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7 Seminal Security Books Every Security Wannabe Should Read

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2008-03-17 17:49:28 by Craig Balding in Security Wannabe
...Wannabe? These are my Seminal 7 Photo Credit: tanakawho The Cuckoos Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage The book that ignited my passion for IT security. Clifford Stoll stalks the wily hacker Markus Hess in a true edge of the seat thriller . Computer security books boring? Then you havent read this one. Be prepared to...
 
Tags: books, security books, software, software security assessment, security, thick books, security wannabe, software vulnerability research, software security
 
 
 
 
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Breaking Into The IT Security Industry For Fun And Profit

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2008-03-13 15:24:50 by Craig Balding in Security Wannabe
...Wannabe Well..thats not entirely true The truth is that you never really stop being a security wannabe - no matter how others perceive you. Its simply that if you keep moving forward, you become less of a wannabe than the people moving slower than you In the course of my security journey I have been privileged to meet and work with some of...
 
Tags: security, security security wannabe, security wannabe, wannabe, digital security sounds, security industry, security wannabewelcome home, security people, security journey
 
 
 
 
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A Botnet Master's To-Do List

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2008-04-26 14:36:23 by HASH0x8ae3c28 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...wannabe botnet masters whose lack of understanding of the different between project management and "to-do list organization", and of course, setting their directory permissions right, leads us to a a first-hand malware bot's to-do list courtesy of the coder itself. Here's the to-do list itself, with all the static and variable features ...
 
Tags: botnet, commodity malware bots, malware bots, to-do list, wannabe botnet masters, malware, botnet masters, malware botnets, anti malware
 
 
 
 
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Phishing kit pits wannabe scammers vs. pro fraudsters

2008-01-23 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b39718 in Network World on Security
 
In a twist, security researchers have discovered a group of hackers who are exploiting a new category of victims -- aspiring Internet scammers
 
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Terror on the Internet - Conflict of Interest

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2008-03-18 19:58:23 by HASH0x8471fd8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Wannabe Jihadists Mujahideen Secrets Encryption Tool An Analysis of the Technical Mujahid Issue One An Analysis of the Technical Mujahid Issue Two Terrorist Groups' Brand Identities A List of Terrorists' Blogs Jihadists' Anonymous Internet Surfing Preferences Samping Jihadist IPs Cyber Jihadists' and TOR A Cyber Jihadist DoS Tool GIMF Now...
 
Tags: cyber jihadist, cyber jihadist communities, novice cyber jihadists, jihadists, cyber jihadist forums, cyber jihadist sites, attract cyber jihadists, internet, cyber jihadists
 
 
 
 
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Interview with Ross Anderson: Security Engineering 2.0

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2008-04-07 07:52:18 by Craig Balding in Security Wannabe
...Wannabe caught up with him to find out more about Security Engineering 2.0. We managed to cover a lot of ground in 8 questions more
 
Tags: security, ross anderson, security wannabe, ross, information security professional, security community, entire book, book, must-read book
 
 
 
 
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The War on Photography

2008-06-05 06:44:54 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...wannabe terrorists, don't seem to photograph anything, why is it such pervasive conventional wisdom that terrorists photograph their targets? Why are our fears so great that we have no choice but to be suspicious of any photographer Because it's a movie-plot threat A movie-plot threat is a specific threat, vivid in our minds like the plot of...
 
Tags: movie, movie-plot security, terrorists, imagine terrorists, terrorists bomb, movie-plot terrorists, dix terrorists, movie-plot threats uniquely, wannabe terrorists
 
 
 
 
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The Zeus Crimeware Kit Vulnerable to Remotely Exploitable Flaw

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2008-06-18 17:45:15 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...wannabe cyber criminals by providing them with backdoored web malware exploitation kits and phishing pages, you have cyber criminals looking for ways to obtain access to the most popular exploitation kits and bankers malware C&Cs by finding vulnerabilities within them Apparently, Zeus, the crimeware kit which I discussed in a previous post,...
 
Tags: zeus, russian business network, crimeware kit, zeus users, vulnerability, vulnerability research, kit, security community, security community starts
 
 
 
 
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Haven't Seen This Before...

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2008-06-24 15:30:12 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...wannabe hackers - kids, mostly - have the idea to set up a forum, then go running to the first free forum provider they can think of. In my experience, just because the host is free doesn't mean they'll automatically be a host that tolerates hackers, spammers and all the other nefarious characters out there (in fact, it was a free host that...
 
Tags: free host, free, free forums, host, free forum provider, forum, forum providers, wannabe hackers, hackers