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This week in history - volcanos, hurricanes, and the risk of Black Swans

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2008-08-28 11:07:47 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
...similar events in the future In my ERM work with clients, and especially in the context of research Ive been doing with my colleague Stephanie Balaouras on business continuity and resiliency, questions come up about how to plan for catastrophes... and theyre good questions. Were the CardSystems or TJX data breaches foreseeable? What about the...
 
Tags: similar events, events, black swan events, black swan, plan, crisis management plan, week, colleague stephanie balaouras, argues
 
 
 
 
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July 2007 - Operating System Vulnerability Scorecard

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2007-08-16 22:47:26 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...similar but different move, created a new psdb page for their version Enterprise Linux v10 SP1 products. At first, I thought they had not released any patches since mid-June. Nope. Let me give you details. If you want to see Patches for SLES10 for 2007, they're here: http://support.novell.com/linux/psdb/i386SUSESLES10.html Patches for prior...
 
Tags: server, linux server builds, server charts, charts, ytd charts, non-linux products, linux products, linux products comments, common server roles
 
 
 
 
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Chipotle Mexican Grill employee information on USi stolen laptop

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2008-04-26 22:39:08 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...similar) appears in each of the three breach notifications that I have read about this incident. You could almost copy and paste it, eh? It is probably too early for any evidence of misuse (a smart fraudster would wait until the identity theft protection runs out, or would sell the information to someone else). Password protection (likely...
 
Tags: information, information security, confidential information, usi, information security improvement, chipotle, information security policies, chipotle information, evan
 
 
 
 
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How Secure is Secure?

2008-05-08 16:46:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...similar in that the threats and risks each of them must protect against are reasonably well understood and relatively static (meaning the threats dont change much over time). Computer security is still evolving with new classes of attacks still being discovered, and while hackers understand how to exploit known types of vulnerabilities...
 
Tags: security metrics, software security metrics, implementation vulnerabilities, potential implementation vulnerabilities, metrics, secure, software, discretionary security protection, security protection
 
 
 
 
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Boston Court's Meddling With 'Full Disclosure' Is Unwelcome

2008-08-21 04:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...similar cases in the Netherlands and the United States, courts have recently grappled with the computer-security norm of "full disclosure," asking whether researchers should be permitted to disclose details of a fare-card vulnerability that allows people to ride the subway for free The "Oyster card" used on the London Tube was at issue in the...
 
Tags: computer security improves, security improves, computer security, security, mit security researchers, security devices, security holes, disclosure, security properly
 
 
 
 
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Full Disclosure and the Boston Farecard Hack

2008-08-26 06:04:49 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...similar cases in the Netherlands and the United States, courts have recently grappled with the computer-security norm of "full disclosure," asking whether researchers should be permitted to disclose details of a fare-card vulnerability that allows people to ride the subway for free The "Oyster card" used on the London Tube was at issue in the...
 
Tags: computer security improves, security improves, computer security, security, mit security researchers, security devices, security holes, disclosure, security properly
 
 
 
 
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Skype Clarifies: The Bug Has Been Fixed

2007-08-22 12:54:28 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...similar situations should be handled. Once we found the algorithmic fix to ensure continued operation in the face of high numbers of client reboots, the efforts focused squarely on stabilising the P2P core. The fix means that we've tuned Skype's P2P core so that it can cope with simultaneous P2P network load and core size changes similar to...
 
Tags: skype, tuned skype, p2p core, core, bug, similar situations, similar, fix, tuned
 
 
 
 
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Identity Framework Probable Feature List

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2007-12-16 06:42:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
...similar These are a rather concise set notes that I've taken while looking over his code more closely. I created a wiki page to quickly hack up this list. Here's what it looks like now Fx helps you implement a custom STS STS can issue managed cards (see below Fx provides a base class for your STS, (it's currently called SecurityTokenService...
 
Tags: informationcard login control, login control, information card serializer, information, control, user authentication methods, user, custom sts, card
 
 
 
 
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Building My Windows Vista Media Center (VMC) - Part 3 - MyMovies2

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2007-11-02 23:52:49 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...Similarly, for myself, I wanted to capture all of those favorites of my own for replay on demand. After a little research, I adopted the MyMovies2 plug-in, which has two main components Media Center plug-in which shows up in the menu next to "Recorded TV" as "My Movies". There are some nice filtering and sorting features, parental control...
 
Tags: media center, movie, movie title, home media center, movie file, media center plug-in, vista media center, record movies, record