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Skype Clarifies: The Bug Has Been Fixed

2007-08-22 12:54:28 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...tuned to be smarter about how similar situations should be handled. Once we found the algorithmic fix to ensure continued operation in the face of high numbers of client reboots, the efforts focused squarely on stabilising the P2P core. The fix means that we've tuned Skype's P2P core so that it can cope with simultaneous P2P network load and...
 
Tags: skype, tuned skype, p2p core, core, bug, similar situations, similar, fix, tuned
 
 
 
 
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Skype Clarifies: The Bug Has Been Fixed

2007-08-22 12:54:28 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...tuned to be smarter about how similar situations should be handled. Once we found the algorithmic fix to ensure continued operation in the face of high numbers of client reboots, the efforts focused squarely on stabilising the P2P core. The fix means that we've tuned Skype's P2P core so that it can cope with simultaneous P2P network load and...
 
Tags: skype, tuned skype, p2p core, core, bug, similar situations, similar, fix, tuned
 
 
 
 
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Got Entropy ?

2008-04-02 02:55:47 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
 
...tuned Design of the Got Entropy Service Many RNGs (such as the one included in Linux, as well as OpenSSLs) allow the addition of entropy from outside sources. So I started looking to Entropy sources I could use to bolster the RNGs on my virtual hosts (and other uses). While I was looking into this, it occurred to me that I had an unused TV...
 
Tags: entropy, random, 32-byte random, byte, hardware random, entropy sources, sequence, random sequence, pull entropy
 
 
 
 
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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
...tuned . We have been recommending this with our Strata Guard IDS/IPS for years. In fact we have a tuning wizard which gives you a real leg up in getting started with your tuning. In essence though this means that you start off not blocking anything,and only after seeing what is really happening on your network do you selectively start...
 
Tags: ips, line devices, devices, ips appliances, ips devices, mike, rules set, rules, mike chapple
 
 
 
 
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NY STAR: An accident waiting to happen

2006-03-02 22:37:31 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
...tuned to protecting private personal information. For a recent example of a public record agency handling private data, see the story of how the Suffolk County (NY) clerks normal processes put a few thousand SSNs in the public record [via Emergent Chaos Perhaps all these violations of dont ask for information you dont need and dont store...
 
Tags: information, store information, income information, personal information, personal financial information, public, public record agency, public information, assessors
 
 
 
 
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CEP/EP Reference Customers 2005-2007

2007-12-29 16:13:12 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
On November 8th 2007, after compiling a list of CEP/EP reference customers fromthe open literature and public press releases, I issued a call for CEP reference customers in the Yahoo! CEP-Interest Group and on the professional networking site LinkedIn . During the past 7 weeksI provided an opportunity forall concernedto view and respond tomy...
 
Tags: cep, reference, cep blog event, cep reference customers, event, mention complex event, total cepep reference, criteria, sales criteria
 
 
 
 
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Setting file ACLs with PowerShell part 4

2007-11-29 09:34:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
In part 3 , I walked through the following line of code newRule = New-Object Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule "keith", Modify, Allow I pointed out how the "Modify" was automatically converted into an enumeration value, promising that I'd talk more about enumerations later. Well, this value comes from the...
 
Tags: values, invalid enumeration values, enumeration, enumeration values, new-object security, object, powershell, invalid cast exception, cast
 
 
 
 
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Spreading Malware Around the Christmas Tree

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2007-12-24 18:33:57 by HASH0x896b164 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...tuned, AV vendors will reach another milestone on the number of malware variants detected, despite that compared to the real , massive Storm Worm campaign this one is fairly easy to prevent on a large scale Related info - SANS , ASERT , TEMERC , DISOG
 
Tags: contact, contact postal code, technical contact, server, contact organization, contact city, contact country, contact street1, contact phone
 
 
 
 
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Yet another benefit of executive support for SDL...

2007-11-15 23:04:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...tuned. We are winding down for the Thanksgiving holiday so we will not be posting next week. Enjoy your Turkey Day
 
Tags: community, security researcher community, security, security tools, security efforts, security tool development, windows security assurance, security science team, team