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Network Security It Takes a Village

2008-05-14 13:05:15 by Louis DiMeglio in ScienceLogic
 
...takes a variety of vendors working together For three days, InteropNet is one of the largest hacking targets on the planet. Attacks and threats come from both inside and outside the network. While the external attacks are certainly more malicious in intent, most of the internal ones ended up being due to misconfiguration or just plain...
 
Tags: network, degrade network, temporary network takes, internal devices, enterasys dragon ids, devices, enterasys, network segment, dragon
 
 
 
 
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Santa Clara Takes over Its MetroFi Network

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2008-07-24 11:13:47 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...takes over MetroFi network for meter reading: The city might also expand free public access. Advertisements will be removed as well as logins. This action is a far cry from the last time a firm said they were withdrawing from a wireless business that had spread nodes all over Santa Clara (that would be Metricom's Ricochet network). With...
 
Tags: network, santa clara, santa clara takes, metrofi network, ricochet, ricochet network, public access adapters, proprietary modems, city
 
 
 
 
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Web Based Malware Emphasizes on Anti-Debugging Features

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2008-10-07 02:42:00 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...takes and their order do not trigger protactive protection mechanisms in place binary file size is 25k, the size can be reduced once it's crypted Doesn't take advantage of BITS protocol Doesn't allow an infected host to be infected twice Bypassing NAT and supporting "always-on" connections A simple, easy to configure web based admin...
 
Tags: malware, web based malware, binary file, binary, simple, plain simple, anti, simple junk data, firewall
 
 
 
 
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Misconceptions about outsourcing security

2007-12-13 14:05:54 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...takes stamina and persistence over a fairly long period of time that can sometimes be compressed, but usually with increased risk. Prepare yourself and your teams for the long haul by connecting first to the business strategies of the firm and building from there. It is appropriate to plan for some quick wins but it takes time for the...
 
Tags: security processes, establish security processes, security, processes, security controls, security managers cost, cost, security operations, security services
 
 
 
 
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The top six corporate email risks

2007-10-27 19:27:40 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...takes 5 seconds to view a spam mail, based on an average salary of 25 dollars per hour, this will cost the employer 3 cents per spam mail. If every employee received 25 spam mails per day, spam would cost a company with 100 users no less than 20,000 dollars per year. In addition to spam and personal emails, viruses can also lead to network...
 
Tags: risks, email risks, email, email disclaimer, email communications, companys email system, company network, company, explicit email
 
 
 
 
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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
 
...takes a tongue in cheek approach to his lesson, which is that of the CSO as an addict. CSOs have a tendency to live on the edge. Closer to that of a life of a fire fighter than that of an executive. He tries to break the bad habits by discouraging the old school attitude that the security community tends to have - forgetting the modern day...
 
Tags: book, book mike, technical book, security community, security, security business, mike, mike rothman, mike rothmans
 
 
 
 
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The Trouble with Threat Modeling

2007-09-26 19:11:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...takes to look at each uninteresting issue Other Problems Larry Osterman lays out some other reasons threat modeling is hard in a blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2007/08/30/threat-modeling-once-again.aspx One thing that was realized very early on is that our early efforts at threat modeling were quite ad-hoc. We sat in...
 
Tags: threat, threat models, threat model, reasons threat, service threat, term threat, threat effectively, playsound threat model, development process
 
 
 
 
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C, I .... Hey!!! Where is my 'A'???

2008-02-03 15:28:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...takes some effort to explain why people need to care about 'C' and 'I' (no matter how painfully obvious it is for security folks!), but you never have to explain the 'A' part Yes, if your data is corrupted ('I' violation), then obviously the right data is not available (leads to an 'A' violation), but this is actually far less common today...
 
Tags: security, security folks, security team, discussion, initial discussion, c-i-a, c-i-a risks, cesg gchq tomorrow, colleague michael farnum
 
 
 
 
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My Review of Tiger Team

2007-12-27 00:27:16 by Bill in Grumpy Security Guy
 
...Takes a Thief knockoff with a tech twist. In my book that makes for some good TV. I really enjoy It Takes a Thief which is basically two reformed thieves breaking into peoples houses. I always thought it would be cool to do that with businesses, since really most homes have pretty weak defenses. Clearly it was a great idea since that is what...
 
Tags: tiger team, people, repair people, security stories, pretty, pretty weak defenses, penetration test, physical security, rare auto dealership
 
 
 
 
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Looking for a few good audio production assistants...

2008-03-07 12:59:40 by HASH0x8b438a4 in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
...takes time... if the panel is 45 minutes you've got to have at least that much time (and probably double if you do much editing and keep stopping/starting). Unfortunately time is something neither Jonathan nor I are finding a whole lot of these days. I now have a queue of probably 10 or 12 recordings we've made over the past 6 months that are...
 
Tags: audio production, audio, takes time, takes, time, overly time-sensitive, panel sessions, sessions, mp3 file