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16-Year Old Indian Hacker Says College Useless

2008-06-17 11:10:42 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...useless alternative for making money Coming from a modest background, the boy wanted to live lavishly with a fine haircut and brand-name clothes, and he found he could achieve that by committing fraud from names and credit card information purchased on international hacking forums His knowledge of the codes and payment gateways is as good as...
 
Tags: college, online payment scam, useless alternative, scam, credit card information, ebay, live lavishly, 16-year, fine haircut
 
 
 
 
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Is fear the only think stopping you from telling your security vendor to take a hike?

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2008-06-20 16:40:47 by HASH0x8b72460 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...useless products which you dont really need." So of course I don't agree with the later statement, not all of those products are useless, but is it really fear that is motivating buyers Fear of what is a good first question. The blog post talks about fear of being hacked, fear of harm to reputation. To that we can add fear of jail or fines...
 
Tags: fear, security, useless products, products, security vendors, useless security products, useless, failure, success
 
 
 
 
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Is fear the only think stopping you from telling your security vendor to take a hike?

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2008-06-20 17:40:47 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...useless products which you don???t really need." So of course I don't agree with the later statement, not all of those products are useless, but is it really fear that is motivating buyers Fear of what is a good first question. The blog post talks about fear of being hacked, fear of harm to reputation. To that we can add fear of jail or fines...
 
Tags: fear, security, useless products, products, security vendors, useless security products, useless, failure, success
 
 
 
 
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The bad guys will use BitLocker, too

2007-07-13 18:03:36 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...useless for you Here's a similar example: some people have advocated that cell phones be disabled in certain public places (movie theaters, tunnels, sports stadiums, and so on) because terrorists might use them to remotely trigger bombs. What a bunch of nonsense this is. Communications tools are far more beneficial to the millions of good...
 
Tags: bad guys, guys, law enforcement, beneficial, bitlocker, destroy beneficial utility, conduct forensic analysis, technology, bypass
 
 
 
 
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Protect your data: everything else is just plumbing

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2007-07-02 20:46:32 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
...useless to you. Its also useless to the friends youve given copies to on those ubiquitous USB drives littering the basement of your desk Learn more about Rights Management Services: http://www.microsoft.com/rms Data security One definition of news is something that happens rarely. Data breaches must no longer be news, then, because they seem...
 
Tags: data security, comrms data security, data, security, confidential information, information, information security, temporary data, data vanishes
 
 
 
 
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K.I.S.S. the castle (analogy) good-bye! Okay, done - now what?

2008-03-30 12:50:51 by Thomas Raschke in Security & Risk Management
 
...useless as an analogy So, while most members of the security academia have given up on the castle some time ago, the question is: Can we provide a simple, yet somewhat holistic concept of modern security and risk management Fact is, that we as security professionals struggle to explain to non-security folks what it is we are doing and why we...
 
Tags: castle, castle metaphor, security, non-security folks, analogy, todays security, castle simply, network security, used-to-death castle analogy
 
 
 
 
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Why [Some] Smart People Hate Logs?

2008-05-08 11:20:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...useless", which is also silly: this is true only if you take a very narrow view of logs (e.g. NIDS alerts),; clearly, everybody is logged by the firewalls, servers, apps, etc. The challenge is not a lack of data, but too much data and not enough time and tools But we are about to "hit paydirt" with this question Tool? Did I just mention...
 
Tags: logs, logs sexy, people, fairly intelligent people, data, index data, darn philosophical posts, experience, exact experience
 
 
 
 
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A tip on using ASP.NET validation controls

2008-09-03 17:16:35 by keith-brown in Security Briefs
 
...useless - it just displayed a bunch of red asterisks! And in places where I'd used the prose, "This field is required", well that was pretty useless as an error message in the summary After a bit of research and experimentation, I discovered that the ValidationSummary control looks at the ErrorMessage property on each validation control in...
 
Tags: shorter message, message, inline error message, validation control element, control, inline, display inline, errormessage, errormessage property
 
 
 
 
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Do you trust the merchants to protect your credit cards?

2007-12-11 09:01:26 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...useless to identity thieves) transaction/approval numbers, rather than very sensitive cc numbers and identifying info. This would significantly reduce the risk of the security breaches, which is the ultimate goal of PCI The opponents of this proposal state that it will be a logistical nightmare and cost millions of dollars. To implement this...
 
Tags: card industry, card, payment card industry, credit card, merchants, credit card companies, provide merchants, merchants change, security