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Reverse Compliance or "Logs as Proof of Incompetence?"

2008-05-06 17:27:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...reverse compliance" against logs Whaaaat? WTF is "reverse compliance Reverse compliance" is a motivation to purposefully avoid technologies that have a chance of telling you that you are NOT in compliance. Sadly , logging is featured very high on the list of such technologies that a) tell you about all the problems with your compliance...
 
Tags: compliance, reverse compliance, logs, pci dss, pci dss requirements, pci dss compliance, compliance posture, compliance issues, issues
 
 
 
 
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Type II Reverse Engineering

2008-10-08 04:42:08 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
...reverse engineering to understand, and then there's reverse engineering to copy. Counterfeiting is a very old human temptation, but it is keeping up with the digital world very well indeed. Putting aside ordinary movie piracy, we thought that for this issue we'd just compare some counterfeiting metrics, old and new. Putting the punchline...
 
Tags: reverse, ordinary movie piracy, matters, digital world, human temptation, information technology, compare, punchline, front
 
 
 
 
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Reverse-Engineering Exploits from Patches

2008-04-23 13:35:08 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...reverse-engineer the security vulnerability that is being patched and create exploit code to exploit it Turns out you can. What does this mean Attackers can simply wait for a patch to be released, use these techniques, and with reasonable chance, produce a working exploit within seconds. Coupled with a worm, all vulnerable hosts could be...
 
Tags: exploit, security patch, exploit code, patch, security vulnerability, simply wait, redesign windows, propose solutions, vulnerable hosts
 
 
 
 
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Hindering Reverse Engineering: Thinking Outside the Box

2008-05-22 06:22:47 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
Protecting application software from reverse engineering and piracy is key to ensuring the integrity of intellectual property and critical infrastructures. Unorthodox protection strategies can help mitigate these types of attacks. Such strategies must include random, dynamic protections to complicate the ease with which attackers can overcome...
 
Tags: strategies, unorthodox protection strategies, overcome standard approaches, dynamic protections, intellectual property, application software, reverse, critical infrastructures, include random
 
 
 
 
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Reverse Engineering: Anti-Cracking Techniques

2008-07-01 12:03:06 by Editor in Help Net Security - Articles
 
This paper is a guide into better understanding most of the approaches a reverse engineer can follow in order to achieve his goal. Additionally, it includes a number of advices on how to better protec
 
Tags: reverse engineer, follow, advices, guide, goal, protec, approaches, paper, includes
 
 
 
 
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Losing Money When There is No Volatilty

2007-01-29 09:40:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...reverse convertible bonds A conventional convertible bond offers lower interest rates but gives the investors an option to call a company's stock. The bondholder is effectively the owner of the option and the issuer is the option writer. A reverse convertible bond gives investors higher interest rates but gives the issuer the right to put...
 
Tags: option prices increase, option, option buyer, option writer, investments valuation volatility, valuation, volatility, decrease option, volatility increases
 
 
 
 
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Hackers Holy Grail - Redefined by Microsoft

2008-04-29 16:53:42 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
 
...reverse engineered It is well documented that cybercrime is not only big business, but that it is highly organized. The fact that, in the cybercrime underworld, there are markets for stolen data, toolkits (such as the Rock Phish Kit ), and services (such as renting time on Botnets) is a strong demonstration of how organized (and profitable)...
 
Tags: holy grail, microsoft, hackers holy grail, black hat community, cybercrime underworld, cybercrime, computer, gather digital evidence, reverse engineer
 
 
 
 
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Employee fraud at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage affects some customers

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2008-07-08 12:58:12 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...reverse mortgage servicing department inappropriately used another customer's account information. We have taken appropriate action against this individual Reference URL New Hampshire State Attorney General breach notification Report Credit The New Hampshire State Attorney General Response From the online source cited above Pursuant to...
 
Tags: fargo, fargo home mortgage, employee, fargo employee, reverse mortgage loan, reverse mortgage, social security, evan cool, evan
 
 
 
 
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Pinch Vulnerable to Remotely Exploitable Flaw

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2008-08-07 10:22:01 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...reverse engineering and sandboxing a particular piece of malware in order to get a better understanding of who's being it, and how successful the campaign is once access to the command and control interface is obtained, cybercriminals themselves are actively reverse engineering the most popular crimeware kits, looking, and actually finding...
 
Tags: popular crimeware kits, crimeware kits, pinch, crimeware, zeus crimeware kit, popular pinch crimeware, malware, banker malware kit, default crimeware kit
 
 
 
 
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More trustworthy election systems via SDL?

2008-02-04 23:34:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle