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The reason behind the "We're sorry..." message

2007-07-09 11:54:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...trigger the sorry message. Often it's due to infected computers or DSL routers that proxy search traffic through your network - this may be at home or even at a workplace where one or more computers might be infected. Overly aggressive SEO ranking tools may trigger this message, too. In other cases, we have seen self-propagating worms that...
 
Tags: web servers, vulnerable web servers, message, google, worms, google displays, worms pdf, queries, detect anomalous queries
 
 
 
 
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Security Perception: Fear vs Anger

2008-03-23 12:42:05 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...triggered a sense of fear, and some coverage that triggered a sense of anger. We randomly assigned participants from around the country to be exposed to one of those two conditions -- media reports that were known to trigger fear or reports that were known to trigger anger. Next, we asked participants to predict how much risk, if any, they...
 
Tags: potential future attacks, future attacks, future, future terrorist attacks, perceive future risks, attacks, worlds future, clip subsequently, subsequently
 
 
 
 
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IPS - is it soup yet? Mike Chapple says yes and no

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2008-05-13 20:25:13 by HASH0x84725a8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...trigger a minimum amount of rules is key. I have seen rule sets where one kind of attack can trigger multiple signatures. This will fire more blocks than necessary and burden your system for no reason. Don't overlap your rule sets if you are using Snort Consider using a fail-open device . In line devices are a single point of failure. If your...
 
Tags: ips, line devices, devices, ips appliances, ips devices, mike, rules set, rules, mike chapple
 
 
 
 
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On CEP Maturity and the Gartner Hype Cycle

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2008-06-02 03:19:11 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
...Trigger phase than anywhere else in the hype cycle. CEP has not yet reached the Peak of Inflated Expectations, but is inching closer and closer In addition, as a correlating reference point, if you look at a recent Gartner Hype Cycle that covers EDA , for example, you will find that EDA (Event Driven Architucture) isata similarphase, the...
 
Tags: gartner hype cycle, hype cycle, technology trigger phase, cep, covers eda, mark palmers rebuttal, closer, eda, clearer image
 
 
 
 
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Weird MS SQL Server bug

2008-05-26 09:38:24 by Slavik in Musings on Database Security
 
A somewhat technical post on MS SQL Server encrypted triggers. It turns out that MS SQL Server 2005 has an issue with encrypted triggers in the model database. Weve created an encrypted database level trigger on DDL operations in all databases including the model database so that when a new database is created the trigger will
 
Tags: database, database level trigger, sql server, model database, trigger, triggers, technical post, ddl operations, databases
 
 
 
 
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On Measuring a Markets Maturity

2008-07-20 12:10:01 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...Trigger The first phase of a hype cycle is the technology trigger or breakthrough, product launch or other event that generates significant press and interest Peak of Inflated Expectations In the next phase, a frenzy of publicity typically generates over-enthusiasm and unrealistic expectations. There may be some successful applications of a...
 
Tags: hype cycles aim, hype cycles, hype, gartner hype cycle, hype cycle, maturity, markets maturity, cep blogwe ground, cep
 
 
 
 
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The reason behind the "We're sorry..." message

2007-07-09 11:54:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...trigger the sorry message. Often it's due to infected computers or DSL routers that proxy search traffic through your network - this may be at home or even at a workplace where one or more computers might be infected. Overly aggressive SEO ranking tools may trigger this message, too. In other cases, we have seen self-propagating worms that...
 
Tags: web servers, vulnerable web servers, message, google, worms, google displays, worms pdf, queries, detect anomalous queries
 
 
 
 
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Automating web application security testing

2007-07-16 11:40:00 by Panayiotis Mavrommatis in Google Online Security Blog
 
...triggered when a victim visits the website at some point in the future, such as through improperly sanitized blog comments and guestbook entries, which facilitates stored XSS Reflected XSS - An application that echoes improperly sanitized user input received as query parameters is vulnerable to reflected XSS. With a vulnerable application,...
 
Tags: web application, application, input, input parameters, accepts user input, xss, xss vulnerabilities, security, security team check
 
 
 
 
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Information flow tracing and software testing

2007-09-17 09:32:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...trigger them, but not all fuzz testing frameworks have to be this complicated. Fuzz testing originally relied on purely random data, ignorant of specific threats and known dangerous input. Today, this approach is often overlooked in favor of more complicated techniques. Early sanity checks in applications looking for something as a simple as...
 
Tags: input, flayer marks, initial input samples, flayer, fuzz, fuzz testers require, checks, dynamic analysis framework, sanity checks