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Thwarting a large-scale phishing attack

2007-06-11 11:35:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...volumes, phishers are beginning to move on to new targets Things you can do to help end phishing and Internet fraud Learn to recognize and avoid phishing. The Anti-Phishing Working Group has a good list of recommendations Update your software regularly and run an anti-virus program. If a cyber-criminal gains control of your computer...
 
Tags: myspace, myspace profiles, real myspace content, myspace account, attack, dummy myspace account, phishers move, phishers, lower-value sites
 
 
 
 
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A TrustedSource for Threats Intell Data

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2007-11-27 17:56:05 by HASH0x89f3234 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...volumes, patterns and trends, and enabling it to rapidly identify deviations from the norm on a minute-by-minute basis I've already mentioned the radical perspective of integrating all the publicly known IPs with bad reputation, and sort of ignoring their online activities in order to prevent common problems such as click fraud for...
 
Tags: user, user starts, instructs security devices, secure, threat intell service, internet driver, security events systems, perspective, radical perspective
 
 
 
 
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Whats next in Data Leakage Prevention - Keeping your barrels out of the water

2008-01-07 00:35:00 by Hugh Docherty in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...volumes of unstructured data The best way to protect your data is to manage it. You can spend a lot of time and energy trying to stop the barrels from going over the falls or you can keep the barrels out of the water in the first place by controlling access and enforcing usage polices Looking for more information about what DLP solutions...
 
Tags: data leakage prevention, data leakage, data, sensitive data resides, sensitive, data-centric approach, dlp, dlp vendors, electronic data
 
 
 
 
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Vulnerability Management - Yeah Baby, Groovy!

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2008-03-21 14:02:49 by HASH0x8b46e44 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...volumes Just last week at the Infosec World conference I had remarked to some folks that walking the show floor I did not see one vendor using the term vulnerability management in their signage. Even some companies that are plainly in the VM space such a nCircle and Qualys, are using risk management and similar terms to describe what they do....
 
Tags: vulnerability management, term vulnerability management, vulnerability management tools, austin powers moment, article, infosec world conference, speaks volumes, trendy anymore, virtual machines
 
 
 
 
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NSA's Domestic Spying

2008-03-26 06:02:18 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...volumes of records of domestic emails and Internet searches as well as bank transfers, credit-card transactions, travel and telephone records. The NSA receives this so-called "transactional" data from other agencies or private companies, and its sophisticated software programs analyze the various transactions for suspicious patterns. Then...
 
Tags: nsa, data haul, haul, information, transactional information, data, nsa receives, mass data, terrorism information awareness
 
 
 
 
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The psychology of risk perception

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2007-02-24 10:04:37 by Perry Carpenter in Security Renaissance
...volumes Conventional Wisdom About People and Risk Perception This chart just scratches the surface of the overall content in his article. I encourage you to check it out We see examples of this in our lives and in the media everyday. One of the things that we have to guard against, as security professionals, is exploiting this to our...
 
Tags: risk perception, risk, bruce, article, bruce schneier kick, examine risk, ultimately gain trust, peoples irrational fears, speaks volumes
 
 
 
 
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Vulnerability Management - Yeah Baby, Groovy!

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2008-03-21 15:02:49 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...volumes Just last week at the Infosec World conference I had remarked to some folks that walking the show floor I did not see one vendor using the term vulnerability management in their signage. Even some companies that are plainly in the VM space such a nCircle and Qualys, are using risk management and similar terms to describe what they do....
 
Tags: vulnerability management, term vulnerability management, vulnerability management tools, austin powers moment, article, infosec world conference, speaks volumes, trendy anymore, virtual machines
 
 
 
 
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Starbucks Leadership Shake Up Signals In-Store Direction

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2008-04-24 15:01:48 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...volumes. Chris Bruzzo, the company's chief technology office, will add the entertainment group's functions to his current purview. This doesn't surprise me after speaking with Bruzzo two months when the AT&T deal was announced. (A few details from that talk When I talked to Bruzzo, he was clearly focused on how to improve the culture of the...
 
Tags: starbucks, entertainment, starbucks entertainment senior, att, att deal, tie, starbucks att markets, starbucks tie-in, starbucks idea
 
 
 
 
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More on functional encryption and two-level keys

2008-05-06 14:01:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...volumes for specific information The key used here is a personal key which contains attributes of a person which is used to unlock the document... Seems intriguing, but I am not sure how multiple people (or even groups such as HR) can be given access to a document based on such keys... Would like to understand this a bit more
 
Tags: functional encryption, key, functional encryption system, personal key, keys, document, document based, gain access, access