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Internal Network Threat Encyclopedia

2008-08-21 15:39:04 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...straight-up remote control programs. The top 5 internal threats , according to the encyclopedia, includes (today) Google Talk, Skype and MySpace. These applications are well known for sure, but the encyclopedia entries are a handy collection of the problems each can cause. It could be useful if you need to explain why you're setting rules...
 
Tags: encyclopedia, internal threat encyclopedia, internal threats, encyclopedia entries, handy collection, google talk, timbuktu, laplink, rules
 
 
 
 
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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
...straight path, or mode, through the cable. Because of this, singlemode offers higher throughput and longer distance, but the light equipment and connectors are much more finely-tuned. Which, of course, means singlemode is much more expensive When youre adding or surveying multimode fiber, you should know what core size youre working with. The...
 
Tags: cables, simplex fiber cables, fiber, connectors, fiber cables, short fiber runs, short, single-mode, single-mode fiber
 
 
 
 
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Polyphasic Sleep

2007-03-20 21:04:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...straight back to work. In other words I took a 3 hour nap at night and two 90 minute naps during the day. I never remember being tired when I was on those regiments, but I do remember being highly productive Once the project was over I would immediately revert back to my monophasic ways, happy to be done with whatever project I was working...
 
Tags: polyphasic, develop polyphasic behaviors, naps, polyphasic sleepers, minute naps, nature exhibit polyphasic, monophasic world, monophasic, caffeine
 
 
 
 
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Corporate Spying

2008-01-16 12:21:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...straight from the C.I.A. playbook. In the constant search for the slightest edge, some hedge funds and investment companies have turned to a handful of private-investigation firms for a tactic that seems to fall between science and voodoo. Called tactical behavior assessment, it relies on dozens of verbal and nonverbal cues to determine...
 
Tags: agents, intelligence agents, wal-mart, off-duty police officers, officers, wal-mart employee fired, cell-phone calls, phone calls, obtain
 
 
 
 
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Process Doubling

2008-01-27 22:44:57 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...straight forward, but what if the situation was slightly different. What if there was egress filtering and I ended up rooting a web server? And in this situation lets pretend that it was set up so that all thats allowed out is port 80 and 443. What now? I cant kill the web server, or people will certainly notice, and I cant tunnel out on any...
 
Tags: web server, fairly complex set, set, fairly straight forward, egress, fairly easy, fairly common occurrence, easy, firewall egress
 
 
 
 
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Is PCI Really Working? 2007 Worst Year Yet

2007-12-31 03:32:31 by Bill in Grumpy Security Guy
 
...straight out of a William S. Burroughs book. the worst part is Top 10 Security Stories of 2007 This is my list of the Top 10 security stories of 2007. Since I am a web application security guy th Windows Machines are Bluescreened in Leopard This is awesome! Browsing networks with Windows machines on them show the Windows boxes as old CRT m 5...
 
Tags: worst, security stories, pci, windows machines, nice stuff, grumpy security guy, nice, secure, install malware
 
 
 
 
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A rose by any other name

2008-02-21 00:10:25 by HASH0x8473364 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...straight and I will defer to Mike F Also to note Mike Rothman refers to another crystal ball blog article , this one by Thomas and Nate over at Matasano. With my history of mixing it up with Thomas, I don't want to come off as sour grapes on Thomas's outlook for NAC. But I think in a classic case of when you are a hammer, everything looks...
 
Tags: nac systems, nac, nac market, nac framework, nac appliances, nac appliance, nac ecosystem, nac customers, nac standards
 
 
 
 
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A rose by any other name

2008-02-21 01:10:07 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...straight and I will defer to Mike F Also to note Mike Rothman refers to another crystal ball blog article , this one by Thomas and Nate over at Matasano. With my history of mixing it up with Thomas, I don't want to come off as sour grapes on Thomas's outlook for NAC. But I think in a classic case of when you are a hammer, everything looks...
 
Tags: nac systems, nac, nac market, nac framework, nac appliances, nac appliance, nac ecosystem, nac customers, nac standards
 
 
 
 
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SDL and Web 2.0

2008-02-28 22:26:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...straight DHTML. Some Rich Internet Application (RIA) frameworks, notably Adobes Flash and Microsofts Silverlight , offer mechanisms to bypass the Same Origin Policy. For Flash, this mechanism is an XML file (crossdomain.xml) hosted on the domain root that lists all the external domains that should be granted access to the Flash movie. For...
 
Tags: web, site, chriss web site, mashups, web mashups, site cookies, persistent cross-site, cookies, benefit anyones web
 
 
 
 
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Worst Security I Have Seen in a Long Time

2008-03-07 22:28:51 by Bill in Grumpy Security Guy
 
...straight out of a William S. Burroughs book. the worst part is Security Consultant Hacks: Size Matters This is part of my occasional series on security consultants and how best to employ them. Security c Top 10 Underground Security Resources These are the crazy people in your security neighborhood - Part 1 Titan Rain Post from: Grumpy...
 
Tags: security, worst security, grumpy security guy, security consultants, worst, security neighborhood, underground security resources, security consultant hacks, time