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In Next-Gen Bullets and Bombs, Even the Casing Explodes

2008-05-07 01:00:00 by David Hambling in Wired Security
 
...stone and concrete, mines that can be set to stun or kill, and grenades that can swat rockets or mortar rounds out of the sky like flies You can get effects that are more precisely tailored to a particular target," says John Pike, director of Washington military research group GlobalSecurity.org . "And you're able to get a greater effect out...
 
Tags: amounts, release explosive amounts, release, metal, hollow metal cone, explosive, energy, reliably release energy, metal liner
 
 
 
 
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Phishers, Spammers, and Malware Authors Clearly Consolidating

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2007-12-09 21:14:53 by HASH0x89fa6a4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...stones before reaching the final destination , with China's highly malware infected Internet population acting as the stepping-stone, not the original source of the attack Security researchers said the memorandum, which was obtained by The New York Times from an executive at a private company, included a list of Web and Internet addresses...
 
Tags: malware, malware attachments, malware attack, malware authors, hand malware authors, spammers, modern malware, storm worm malware, emails courtesy
 
 
 
 
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Dutch RFID Transit Card Hacked

2008-01-21 06:35:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...stone on which to stand. On Jan. 8, 2008, they released a statement abut their work Most of the links are in Dutch; there isn't a whole lot of English-language press about this. But the Dutch Parliament recently invited the students to give testimony; they're more than a little bit interested how $2B could be wasted My guess is the system was...
 
Tags: dutch, chip, mifare classic chip, mifare chip, dutch parliament recently, circuitry, internal circuitry, secret cryptographic algorithm, statement abut
 
 
 
 
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Creating and Entrapping Terrorists

2008-03-05 06:25:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Stone has this excellent article on the topic, about the Joint Terrorism Task Forces in the U.S.: But a closer inspection of the cases brought by JTTFs reveals that most of the prosecutions had one thing in common: The defendants posed little if any demonstrable threat to anyone or anything. According to a study by the Center on Law and...
 
Tags: terrorist, modern terrorist, hossain, terrorist conspiracies, deal hossain claims, yassin aref, aref, terrorist plot, stop federal agents
 
 
 
 
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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
...stone to hit others country's infrastructures, thereby contributing to the possibility to engineer cyber warfare tensions A week ago, China's CERT released their annual security report (in Chinese for the time being), outlining the local threatscape with data indicating the increasing efficiency applied by Turkish web site defacement...
 
Tags: china, internet infrastructure, chinese internet infrastructure, chinese, zombie network flow, zombie network, interestingly chinese, infrastructure, chinese underground economy
 
 
 
 
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From Apathy to Enlightenment: On A Log!

2008-04-22 13:48:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...Stone Age? ... Sharpened Stick Age? to modernity? Most companies go thru the following in regards to their logging Deep log ignorance : "Logs? What are those Shallow log ignorance : "Later...later...later... #37 on the TODO list Log collection : "We gather and store dead log data...cold Log searching : "We will dig into the pile when we have...
 
Tags: log, log management, deep log ignorance, log analysis systems, home-grown log analysis, log review, log management vendor, log analysis, systems
 
 
 
 
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Portable Identity and the BBC

2008-04-29 14:30:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...Stone , on his blog, makes the bold statement that "getting identity right is key to our future plans." I couldn't agree more. Managing identity is central to the future and long term success of everything from social networking to eCommerce. For their part, the BBC are currently looking at the concept of " portable identity ." Good job if...
 
Tags: portable identity, identity, user-centric digital identity, bbc, mobile phone, future plans, future, openid, openid foundation
 
 
 
 
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Is it time to abandon credit card payments and go back to cash?

2008-05-13 00:00:00 by Linda Musthaler in Network World on Security
 
About two years ago, I had a conversation with a family member about his Stone Age practice of using cash and checks for almost every purchase. He admitted to owning just one credit card and no ATM or debit card, and he didnt even know about online banking
 
Tags: credit card, stone age practice, debit card, cash, checks, purchase, ago, online, conversation
 
 
 
 
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We're From the Government and Were Here to Protect You

2008-04-15 12:02:05 by Posted By: Kristen Noakes-Fry, Research Director in IT Leaders - Security and Risk Management
 
...stone wall He was connected with ER and told that no patient with my name was in ER and that no one from a motorcycle accident had been brought in that evening. Then he called the ambulance company, which, due to HIPAA requirements, could not reveal patient information but after he pleaded recalled that they had dispatched an ambulance that...
 
Tags: accident, motorcycle accident, city, city medical center, ambulance, ambulance company, reveal patient information, patient, husband