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TechEd 2009: Never too early to start planning

2008-08-25 18:25:45 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
What's on your mind? What do you want to learn more about? Tell me, tell me Oh, and for 2009 I plan to stay at TechEd US for both weeks. I want to start spending more time with developers -- they need some security love too
 
Tags: security love, start, developers, time, plan, mind, weeks, stay
 
 
 
 
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How To Become A Security Blogger?

2008-08-29 11:07:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
I know, I know. Some might say that it is a silly question since you rarely seek to become a blogger - you just become one However, I got a few emails from my readers asking me something along these line, thus this post. For example, I got asked "Should I focus more on targeting security professionals or general IT users?", "Any pitfalls I...
 
Tags: security, blogger, security blogger, posts, bloggers posts, longerdeep posts, security professionals, site design, design
 
 
 
 
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Dissecting a Managed Spamming Service

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2008-07-30 05:32:44 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
With cybercrime getting easier to outsource these days, and with the overall underground economy's natural maturity from products to services, " managed spamming appliances " and managed spamming services are becoming rather common. Increasingly, these "vendors" are starting to "vertically integrate", namely, start diversifying the portfolio of...
 
Tags: spam, spam message, spam discounts, spam database, spam databases, spam email, email, emails based, email servers
 
 
 
 
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Book Review: The Pragmatic CSO

2008-01-02 15:24:45 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
When I saw Mike Rothmans name on the San Diego ISSA meeting speaker list, I tried to be the first person in the room. Yes, there were more technical talks I could have attended, but why would I want to? If you have never seen or talked to Mike, he is gruff, funny, and knowledgeable about security. I consider Mike to be a friend, so it wasnt a...
 
Tags: book, book mike, technical book, security community, security, security business, mike, mike rothman, mike rothmans
 
 
 
 
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NAC for grown-ups

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2008-03-13 23:06:10 by HASH0x89079f8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
I guess maybe if you sell to the .edu crowd a lot, after a while you start thinking that all of your users are juvenile. As a result you start thinking in terms of your product protecting against adolescents who are not smart, mature or capable enough of taking care of themselves. You start thinking of yourself and the people who use your...
 
Tags: network users, network users arrogant, network, network administrators, nac, users, nac solution, nac product, product
 
 
 
 
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NAC for grown-ups

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2008-03-13 23:58:00 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
I guess maybe if you sell to the .edu crowd a lot, after a while you start thinking that all of your users are juvenile. As a result you start thinking in terms of your product protecting against adolescents who are not smart, mature or capable enough of taking care of themselves. You start thinking of yourself and the people who use your...
 
Tags: network users, network users arrogant, network, network administrators, nac, users, nac solution, nac product, product
 
 
 
 
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Storm-Bot stripshow analysis

2007-12-23 22:06:00 by Russ McRee in HolisticInfoSec.org
 
Merry Christmas from the RBN. Now on a PC near you, a stripshow from Santa's helpers. Or not The ISC reported the expected Storm surge Christmas eve at 0000 GMT hxxp://merrychristmas.com/stripshow.exe (modified to protect the innocent) yields a hash of 2BBA62FBC3B9AF85C3C7D64A82E1237C. Once executed it immediately copies itself as disnisa.exe to...
 
Tags: 40d9f1 connect, w32tm config syncfromflags, config, time, quick time check, w32tm config, exe, src78, dst192
 
 
 
 
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Fake Security Software Domains Serving Exploits

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2008-08-28 06:41:10 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Psychological imagination, "think cybercriminals" mentality or scenario building intelligence, seem to always produce the results they are supposed to. On Monday, I pointed out that Ironically, the participant in the affiliate program whose original objective was to drive traffic to the fake security software's site, may in fact start receiving...
 
Tags: exploits, domains, client-side exploits courtesy, client-side exploits start, start, fake security software, antivirus, google adwords, fake domains portfolio
 
 
 
 
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Serving Malware Through Advertising Networks

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2008-02-18 10:58:53 by HASH0x8bfe2fc in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
In need of fresh binaries and malware serving domains? Start feeding your honeyfarm, or professional interests by participating in an affiliate network -- just like pharmaceutical scammers do -- that's literally serving live exploit URLs and dropping malware in real-time Upon registering at xbanners.biz, you're enticed to IFRAME your web...
 
Tags: malware, php attempt, php, neosploit malware kit, xtraff, exploit, live exploit urls, urls, htm