, cisco folks, data center switches, data center, nexus supports trustsec, switches, class switch line
 
 
 
 
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More on the necessity of antivirus software

2007-09-25 17:53:47 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...Remember what I wrote: "I know what to click and what to skip, what to visit and what to avoid. I have control over what I choose to open, what I choose to load, and what I choose to run." Do you have similar self-control If you're the security administrator for an organization, you should not make this tradeoff. Again, remember what I wrote...
 
Tags: antivirus software, computers, client computers, similar self-control, control, involve tradeoffs, previous post, personal computers, post
 
 
 
 
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Password policies. Once again.

2007-09-04 22:14:00 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...remember, quick to type, and far stronger than any short complex password. A passphrase like this will withstand any kind of automated password attack, including those based on rainbow tables. And you can even use a method that helps you remember unique phrases for each site, if you wish web mail: "my dog and i got the mail shopping: "my dog...
 
Tags: account, enable account lockout, password, account lockouts, disable account lockout, 42-day default expiration, default, expiration, password expires
 
 
 
 
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Polyphasic Sleep

2007-03-20 21:04:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...remember being tired when I was on those regiments, but I do remember being highly productive Once the project was over I would immediately revert back to my monophasic ways, happy to be done with whatever project I was working on. I never knew it was a way of life for some people From reading about it, polyphasic sleep does make sense....
 
Tags: polyphasic, develop polyphasic behaviors, naps, polyphasic sleepers, minute naps, nature exhibit polyphasic, monophasic world, monophasic, caffeine
 
 
 
 
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Fuzz Testing at Microsoft and the Triage Process

2007-09-20 18:52:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...remember that this classification doesn't exclude a tester from the requirement of having to triage all exceptions. The "Must Fix" category was composed of write access violations, read access violations on EIP, /GS and NX related access violations and read access violations where any one of the following was true The access violation happens...
 
Tags: chance exceptions, exceptions, exception handler, exception, divide-by-zero exception, exception code, triage process, process, first-chance exceptions