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More thoughts on vulnerability

2008-04-07 13:34:01 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is
 
...character password made up of alpha and numeric characters A six-character password made up solely of alphabetic characters A four-character PIN made up solely of numbers A fourteen-character password made up of alpha, numeric, and special characters Actually, there are a couple of rational answers 1) it depends, and 2) all of them, to some...
 
Tags: capable threat agent, threat agent, capable, password, vulnerability, six-character password, vulnerable, -character password, numeric
 
 
 
 
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Passport Canada web site suffers serious breach

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2007-12-05 11:51:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...character in the URL provided by Passport Canada, he could access the passport application information of other people who had used the site. Passport Canada officials confirmed the security flaw and breach on Tuesday, December 4th Reference URL Reuters Canada News Story 680News.com News Story The Globe and Mail News Story The Register News...
 
Tags: passport canada, information, personal information, passport application information, application, breach, passport application site, passport canada spokesman, significant security breaches
 
 
 
 
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The top 10 spam characteristics (#6-10)

2006-09-27 06:01:03 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...characteristics and how they can be used to detect spam. Remember that these spam characteristics must not be used in isolation, since some characteristics can also be present in legitimate mails. Therefore it is important to use a weighting system that provides an individual score for each spam characteristic. If a message includes several...
 
Tags: spam, spam characteristics, spam characteristic, todays spam mails, mails, email address, complete email address, detect spam, spam messages include
 
 
 
 
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Zango And The Batman Online Videogame

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2008-09-03 11:00:00 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...character to destroying villans, it has it all. Download and play this amazing game now, all for free! I'm sure you'll be playing for hours on end, it's that much fun Level Up Your Character Explore a Huge Vast World Play Online With Your Friends Hundreds of Quests To Finish Perfect Battle System So start your Batman adventure today!...
 
Tags: batman, batman online, batman game, online batman game, batman online game, batman adventure, batman begins videogame, batman-centric, batman-style justice
 
 
 
 
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Book Review: The Pragmatic CSO

2008-01-02 15:24:45 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...character, Mike said that his tests came back almost completely clean (because they almost never are, unless you really dont know what youre doing). But then, almost at the end of the book he pulled it out for me. He really ripped into why vulnerability assessments are critical to understanding your security and then the main character, Mike...
 
Tags: book, book mike, technical book, security community, security, security business, mike, mike rothman, mike rothmans
 
 
 
 
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Cracking passwords on a PlayStation

2007-12-03 16:37:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
 
...character passwords in hours. Typically, previous attempts to crack such passwords took days to get the same result I found this story via Kim's blog , where he points out that using password-based encryption is dangerous. What he's referring to is using encryption where the key is derived from a password Lots of consumer-oriented encryption...
 
Tags: password, character password, key, password database, keyspace, 256-bit aes key, 40-bit keyspace, passwords, encryption
 
 
 
 
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Inane security questions

2008-02-18 23:07:19 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...characters long and contain at least 1 numeric or non-alphabetic character). So far so good If I forget this password, I will be required to answer two security questions, which I get to choose from a little shortlist. Theyve eschewed mothers maiden name, but the system designer seems to have copied them from Bebo or Disneys Mickey Mouse...
 
Tags: questions, security questions, favourite, favourite entertainer, non-alphabetic character, password, favourite teacher, online system, main childhood phone
 
 
 
 
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The Importance of Trust

2008-09-16 19:46:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...characteristics are the building blocks upon which reputations are raised. It is of the utmost importance in any walk of life to "live by your word", but in the security profession - especially where the protecting of life is concerned, it is everything I attended National Stadium last night and watched the Washington Nationals beat the New...
 
Tags: importance, business, business owner, integrity, involves integrity, utmost importance, competence, security profession, deaf ears
 
 
 
 
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Spammers defeat 'captcha' technology

2007-07-11 08:00:00 by Editor in IT Compliance
 
Optical character recognition defeats security measure that requires new users to identify twisted letters
 
Tags: letters, requires, users
 
 
 
 
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Diminutive XSS Worm Replication Contest

2008-01-04 16:28:08 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...character matters digi7al64 has already posted a sample piece of code, setting the baseline. His code is an impressively small 292 characters. Theres no prize here, however, I will definitely be talking about the winners code. The winner will be announced on the 10th after all submissions are in and posted. Visit the thread for more details....
 
Tags: xss worm, propagation, worm propagation issues, code, diminutive, live worm code, xss worm propagation, winners code, diminutive perl contests