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Encryption - too much of a good (or bad) thing?

2008-02-13 15:17:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...widespread encryption. Further comments on this by Shanmuga and Rich Mogull - who slams this (to put it mildly As technologies become widely used, it itself gets impacted by this usage and so do, in turn, the users - its a two way street. Widespread adoption of cell phones, the net etc caused huge changes in how people live and interact -...
 
Tags: security, security companies worth, widespread encryption, key management challenge, key management challenges, technologies, harsh reality, widespread adoption, people live
 
 
 
 
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Risk Management Lessons from the Mortgage Meltdown

2007-12-14 16:54:17 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
 
...Widespread risk management failures will get legislators attention. Its still early to tell how far fallout from the sub-prime crisis will reach, but the number of consumers affected has already convinced lawmakers to get involved. Weve seen other industry-wide risk management failures heading toward this level of attention with...
 
Tags: risk, risk exposure, risk management decisions, intelligent risk, risk-savvy media, risk management professionals, goldman sachs, goldman sachs performance, risk management information
 
 
 
 
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Matrix Re-loaded

2007-12-16 17:20:22 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...widespread use of blacklisting having the effect of causing hackers to become better . The problem of how to deal with an attack may be a better problem for evolutionary biologists to solve than computer scientists
 
Tags: deceptive security models, matrix, evolutionary biologists, computer scientists, security model, completely, solve, attack, hackosis
 
 
 
 
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India's VSNL helps restore Internet after cable break

2008-02-05 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b4dc14 in Network World on Security
 
Last week, when undersea cable systems were ruptured in the Middle East, off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, it caused widespread Internet and telecom outage across much of the region and in Asia
 
Tags: undersea cable systems, middle east, widespread internet, telecom outage, coast, week, region, alexandria, egypt
 
 
 
 
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The Solution to Your Spyware and Adware Problem

2007-08-01 19:24:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...widespread problem among computer users. This is one of the unwanted side effects of the online world. Just as making the world a smaller place for everybody, the Internet ha brought the proliferation of malicious programs and applications that work its way into individual computers and do their damage in a variety of ways If you are a...
 
Tags: spyware, anti spyware program, anti spyware, adware, adware programs attach, programs, malicious programs, spyware programs, software programs
 
 
 
 
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Squirreling Backdoors Into Distribution Points

2007-12-19 22:16:35 by Chris Eng in Zero in a bit
 
...widespread usage Cryptographic weaknesses aside, a lot of people completely miss the mark with hashes. MD5 or SHA-1 (or any hash function) are not very effective if the only way a user can verify them is on the same website where the download is hosted. If the download point is compromised, chances are the attacker can modify the hashes...
 
Tags: md5 collisions, md5, md5 hashes, distribution, php, execute php code, execute, code, md5 unsafe
 
 
 
 
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Catch not-so-smart hackers to send message to smart hackers

2007-05-10 07:00:33 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
Hackers interact with software/hardware in order to compromise Confidenitality, Integrity and Availability of software/hardware. The adjective "smart" in the phrase "smart hackers" distinguishes those hackers who can compromise Confidentialy, Integrity and Availability in such a way that they leave minimal or no audit trail There are technical...
 
Tags: not-so-smart hackers, hackers, not-so-smart, smart, smart hackers, employee, smart-deviant employee, hackers interact, smart hacker
 
 
 
 
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From Self-Defending Networks to Realtime Compliance

2007-03-28 07:03:03 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...widespread & ostentatious. It is hard for Self-Defending network to identify distinguish a focused & covert traffic from a normal traffic 3. Network is an ecosystem of software and hardware from multitude of vendors. A Self-Defending Network cannot keep a tab on the vulnerabilities across the board 4. Number of vulnerabilities is not finite....
 
Tags: shield network, network, security, provide physical security, vendor phrase, phrase, business, famous mcafee party, business systems
 
 
 
 
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Trend Micro hit by massive Web hack

2008-03-14 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
Security vendor Trend Micro has fallen victim to a widespread Web attack that splashed malicious software onto hundreds of legitimate Web sites in recent days
 
Tags: widespread web attack, malicious software, recent days, web sites, hundreds, victim
 
 
 
 
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End user security psychology, part I: Are small mobile computers less secure than larger mobile computers?

2008-03-27 11:30:35 by Bill Nagel in Security & Risk Management
 
...widespread, it causes problems. I suspect, though, that if this is a common view and not just an artifact of how survey questions are framed , it's also one that will shift on its own in a few years. If the benefit is clear and the system convenient, people will use it and not worry too much about the security (much to our professional...