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The Cipher on the Wall

2007-05-24 00:00:00 by Ari Juels in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
The writing is on the wall for 1024-bit RSA," one trade publication has declared in response to the recent announcement of the successful factoring of a 307-digit (1017-bit) number. As 1024 bits is the length of many RSA keys used in practice today, a short journalistic leap of fancy raises the specter of imperiled retail transactions on the...
 
Tags: wall, 1024-bit rsa, short journalistic leap, recent announcement, retail transactions, wholly unclear, cipher, fancy raises, trade publication
 
 
 
 
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Symantec takes a fling it on the wall approach to NAC

2008-07-29 06:49:15 by HASH0x8cbd290 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
I was reading Tim Greene's column this morning about Symantec 's new on demand web log in for guests as part of their SNAC appliance offering. I have to admit that even I who follows the NAC market and competition pretty closely, get pretty confused with all of the different offerings Symantec has come out with around NAC. Symantec seems to be...
 
Tags: nac, symantec nac appliance, symantec nac, symantec nac server, symantec, offerings symantec, symantec peer-to-peer stuff, nac market, endpoint suite
 
 
 
 
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Symantec takes a fling it on the wall approach to NAC

2008-07-29 07:41:20 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
I was reading Tim Greene's column this morning about Symantec 's new on demand web log in for guests as part of their SNAC appliance offering. I have to admit that even I who follows the NAC market and competition pretty closely, get pretty confused with all of the different offerings Symantec has come out with around NAC. Symantec seems to be...
 
Tags: nac, symantec nac appliance, symantec nac, symantec nac server, symantec, offerings symantec, symantec peer-to-peer stuff, nac market, endpoint suite
 
 
 
 
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Capital Market CEP Fantasy Land

2008-06-23 13:38:13 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
In Tech Spending Hit by Subprime Mess , Jeffery Schwartz says According to Tabb, spending on development is being refocused on projects that can help firms improve their margins and, not surprisingly, do a better job at risk management. As such, investments in capabilities such as algorithmic trading and complex event processing (CEP) are likely...
 
Tags: cep, risk management methodologies, risk management, wall street, now-defunct bear stearns, time, jeffery schwartz implies, jeffery schwartz, subprime
 
 
 
 
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Capital Market CEP Fantasy Land

2008-06-23 13:38:13 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
In Tech Spending Hit by Subprime Mess , Jeffery Schwartz says According to Tabb, spending on development is being refocused on projects that can help firms improve their margins and, not surprisingly, do a better job at risk management. As such, investments in capabilities such as algorithmic trading and complex event processing (CEP) are likely...
 
Tags: cep, risk management methodologies, risk management, wall street, now-defunct bear stearns, time, jeffery schwartz implies, jeffery schwartz, subprime
 
 
 
 
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The Case For Information Security

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2008-03-21 14:08:00 by Random InfoSec Guy in Security Coin
While working as a security consultant, every MDAC attack, every cross-site scripting attack, every SQL injection attack, every custom application vulnerability that was exploited, was treated with such zeal that it made me think the companies that we assessed should be eternally grateful to us for having found those vulnerabilities and saved...
 
Tags: attack, mdac attack, sql injection attack, card, card data, sql injection, million card, loss, pci
 
 
 
 
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Mothers, let your sons grow up to be hedge fund managers

2008-04-16 09:07:25 by HASH0x8b53ca0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
When I was a kid it was fashionable to think that your mother wanted you to grow up and be a doctor, a lawyer or some other such professional. A policeman or fireman was dangerous, a sanitation worker did not have much prestige. By the time I was in college, the smarter kids were going to work on Wall Street, instead of going to medical or law...
 
Tags: billion dollars, billion, dollars, wall street, hedge fund managers, million dollars, hedge fund business, kids, smarter kids
 
 
 
 
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Reporters Tossed Out of BlackHat for Hacking Other Press Reps

2008-08-08 13:02:31 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
Security folks seem to enjoy their jobs making a game of penetration tests, hacking, and in good natured fun, reminding each other when theyre vulnerable online. So at the Black Hat conference this week, wireless network users were warned that if they didnt use an encrypted connection, their data, credentials and passwords would be projected on...
 
Tags: reporters, press, conference, black hat conference, security, security professionals, credentials, actively hack credentials, reporters set
 
 
 
 
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Modelling The Global Financial Meltdown

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2008-10-02 06:33:20 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
Yesterday I received a call from Penny Grosman , Senior Editor, Wall Street & Technology . Penny was interested in my opinion, Will risk management applications be the next killer app for CEP on Wall Street. I enjoyed talking with Penny. She caught up with me leaving a tailors shop in Chiang Mai, so I hope she did not mind hearing my stories of...
 
Tags: simple financial models, financial models, current financial crisis, crisis, simple, technology, wall street, main technology, folks
 
 
 
 
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New DHS Head Understands Security

2008-11-26 12:43:33 by schneier in Schneier on Security