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Cast your vote for the best Firewall

2008-10-12 23:34:42 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
over at LifeHacker theres some great info on which is the best Firewall. You can also vote for your fav clipped from lifehacker.com Five Best Windows Firewalls Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite Windows firewall , and today were back with the five most popular answers. Keep reading for a closer look at the five best...
 
Tags: firewall, favorite windows firewall, favorite, windows firewalls, vote, cast, lifehacker, popular answers, info
 
 
 
 
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Setting file ACLs with PowerShell part 4

2007-11-29 09:34:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
...cast exception This syntax allows you to create type-constrained variables. Now when I assign an object to $b, PowerShell will first try to cast that object to System.Int32 (you could also have used "int", by the way). The last line of code above will throw an invalid cast exception. This is a very useful feature, allowing you to get some...
 
Tags: values, invalid enumeration values, enumeration, enumeration values, new-object security, object, powershell, invalid cast exception, cast
 
 
 
 
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Heroes, the (Fall TV) Legacy

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2007-09-25 00:00:26 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...cast Lindsay Wagner as the "Goldman" role Smallville - Thursday 8pm / CW - Okay, it predates Heroes and probably paved the way for Heroes in the first place Moonlight - Friday 9pm / CBS - Detective gets bitten by his Vampire bride 60 years ago, now fighting the good fight as undead detective Mick St. John At the same time, I'd like to have a...
 
Tags: heroes, heroes success, legacy, detective, undead detective mick, touch, nbc, time, touch sends
 
 
 
 
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More trustworthy election systems via SDL?

2008-02-04 23:34:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...cast votes and to inject new votes. Poll workers can connect to JBCs or eScans over the management interfaces and perform back-office functions such as modifying the device software. The impact of this is that a malicious voter could potentially take over one or more eSlates in a precinct and a malicious poll worker could potentially take...
 
Tags: machine security concerns, security concerns, election systems, election, security, security researchers, election systems margin, margin, election management system
 
 
 
 
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Are Microsoft's obits premature?

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2008-02-14 13:26:10 by HASH0x8b3bd70 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...cast Microsoft as the underdog here? Have their fortunes sunk so low that we think they are lost? I think not. A company with the assets of Microsoft will continue to make their presence felt. Just as the US could not remain forever as the only super power and has to play in an increasingly global community, Microsoft will play in a global...
 
Tags: microsoft, microsoft live, cast microsoft, global community, increasingly global community, evil empires, child, saas, pure saas
 
 
 
 
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Are Microsoft's obits premature?

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2008-02-14 14:25:59 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...cast Microsoft as the underdog here? Have their fortunes sunk so low that we think they are lost? I think not. A company with the assets of Microsoft will continue to make their presence felt. Just as the US could not remain forever as the only super power and has to play in an increasingly global community, Microsoft will play in a global...
 
Tags: microsoft, microsoft live, cast microsoft, global community, increasingly global community, evil empires, child, saas, pure saas
 
 
 
 
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Creating and Entrapping Terrorists

2008-03-05 06:25:43 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...cast doubt on the seriousness of the underlying case. The "Albany Pizza" case provides a stark example. Known as a "sting case," the investigation began in June 2003 when U.S. soldiers raided an "enemy camp" in Iraq and seized a notebook containing the name of an imam in Albany -- one Yassin Aref. To snare Aref, the JTTF dispatched a...
 
Tags: terrorist, modern terrorist, hossain, terrorist conspiracies, deal hossain claims, yassin aref, aref, terrorist plot, stop federal agents
 
 
 
 
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A false accusation of hacking

2008-04-02 17:03:46 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...cast fault more in one place than another. In particular, its clearly nonsense to suggest that people should just know that emails like this are fraudulent. If phishing emails didnt mislead a great many people, then theyd evolve until they did
 
Tags: paypal, paypal account, account, account holder, email, people, original email, gmail account, people receive
 
 
 
 
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The Thin Blue Line

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2007-09-05 12:47:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
...cast your scorn upon The one you bring your troubles to All these people I've been for you The one you ask to stand apart The one you feel should have no heart The one you call "The Officer in Blue But I'm just a person, just like you And through the years I've come to see That I am not always what you ask of me So, take this badge ... take...
 
Tags: continue, police continue, police, reservist police officer, officer, person die, person, blue, police officers
 
 
 
 
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Banning function calls, assurance, and retrofitting

2008-03-18 19:48:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...cast such as scanf, strcpy, strcat, etc. On top of that though they add some things that didn't make Microsoft's list ; for example, rand I don't technically have a problem with including rand() in the list of things to be extremely careful about, but whereas it is nearly impossible to guarantee that someone has used strcpy() right, rand()...
 
Tags: code review experience, code, security sensitive context, context, security critical context, unsafe context, static analyzer,