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Woule the Do not Track registry work like the Do not call registry?

2008-04-16 14:21:05 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...track registry WASHINGTON (Reuters Two consumer groups asked the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday to create a do not track list that would allow computer users to bar advertisers from collecting information about them
 
Tags: track registry, track, list, call list, federal trade commission, computer users, consumer, bar advertisers, lil
 
 
 
 
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Grayware?

2007-03-07 07:11:45 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...track and/or report certain information back to some external source, these applications are usually installed and run without the permission of the user Grayware categories Adware: Adware is usually embedded in freeware applications that users can download and install at no cost. Adware programs are used to load pop-up browser windows to...
 
Tags: grayware, dangerous grayware applications, joke, joke grayware, p2p grayware, toolbar grayware applications, bho grayware applications, applications, toolbar
 
 
 
 
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The Last HOPE List of Talks posted

2008-06-19 16:10:50 by Myrcurial in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...track for unscheduled talks so if you missed this deadline, you still have a shot in the somewhat smaller unscheduled track room. Look for the unscheduled track sign up sheet at the conference Of course youll be able to find Dave and I there. Wouldnt miss it for the world Oh - and you might want to scroll that list of talks down maybe just to...
 
Tags: talks, hope, list, conference, hope conference, track, additional track, track sign, nyc
 
 
 
 
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The Trouble with Threat Modeling

2007-09-26 19:11:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...track them? Threats arent quite bugsyou can never remove a threat, only mitigate it. So perhaps it didnt make sense to track them like that, but that left threats in a limbo Return on Investment The time invested often didnt seem like it was paying off. Sometimes it really didnt pay off. (David LeBlanc makes this point forcefully in Threat...
 
Tags: threat, threat models, threat model, reasons threat, service threat, term threat, threat effectively, playsound threat model, development process
 
 
 
 
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U.S. Post Office to Enable Wholesale Surveillance of Mail

2008-02-21 06:26:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...track mail through the system : With the new bar code, companies will be able to track mail delivery and know when their customers got a bill, solicitation or product, and the Postal Service will have another way of checking that mail is being delivered on time Companies also will be given a chance to buy data collected by the post office...
 
Tags: mail, sends mail, track mail delivery, class mail, post office, track mail, customers respond, customers, news article
 
 
 
 
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SQL Server - Fact Checking Recent Vulnerability History

2008-03-05 22:53:36 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
 
...track record up through 2003, the SQL team has certainly turned a corner since then and SQL Server 2005 has had one of the best security track records of any commercial database ever Let me close be re-quoting something I highlighted in a post a little over a year ago from David Litchfield in his paper Which database is more secure? Oracle...
 
Tags: server, claim sql server, sql, sql server team, sql vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities, sql server, vulnerability, sql team
 
 
 
 
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Virtualization and security - are we missing the wood for the trees?

2008-03-31 12:05:40 by Paul Stamp in Security & Risk Management
 
...track of what business activities happen where? Isn't the patch and vulnerability management process exponentially more complex when you're instantiating and destroying virtual machines left right and center? How do you determine what risks you're introducing if you move a virtual machine from one place to another? How do we track all this...
 
Tags: security, virtualization, security business model, options virtualization introduces, subtle virtualization threats, business, security services, virtual machine, virtualization center
 
 
 
 
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Countdown to RSA Conference 2008

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2008-04-01 18:54:03 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...track sessions involving Microsoft people I will be attending RSA and am planning to be very active in providing updates and information from the show itself, publishing to this site as well as my own blog at http://blogs.technet.com/security . While of course , you should be subscribing to my blog, you might consider coming back to this...
 
Tags: rsa, rsa conference, rsa activities, conference, rsa central page, microsoft, microsoft rsa, microsoft people, led microsoft
 
 
 
 
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Hannaford Supermarkets

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2008-03-22 12:27:00 by Random InfoSec Guy in Security Coin
...Track data has your name, card number, expiration date and encrypted IPIN among other things. If a sniffer was present at the swipe location, it surely would've got the name. But he clearly states no names were accessed. But what if it was in the scenario described a few posts below - about the ATM authorizations ? If you look at the message...
 
Tags: card, debit card, pci, track data, pci dss, data, hannaford supermarkets, hannaford, pci compliant
 
 
 
 
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Metrics and Audience

2008-04-19 09:52:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...tracking the metrics over time is difficult, since its hard to normalize the defects between products and across time. New attacks are always surfacing, so how do you track the impact of new attack types across time. How do you track the impact of better code scanning/static-analysis to