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What to watch for - the Rest of the Fortune 500 Gets Their Software Security

2008-09-18 15:06:51 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
The financial industry drives a lot of what happens in security. They have had a lot of money, and lots of people try to steal from them their customers. They did drive some good stuff, but only from one vertical's perspective. I have advocated for awhile that software security look to other verticals to understand their security needs. Now that...
 
Tags: software security, security, government customer, government, government people, people, financial people, software security vendors, financial services people
 
 
 
 
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Links for 2008-12-01 [del.icio.us]

2008-12-02 00:00:00 by Editor in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
Last In - First Out: Jankes Official 2009 Technology Predictions Prediction 6: There will be a major security panic over some widely used but inherently insecure Internet protocol. The problem will not get resolved. Prediction 9: Web Apps will continue to be deployed with a 1:1 ratio of new web applications to applications that are vulnerable to...
 
Tags: web applications, technology predictions prediction, applications, prediction, ratio, major security panic, ratio constant, jankes official, sql injection
 
 
 
 
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Phreaknic 12 (2008) Hacker Con

2008-10-29 05:59:17 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
New Video: Phreaknic 12 (2008) Hacker Con This is a quick and dirty video documentary of the things that when on around the talks and event at Phreaknic 12 (2008). Don't watch if you get sick at shaky cam movies like Blair Witch or Cloverfield. A rough timeline of the content in the video is as follows Intro and leaving Louisville with Brian....
 
Tags: con, phreaknic, video, con swag overview, source video editor, talks, sorteal talks, hacker con, lee eat jerky
 
 
 
 
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More on Fallacy #4

2008-05-16 13:04:06 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
Steve Jones on Rest and Distributed Computing Fallacies One of the objections I've had about REST for a while is that it appears to ignore Deutsch's fallacies of network computing 1. The network is reliable 2. Latency is zero 3. Bandwidth is infinite 4. The network is secure 5. Topology doesn't change 6. There is one administrator 7. Transport...
 
Tags: secure service, service, rest, rest specifies, service firewall pattern, network, fallacies, secure, pretty solveable
 
 
 
 
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Sleep more and live longer

2008-10-31 03:16:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
An interesting study was discussed on WTOP radio today It seems that two Swedish doctors conducted a sleep study between 1987 and 2006. Their findings have been published in the New England School of Medicine's records They discovered that 5% more heart attacks were recorded the Monday after clocks go forward. At the same time, there were less...
 
Tags: heart attacks, hour, hour shift, forward, rest, set forward, clocks, drive home, monday
 
 
 
 
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Diminutive XSS Worm Contest Drama and Status Update

2008-01-06 17:34:38 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
Well, so far this week has probably been one of the most interesting Ive had in running this site in a long time, not only from a technical perspective, but the ethical debate on whether I am sheer evil or contributing to the greater good rose its ugly head once again. This was in regards to the diminutive XSS worm contest . One of my favorites...
 
Tags: browser companies, browser, browser security arena, code, people visit, people, worm code, diminutive xss worm, xss worm
 
 
 
 
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Fear Is Unhealthy

2008-01-17 07:35:09 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
The New York Times writes about a plausible connection between fear and heart disease: Which is more of a threat to your health: Al Qaeda or the Department of Homeland Security An intriguing new study suggests the answer is not so clear-cut. Although its impossible to calculate the pain that terrorist attacks inflict on victims and society, when...
 
Tags: people terrorists kill, terrorists, terrorism, actual terrorism, kill, people, fear, million people, fearful people
 
 
 
 
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J.C. Penney customers affected by lost GE Money backup tape

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2008-01-18 10:24:59 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 1/18/08 Update to " GE Money and Iron Mountain unable to locate tape Organization J.C. Penney Contractor/Consultant/Branch GE Money Iron Mountain Victims J.C. Penney customers and the customers of "up to 100 other retailers" which include "many of the large retail organizations Number Affected...
 
Tags: penney, penney customers, tape, backup tape, money, sensitive personal information, personal information, penney card immediately, information security practices
 
 
 
 
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Lost Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey laptop

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2008-02-11 13:52:36 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 1/29/08 Organization Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (BCBSNJ Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (Horizon BCBSNJ), a not-for-profit organization headquartered in Newark, is the state's largest health insurer Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Horizon BCBSNJ members ...
 
Tags: horizon, horizon bcbsnj takes, horizon bcbsnj, data, medical data, jersey, remotely destroy data, bcbsnj, laptop
 
 
 
 
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The First Step on the Road to More Secure Software is admitting you have a Problem

2008-02-21 14:26:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
Hi, Michael here I am always bemused when Jeff Jones performs in-depth security vulnerability analysis and reports his findings , not because of the content of his findings, but because of the incredible arm-chair commentary that follows Jeff and I have seen and heard it all This is FUD Yeah, but it's not an apples to apples comparison How can...