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Lloyds TSB warning may panic some customers

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2008-01-05 00:47:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...reminds me of some tips I learned from seasoned information security professionals years ago. One tip was not to raise a "red flag" unless you had something substantial to back it up. Other tips were to educate users with facts and earn trust. I am sure that Lloyds TSB's intentions are noble, but the follow-up is questionable at best. People...
 
Tags: lloyds, lloyds tsb customers, customers, lloyds tsb, lloyds tsb passwords, internet login details, internet, information, information security professionals
 
 
 
 
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More on CEP Product Complexity

2008-04-06 02:53:17 by Greg Reemler in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...reminds us that the Coral8 Engine is a developers tool, not abusiness users tool. Mark alsotacitly reminds us thathis customers are a bitsmarter thanour development team at Techrotech. Perhaps that is why we can never get our SOA project off the ground Marks customers canlearna new conceptin a single day; however,our developers need a full...
 
Tags: cep, jerry fleck, jerry, developers tool, abusiness users tool, mark alsotacitly reminds, soa, marks customers canlearna, cep engine
 
 
 
 
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Fun Reading on Security - 2

2008-05-09 12:20:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...reminds us that "security is forever" since it is about people, not broken technologies. A quote: "And so we will never able to secure other people, they have to secure them self. And we know that they can't." Same blog also have a fun (but a little bizarre with a little 80s feel) interview with Richard Stallman Along the same line,...
 
Tags: security, security industry longevity, security industry, technologies, security technologies evolution, security vendors, security perspective, security catalyst community, fun
 
 
 
 
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The Return on Investment for Securing Information

2007-08-13 00:00:00 by Sean Kline in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...reminds me of some work that I did with BearingPoint on the ROI of a Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA), a similarly challenging area in which to quantify value. The framework we used for justification involved underlying business initiatives, traditional ROI metrics and overall strategic drivers. The difficulty in quantifying a business...
 
Tags: traditional roi metrics, roi, strategic drivers, distribution channels, difficulty, investment, risk reduction, return, business initiative
 
 
 
 
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Cyberattack! Manipulation and Subversion of Financial Markets!

2008-01-08 11:55:09 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...reminds us News Moves Markets. He is certainly correct, obviously Thecybersecurity issue that I amhighlighing here is how easy it is for news to be manipulated and, in turn,subvert markets, as easily observable with Citigroups Prashant Bhatia and his commercial cyberattacks against E*Trade Financial and, most importantly,their investors
 
Tags: etrade, etrade financial, etrade bank, etrade financialis, etrade stocks, cyberattack, etrade bankruptcy risk, market, free market
 
 
 
 
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Moto Q9 DoS and Fingerprinting

2008-01-12 18:10:21 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...reminds me of what Windows95 used to be - usable but not fast. It has the new version of Microsofts mobile operating system on there with direct push on there (similar to Blackberry which saves battery life, Im sure, for real time email), a 2mega pixel camera, etc etc Fun little toy. So id and I were driving around town and I was messing with...
 
Tags: accept language, accept, devcap, devcap charset, devcap numsoftkeys, accept charset, devcap screenpixels, cell phone hacker, phone
 
 
 
 
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What Constitutes A $7B Control Failure?

2008-01-25 16:01:33 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
 
...reminds us that it requires an understanding of how the various types of risk (operational, market, credit, etc.) are often intertwined
 
Tags: wall street journal, control failure, risk, 31-year-old jrme kerviel, companys risk management, story, kerviel, story reminds, coverage
 
 
 
 
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Fun Reading from Mike R

2008-02-19 17:59:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...reminds to enable logging on databases Understanding where SIM ends and log management begins " talks about SIM being one application on top of a log management platform About me: http://www.chuvakin.org
 
Tags: log management begins, log management platform, sim, forensics mindset, life easier, mike rothman, fun pieces, compliance remains, audit revolution
 
 
 
 
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On Inevitability of Compromise

2008-02-25 14:31:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...reminds all about the "inevitability of compromise" here : "This year I want to focus on the inevitability of compromise. [...] I mean the fact that your users will do something stupid and thus they will get 0wned and that means your environment will be compromised. Nowadays, its just too easy to get nailed. The users dont have to do...
 
Tags: logs, database logs, compromise, inevitability, mike, mike reminds, bad guys, users, drive-by downloads
 
 
 
 
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Risk of Knowing Too Much About Risk

2008-03-06 06:24:50 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...reminds them that they control a car but don't control a bus. A car just feels safer. "We have to work real hard in the presence of images to get the analytical part of risk response to work in our brains," says Slovic. "It's not easy at all And we're making it harder by disclosing more risks than ever to more people than ever. Not only does...
 
Tags: intuitive, intuitive risk processors, analytical, analytical rigor, intuitive response, brains process risk, brains react, images, dreadful images