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Safety feedback loops and new car safety features

2007-11-07 21:23:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...Witness of course Leopard's new feature that asks you to confirm you want to run something you just downloaded from the Net, and how it fails to run certain programs whose digital signature doesn't match anymore - which is leading to no end of annoyances for Skype and WoW users I was struck by one line in the article I always thought that...
 
Tags: safety, car safety technology, safety features, technology, line, fine line, job, systems, witness
 
 
 
 
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Admins More Powerful Than Hackers

2008-09-16 13:10:29 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...witness testified that Childs posed no danger because the city could lock him out with simple steps Unfortunately, as Ira Winkler at RSA says, its not that simple an administrator with a grudge can cause infinitely more damage than a computer hacker could ever dream of Given that Childs had his job for years, and purposefully kept a wide...
 
Tags: childs, terry childs, network, childs posed, critical network information, simple, simple steps, careful childs held, rogue access
 
 
 
 
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10 things you should be doing to protect your company against email risks

2007-11-02 23:30:15 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...witness abuse of the email system must report this to their supervisor. This will boost productivity and help avoid many of the email risks 3: Install anti-virus software. Even though nowadays almost all companies have virus software scanning files on the server and client machines, not all companies do the same for email. Be safe rather than...
 
Tags: policy, email policy violations, email-policy, email policy rules, rules, email policy, risks, email risks, email
 
 
 
 
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More on the necessity of antivirus software

2007-09-25 17:53:47 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...witness the ongoing success of phishing and 419 scams. And organizations, unless they run highly locked-down environments, often can't know everything their users are doing As I said in the previous post, anti-malware is not useless. It is a necessary element in your suite of defensive technologies to help keep the bad guys at bay. In my post...
 
Tags: antivirus software, computers, client computers, similar self-control, control, involve tradeoffs, previous post, personal computers, post
 
 
 
 
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Show 012 - An Interview with Becky Bace

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2007-03-13 21:13:02 by rmacmich in The Silver Bullet Security Podcast
...Witness - Co-authored with Fred Smith Executive Womens Forum Frank Sinatra The Kinsey Sicks
 
Tags: becky, becky bace, becky discuss, intrusion detection, expert technical witness, notorious kevin mitnick, beckys jimmy hoffa, forensic testimony, testimony
 
 
 
 
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The Random JS Malware Exploitation Kit

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2008-01-15 20:49:56 by HASH0x8be7244 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...witness the filename change on the next request combined with complete disappearance of any .js on the third visit. Here's some press coverage - " Over 10,000 trusted websites infected by new Trojan toolkit The random js attack is performed by dynamic embedding of scripts into a webpage. It provides a random filename that can only be...
 
Tags: random, malware, random attack approach, cgi, local malware locations, cgi-bincert, cgi-binss, cgi-binoptions, cgi-binpstore
 
 
 
 
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The Solution to Your Spyware and Adware Problem

2007-08-01 19:24:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...witness to their ever frustrating and distracting work There are also other malicious programs and applications that you may unknowingly or mistakenly attached or downloaded into your computer. These spyware programs can be a problem in a number of ways. There are spyware programs that can monitor your computer use as well as your surfing...
 
Tags: spyware, anti spyware program, anti spyware, adware, adware programs attach, programs, malicious programs, spyware programs, software programs
 
 
 
 
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Creating and Entrapping Terrorists

2008-03-05 06:25:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...witness is needed for significant financial transactions. Thus, the JTTF reached out for Hossain's imam and the true target of the sting -- Aref
 
Tags: terrorist, modern terrorist, hossain, terrorist conspiracies, deal hossain claims, yassin aref, aref, terrorist plot, stop federal agents
 
 
 
 
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Do you listen to your users?

2008-04-04 21:18:17 by Editor in Security x.0
 
...witness the Club was asked to suggest ways of "tackling the problem" and provided 6 recommendations. What I could not fail to note is that the Committee adopted 5 out of 6 suggestions made by the Club. The following excerpts from the report illustrate this Club: "There must be positive Government guidance pushed to users Committee 8.24. We...
 
Tags: internet, personal internet security, software, content control software, software vendors, users, software liability, club, ilkley computer club
 
 
 
 
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Phishing Tactics Evolving

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2008-04-21 11:18:17 by HASH0x85bed5c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge