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FBI requests spawn network forensics start-up

2008-01-21 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Start-up Packet Analytics offers real-time security and forensics analysis tool borne out of FBI requests
 
 
 
 
 
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Positive Approach to Security Requests

2008-04-14 11:00:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...requests for new services will eventually result in a loss of credibility. Responsibility works in both directions - if you turn down a request then what impact is that having on the functioning of the business? Remember that business teams have deadlines to meet and your information security policies will not be uppermost in their thoughts...
 
 
 
 
 
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Exaggerating Timing Attack Results Via GET Flooding

2007-12-10 04:04:33 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...requests as a binary thing - one at a time or flooding. But what if we only launched enough GET requests with the intention of impacting server load, not bandwidth latency. So picking the right URL would be critical here (DB impacts, most likely When you found the right URL, launching a GET request flood against the server could seriously...
 
 
 
 
 
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A Question of Integrity: To MD5 or Not to MD5

2008-06-25 19:50:57 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
 
...requests in the US. Intermittently, under load, it was corrupting single bytes in the byte stream. When the requests reached Amazon S3, if the Content-MD5 header was specified, Amazon S3 returned an error indicating the object did not match the MD5 supplied. When no MD5 is specified, we are unable to determine if transmission errors occurred,...
 
 
 
 
 
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New Security Tools for IIS and SQL

2008-06-25 21:45:45 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
 
...requests that Internet Information Services (IIS) will process. By blocking specific HTTP requests, the UrlScan helps prevent potentially harmful requests Microsoft Source Code Analyzer for SQL Injection (MSCASI) CTP ( see the SQL Security blog for more ), a tool that can be used to detect ASP code susceptible to SQL injection attacks Scrawlr...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Random JS Malware Exploitation Kit

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2008-01-15 20:49:56 by HASH0x8be7244 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...requests. This method prevents detection of the malware in later forensic analyses And several more articles - " Hacking Toolkit Compromises Thousands Of Web Servers " ; " Trojan toolkit infected 10000 Web sites in December " ; " Legitimate sites serving up stealthy attacks ". Compared to all of the malware embedded attacks during 2007 which...
 
 
 
 
 
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Desktop computer stolen from Administrative Systems, Inc.

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2008-02-11 14:53:04 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...requests and other record-keeping functions Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Customers of various ASI partner companies Lists of companies in " Strategic Partnerships " and forms Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Name, dates of birth, mailing addresses, and Social Security numbers Breach Description On December 29th, 2008,...
 
 
 
 
 
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Gartner raises iPhone rating based on 2.0 software

2008-03-18 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Gartner raised its assessment of the iPhone 2.0 and warned IT managers to expect a flood of support requests from iPhone users -- especially requests to enable access to Exchange e-mail
 
 
 
 
 
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Skype Spamming Tool in the Wild

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2008-04-07 10:51:23 by HASH0x8ad7880 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...requests to all usernames containing John. So basically, by implementing a simple timeout limit, mass authorization requests are successfully sent. The more average the username provided, the more contacts obtained who will get spammed with anything starting from phishing attempts and going to live exploit URLs automatically infecting with...