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Mujahideen Secrets 2

2008-02-08 05:39:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Secrets 2 is a new version of an encryption tool, ostensibly written to help Al Qaeda members encrypt secrets as they communicate on the Internet A bunch of sites have covered this story , and a couple of security researchers are quoted in the various articles. But quotes like this make you wonder if they have any idea what they're talking...
 
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Mujahideen Secrets 2 Encryption Tool Released

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2008-01-21 15:37:17 by HASH0x8b0f9c4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Secrets encryption tool was released online approximately two days ago, on behalf of the Al-Ekhlaas Islamic Network. Original and translated press release Is the first program of the Islamic multicast security across networks. It represents the highest level of technical multicast encrypted but far superior. All communications software,...
 
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7 dirty secrets of the security industry

2008-05-01 00:00:00 by Tim Greene in Network World on Security
 
Corporate IT executives need to beware the seven dirty secrets of the security industry that can undermine the safety of business networks, a security expert told attendees at Interop Las Vegas
 
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Privacy and Power

2008-03-11 06:09:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...secrets, you can't use my secrets as a weapon against me This might not be everybody's idea of utopia -- and it certainly doesn't address the inherent value of privacy -- but this theory has a glossy appeal, and could easily be mistaken for a way out of the problem of technology's continuing erosion of privacy. Except it doesn't work, because...
 
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Terror on the Internet - Conflict of Interest

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2008-03-18 19:58:23 by HASH0x8471fd8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Secrets encryption tool v1.0 and v2.0. Terror on the Internet: A Complex Issue, and Getting Harder Indeed, politicians around the world call at regular intervals for terrorist websites to be removed from their host sites servers or for search engines to block access to them. They also call for laws that would make posting instructions on how...
 
Tags: cyber jihadist, cyber jihadist communities, novice cyber jihadists, jihadists, cyber jihadist forums, cyber jihadist sites, attract cyber jihadists, internet, cyber jihadists
 
 
 
 
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China's CERT Annual Security Report - 2007

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2008-04-21 02:34:07 by HASH0x8b2001c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...secrets and secrets of the state and enterprises incalculable losses, the Chinese mainland are implanted into the Trojan Horse computer controlled source, the majority in China's Taiwan region, the phenomenon has been brought to the agency's attention. Zombie network is still the basic network attacks platform means and resources. 2007 CNCERT...
 
Tags: china, internet infrastructure, chinese internet infrastructure, chinese, zombie network flow, zombie network, interestingly chinese, infrastructure, chinese underground economy
 
 
 
 
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Service Canada employee loses flash drive

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2008-06-28 23:18:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...secrets or of national interest (such as National Defence secrets) AND are serious about IT security would disable floppy disk drives and USB ports on most computers Evan] Most "organisations" should, but unfortunately most do not Commentary I would like to think that this is an isolated incident at Service Canada, but I don't think that it...
 
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Security is bigger than finding and fixing bugs

2008-08-14 20:09:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...secrets.aspx about Googles security secrets Quoting from the article In order to keep its products safe, Google has adopted a philosophy of 'security as a cultural value'. The programme includes mandatory security training for developers, a set of in-house security libraries, and code reviews both by Google developers and outside security...
 
Tags: security, security researchers, security vulnerabilities, computer security experts, googles security secrets, in-house security libraries, security program, microsoft products, sdl
 
 
 
 
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Cyber espionage something to worry about?

2007-12-14 15:48:00 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...secrets from Western nations. New Zealand Prime, Minister Helen Clark, confirmed that foreign intelligence agencies had tried to hack into government computer networks, but had not compromised top-secret data banks. The Chinese government has denied any involvement 3. In its annual report to Congress, The U.S.-China Economic And Security...
 
Tags: computer networks, government computer networks, networks, government, chinese government, american government agencies, cyber espionage, china, government agencies