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Russia's 'Full Scale Invasion' of Georgia

2008-08-09 22:30:00 by Noah Shachtman in Wired Security
 
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili says "Russia has launched a full scale military invasion." He's calling for "an immediate ceasefire" in a conflict that Russian officials claim has killed 2,000 and left 30,000 homeless
 
Tags: russian officials claim, scale military invasion, russia, homeless, ceasefire, conflict
 
 
 
 
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Border Gateway Protocol Might Be Exploited On Previously Presumed To Be Unavailable Scale

2008-08-27 16:18:48 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
...scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency. The tactic exploits the internet routing protocol BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) to let an attacker surreptitiously monitor unencrypted internet traffic anywhere in the
 
Tags: border gateway protocol, internet, internet traffic, attacker surreptitiously monitor, national security agency, scale previously, tactic exploits, unavailable, protocol bgp
 
 
 
 
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The DDoS Attack Against CNN.com

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2008-04-22 19:30:53 by HASH0x8b2d1ec in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...scale people's information warfare in action . Utilizing the bandwidth of the over 200 million nationalism minded Chinese Internet users, can greatly outpace any botnet's capacity if coordinated, or though the use of automated DIY tools, like the ones we've seen released for the purpose of attacking CNN.com CNN.com was indeed inacessible for...
 
Tags: ddos, ddos-ing cnn, cnn, ddos people, warfare, information warfare attack, attack, ddos attack, chinese script kiddies
 
 
 
 
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MetroFi Plans Market Exit: Sale or Shutter

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2008-05-15 21:47:12 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...scale Wi-Fi firms, if you count EarthLink's municipal wireless division as a separate operation, and Kite Networks, which was a subsidiary of a larger telecom firm. Each company had made a unique network hardware choice--MetroFi, SkyPilot; Kite, Strix; and EarthLink Tropos plus Motorola--and each had a sort of specialty. Interestingly, a...
 
Tags: metro-scale wi-fi, wi-fi, large-city wi-fi network, wi-fi providers, wi-fi network, york wi-fi plan, city, city dollars, super-fast wi-fi network
 
 
 
 
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Security Services Deployment in Federated World

2008-06-25 13:25:43 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...scale as well. In my opinion, this is the single biggest issue we face in security today - how do find useful things that solve security problems, that can scale in real world systems To that end, my favorite paper in a long time was written by Patrick Harding , Leif Johansson, and Nate Klingensteincalled " Dynamic Security Assertion Markup...
 
Tags: security, security protocol design, architecture, security architecture, metadata, metadata validation, metadata trust fabric, security mechanisms, dynamic federation
 
 
 
 
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MDAC ActiveX Code Execution Exploit Still in the Wild

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2007-12-05 12:08:56 by HASH0x89e6630 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...scale dgst.cgs.gov.cn/docc/index.htm dhyjagri.gov.cn/program/images/img/New/index.htm sell.c2bsales.com/look.htm nesoy.com/svcdir/index.htm qyxjxx.com/admin/inc/index.htm xi530.com jzkj.icp365.cn/index.htm 52fans.net 218.84.59.218/img/c 918a.com.cn/123/index.htm flch.net/img/img/liqiuf.htm jiashiyin.com/qq/index.htm...
 
Tags: exploit, day, day vulnerabilities, htm, malware, malware exploitation kit, single exploit urls, vulnerabilities, storm worm apparently
 
 
 
 
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Phishing Pages for Every Bank are a Commodity

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2008-03-31 03:21:55 by HASH0x8b37d14 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...scale concept, the spamming process of phishing emails, and of course, the arms race between the targeted brands and the phishers in terms of catching up with each other's activities In the very same way, malware authors apply Quality and Assurance practices to their malware releases by sandboxing, making sure they have a low detection rate...
 
Tags: pages, phishers, myspace phishers, commodity, emails database, scale, scale concept, emails, bargain
 
 
 
 
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Measuring Vulnerability

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2008-04-14 14:31:38 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is
...scale for some threat categories (e.g., human capability Our measurements are imprecise (e.g., we cant measure force or resistance perfectly One or more of the values being measured may vary over time (e.g., hurricane wind speed varies throughout the lifetime of the storm, and strength can change throughout the lifetime of a control One or...
 
Tags: threat capability curve, capability, human capability, human threat capability, describe control strength, control strength, capability curve, threat community capability, control
 
 
 
 
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DIY Exploit Embedding Tool - A Proprietary Release

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2008-04-28 04:45:00 by HASH0x8ae3bb8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...scale, that is the use of web malware exploitation kits compared to their 1.0 alternative, the DIY tools, such tools continue to be developed, like this proprietary one including sixteen exploits for the buyer to take advantage of, if she's willing to invest 100 (GBP) of course. Exploits listed D-Link MPEG4 VAPGDecoder ActiveX Macrovision...
 
Tags: activex, myspace uploader activex, jukebox activex, winzip fileview activex, symantec backupexec activex, realplayer activex, facebook uploader activex, tools, tools continue