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Blu-ray Celebration Will be Short Lived

2008-02-24 09:21:47 by mcurphey in Mark Curphey - SecurityBuddha.com
 
I had no vested interested in the battle between HD-DVD and Blu-ray but watched out of interest to study how the techonomy operated. More importantly I was interested in how the techonomy is changing. Now Blu-ray has won the battle of the physical media formats, we can look to the period (in a few short
 
Tags: blu-ray, physical media formats, battle, techonomy, short, period, hd-dvd, study, importantly
 
 
 
 
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Fiber: Review of Optics, Cables & Connectors

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2008-04-05 03:22:59 by JJ in Security Uncorked
...short snippets. I like to dig around the search terms, comments and emails to see what you want to know more about, and Ive seen a lot of interest in fiber information The fiber types (such as multi-mode, single-mode), standards (SX, LX, LH) and connectors (LC, ST, SC) seem to be a topics that need clarification about 80% of the time when...
 
Tags: cables, simplex fiber cables, fiber, connectors, fiber cables, short fiber runs, short, single-mode, single-mode fiber
 
 
 
 
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Crypto-Gram Tenth Anniversary Issue

2008-05-15 11:13:10 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...short for the September issue, but I found that I couldn't stop writing. Two weeks later, I published a special issue on the terrorist attacks. Readers forwarded that issue again and again, and I ended up with many new subscribers as a result Reader comments began earlier, in December 1998 . I found I was getting some really intelligent...
 
Tags: crypto-gram, crypto-gram entries, blog online, blog, security products, snake-oil security products, blog entries, crypto-gram format, format
 
 
 
 
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Shimel Wants To Sell You A Dead Parrot. On An Iceberg. Slathered In GRC

2008-05-15 15:38:28 by rmogull in securosis.com
 
...short sighted if you think these products are just about the reports. Without actually doing the analysis and investigation the reports are meaningless. In my mind is much like SIM reports. Without actionability and correlation, how much value are the SIM reports Thats what our security tools are supposed to do in the first place. I believe...
 
Tags: grc, grc tools offer, tools, grc vendors, security tools, confuse grc, grc trap, compliance, grc tool
 
 
 
 
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Fun Security Reading - 3

2008-05-15 14:11:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...short posts with links and commentary, I will now combine them into my new blog series " Fun Reading on Security " or "FRoS." Here is an issue #3, dated May 15, 2008 First, watch Dave Aitel beats the dead horse of academic security "research." Quote: "people who write papers in LaTeX two-column format end up saying the sky has a high negative...
 
Tags: security, fun security, security efficiency, data security compromise, fun, security chasm, risk, people perceive risk, academic security
 
 
 
 
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Implementing Enterprise Visibility by Leading Change

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2008-03-23 18:52:00 by Richard Bejtlich in TaoSecurity
...short-term wins Consolidate gains and produce more change Anchor new approaches in the culture Failure to follow these eight steps often result in failed change efforts. Kotter notes for item 1 that the goal is to make the status quo seem more dangerous than launching into the unknown... When is the urgency rate high enough? [T]he answer...
 
Tags: change, kotter advises, kotter, change efforts, visibility, kotter counsels communication, major change include, vision, change vision
 
 
 
 
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Stiennon says NAC is dead - I must be in heaven!

2008-05-02 22:48:36 by HASH0x8472590 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...short time there he left. He than took a whirl at his own analyst firm, when a few others were forging a new breed of analyst firm and after a short time doing that moved on again. He then was CMO at Fortinet and again after a short time left there too. Now he is the CEO of an MSSP (hey, I hear SaaS is the next big thing), how long this will...
 
Tags: nac, solution, nac solution, nac vendors, market, stock market, nac market, richard, richard stiennon
 
 
 
 
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Duke School of Law breach affects 3,200

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2007-12-06 11:37:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...short time that the site was reposted As we further evaluated the site, we found that several databases stored on the server were exposed during the attack Comfyllama] Databases on a web server? Bad There were two databases containing sensitive or potentially sensitive information. The first held records containing information submitted by...
 
Tags: school, duke school, breach, security, comfyllama social security, complete, breach description, complete security scan, security breach
 
 
 
 
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Password policies. Once again.

2007-09-04 22:14:00 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...short sentence) is easy to remember, quick to type, and far stronger than any short complex password. A passphrase like this will withstand any kind of automated password attack, including those based on rainbow tables. And you can even use a method that helps you remember unique phrases for each site, if you wish web mail: "my dog and i got...
 
Tags: account, enable account lockout, password, account lockouts, disable account lockout, 42-day default expiration, default, expiration, password expires
 
 
 
 
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Supporting your family, friends, and neighbors

2008-02-13 17:45:40 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security