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Turn off Autorun - yet another reminder

2007-11-30 10:41:00 by Mike Rothman in Security Mike's Blog
 
Tony Bradley makes a great point on the Hack Report site about Autorun . Sure it seems convenient that when you load in a CD, DVD, or USB stick to take some automatic actions. Isn't is great to have the new Springsteen disc start to play once you put it in Actually, not so much. If any of that media is malicious, you've got no defense. If you...
 
Tags: autorun, velvet revolver disc, disc, disc start, hack report site, tony bradley, pretty quickly, security mike, automatic actions
 
 
 
 
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Your Turn At The Bar Again? Security Costs in a Pay Per Drink Cloud

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2008-05-01 20:55:26 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
With in-house IT, you pay your upfront capital costs and maintenance fees and you get whatever compute power you paid for. If you over-specify, you have excess computer power or disk - you are wasting money. If you under-specify, you may be forced to raid your rainy day budget and order new hardware A primary selling point of Cloud Computing is...
 
Tags: security costs, costs, runtime security costs, security runtime costs, security, security tool, security tool inefficiency, security tools plays, plays
 
 
 
 
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Court: warrant needed to turn cell phone into homing beacon

2008-09-12 16:50:02 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
It just got a bit harder for law enforcement agencies to turn your cell phone into a personal tracking device: a federal court yesterday slapped down the Justice Department's appeal of a February ruling that required investigators to seek a probable cause warrant before acquiring historical records of a cell phone users physical movements
 
Tags: cell phone, law enforcement agencies, federal court yesterday, warrant, justice department, bit harder, historical records, appeal, investigators
 
 
 
 
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New surveillance program will turn military satellites on US

2008-10-06 17:50:02 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
An appropriations bill signed by President Bush last week allows the controversial National Applications Office to begin operating a stringently limited version of a program that would turn military spy satellites on the US, sharing imagery with other federal, state, and local government agencies
 
Tags: local government agencies, military spy satellites, program, appropriations bill, president bush, version, week, federal, stringently
 
 
 
 
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Windows Live OneCare has a Broken Light

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2008-01-16 04:27:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
My continuing saga using Windows Live OneCare Like most security products, this one puts an icon in the taskbar. This one glows green if everything is OK, yellow if there's somthing minor wrong, or red if there's something really wrong. For example, it'll glow red while your firewall is disabled By the way, that's one thing I really like about...
 
Tags: onecare, windows, windows live onecare, contact onecare support, onecare dashboard, light, wrong, firewall, replacement firewall
 
 
 
 
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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
 
As we discuss in Blue Box Special Edition #24 , we find ourselves in a bit of a dilemma. With each conference/show that we go to, we accumulate more great recordings of interviews that we do, panel sessions we record and other similar sessions. The goal is to turn these into "Special Edition" podcasts that we can make available in the podcast...
 
Tags: audio production, audio, takes time, takes, time, overly time-sensitive, panel sessions, sessions, mp3 file
 
 
 
 
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Looking for a few good audio production assistants...

2008-03-07 13:59:16 by Dan York in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
As we discuss in Blue Box Special Edition #24 , we find ourselves in a bit of a dilemma. With each conference/show that we go to, we accumulate more great recordings of interviews that we do, panel sessions we record and other similar sessions. The goal is to turn these into "Special Edition" podcasts that we can make available in the podcast...
 
Tags: audio production, audio, takes time, takes, time, overly time-sensitive, panel sessions, sessions, mp3 file
 
 
 
 
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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
 
Posted by Niels Provos, Anti-Malware Team Some of you might have seen this message while searching on Google, and wondered what the reason behind it might be. Instead of search results, Google displays the "We're sorry" message when we detect anomalous queries from your network. As a regular user, it is possible to answer a CAPTCHA - a reverse...
 
Tags: web servers, vulnerable web servers, message, google, worms, google displays, worms pdf, queries, detect anomalous queries
 
 
 
 
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Moto Q9 DoS and Fingerprinting

2008-01-12 18:10:21 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
So I got a new smart phone, which has been highly entertaining when Im stuck in airports, or waiting for meetings or whatever. Its a Moto-Q9 . Boy is it sexy - lots of features, fairly fast. It kinda reminds me of what Windows95 used to be - usable but not fast. It has the new version of Microsofts mobile operating system on there with direct...
 
Tags: accept language, accept, devcap, devcap charset, devcap numsoftkeys, accept charset, devcap screenpixels, cell phone hacker, phone
 
 
 
 
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