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TippingPoint goes 10GBPS, but do people want just IPS or UTM?

2008-03-03 21:18:06 by HASH0x8b486f4 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...sounds like it is, is a network controller that load balances traffic among several conventional Tipping Point boxes and than puts the flow back together and passes it on. Sounds cool, but I would like to see the latency involved in doing this. Sounds like a lot of moving parts. It also sounds a lot like the way Hoff used to do things over at...
 
Tags: ips, line ips, line speed ips, mike, utm, mike rothman, sounds, sounds cool, core controller appliance
 
 
 
 
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The Conscious Competence Security Model

2007-10-05 12:44:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
...sounds very depressing and sounds like we should just throw in the towel but I think it is more positive then that The Conscious Competence Learning Model has many different names and versions but the concept is as follows At first you are blissfully unaware of how much you don't know Then you start learning and get overwhelmed once you...
 
Tags: information security field, information, information security spin, information security, security, security incident, computer security, conscious competence, model
 
 
 
 
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Mike Rothman - The 419

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2008-02-08 06:31:00 by Mike Rothman in Security Mike's Blog
...sounds funky. If he outperformed the expectation, I'm sure he'd be due a nice bonus from SIT. Not an illicit $35 million dollar payout that he needs to get out of the country Other inconsistencies - You can't see the domain (I removed it), but it's a public email service in Australia. Yet the phone number he provided (I removed that also)...
 
Tags: capital investment funds, capital investment, funds, capital, magellan capital funds, direct capital funds, investment, stockmarket investment, scottish investment staff
 
 
 
 
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Confidential information sent to PinPay.net and SoftCard.biz is exposed

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2008-05-08 13:26:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Sounds impressive, but it also sounds like the company should know a thing or two about securing web site transactions with encryption I want to discuss the risk of sending confidential private information over a public network such as the internet without encryption, in particular. This is not a new topic, but I will take some time to...
 
Tags: information, drivers license card, license card, card, free card, social security card, sensitive information, sensitive personal information, encrypt sensitive information
 
 
 
 
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A Clueful Interview

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2008-06-05 23:57:00 by Richard Bejtlich in TaoSecurity
...sounds as security through obscurity has some admirers among the DRM designers. What is the role of "secrets" in a DRM system A: In software protection, obscurity is everything. You're ultimately depending on the attacker to not be able to just "see" the key or how the protection works. That sounds weak and against normal security principles...
 
Tags: security, normal security principles, rational security professional, sound security policy, obscurity, obscurity issue, interview, fight, sounds weak
 
 
 
 
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Eavesdropping on Encrypted Compressed Voice

2008-06-19 06:27:13 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...sounds That happens because the sampling rate is kept high for long complex sounds like "ow", but cut down for simple consonants like "c". This variable method saves on bandwidth, while maintaining sound quality VoIP streams are encrypted to prevent eavesdropping. However, a team from John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, US, has...
 
Tags: variable, variable method saves, compression technique, technique, john hopkins university, decode entire conversations, complex sounds, sounds, packets
 
 
 
 
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Some Yahoo! employees exposed through mistaken email

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2007-12-12 15:11:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...sounds like this is a human error. Information security breaches resulting from human error are one of the most (if not the most) challenging to protect against. Us humans often have other things on our mind. It appears as though Fidelity responded well to the incident, and I agree with their risk assessment (on this incident I do not know...
 
Tags: fidelity investments, fidelity, fidelity inadvertently, fidelity investments client, email, fidelity investments inadvertently, yahoo, administrator, email administrator
 
 
 
 
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Some Massachusetts seniors are at risk

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2007-12-04 16:17:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Sounds obvious, but to some it just doesn't sink in The data breach did not affect all members of the program, Goodwin said Comfyllama] I wonder how this conclusion is drawn? If the breach does not affect all 150,000 then why inform 150,000? Maybe Prescription Advantage doesn't know who was affected and who wasn't Prescription Advantage...
 
Tags: breach, computer security breach, breach description, prescription advantage, security breach, prescription advantage program, data-breach laws, lone identity thief, thief
 
 
 
 
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AIB technical problem discloses details of bank transfers

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2007-11-28 17:08:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Sounds like someone made a change to one or more internal systems, likely without thorough testing and/or validation Customers of the bank who either received or transferred an international payment between November 13th and 15th are affected by the error Those who received the notices were wrongly provided with details relating to someone...
 
Tags: bank, account, bank account details, aib bank, bank account, aib, details, wrong customers, customers
 
 
 
 
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Do people still fall for spam?

2006-10-28 19:14:06 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...sounds so simple (not to mention highly illegal) and yet people are falling for it. According to the survey, on days that no spam messages about the company stock were circulating, there was a 6% chance of this stock being traded. On days when spam messages were sent out urging people to buy the stock, the chance of the stocks being traded...