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Localizing Cybercrime - Cultural Diversity on Demand

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2008-02-21 17:06:11 by HASH0x8b1e62c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Cultural diversity on demand is something I anticipated as a future malware trend two years ago - " Localization as a concept will attract the coders attention By localization of malware, I mean social engineering attacks, use of spelling and grammar free native language catches, IP Geolocation, in both when it comes to future or current...
 
Tags: future, future malware trend, trend, malware, malware authors, demand, russian malware, services, demand translation services
 
 
 
 
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Risk and Culture

2008-05-21 05:19:59 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School. Abstract Cultural Cognition refers to the disposition to conform one's beliefs about societal risks to one's preferences for how society should be organized. Based on surveys and experiments involving some 5,000 Americans, the Second National Risk and Culture Study presents empirical evidence of...
 
Tags: risk, values, cultural values, hold hierarchical, hold, egalitarian values, hold individualist values, diverse values, national risk
 
 
 
 
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Security is bigger than finding and fixing bugs

2008-08-14 20:09:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...cultural value'. The programme includes mandatory security training for developers, a set of in-house security libraries, and code reviews both by Google developers and outside security researchers I think it is great that Google has a security program they are willing to talk about and I could not agree more with the security as a cultural...
 
Tags: security, security researchers, security vulnerabilities, computer security experts, googles security secrets, in-house security libraries, security program, microsoft products, sdl
 
 
 
 
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Want Great Technology? Buy TIBCO (TIBX)

2008-01-18 11:42:27 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...cultural perspective, the TIBCO culture and the Sun culture are the best match. I dont think that the SAP or IBM cultures are very suitable for TIBCO employess. So, if you toss in the cultural perspective, Sun, cash rich and in acquisition mode, seems the most likely candidate to buy TIBCO
 
Tags: tibco, tibco spends, ibm buys tibco, tibco culture, tibco employess, oracle buys tibco, sun buys tibco, challenge oracle, oracle
 
 
 
 
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Another twist to keep AV vendors on their toes

2008-02-21 08:17:49 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
Malware developers have been switching to targeted attacks for some time. This usually consists of going after a specific organization or individuals associated with that organization (e.g. customers and employees). However, this can leave out a large number of user groups--user groups with similar cultural interests
 
Tags: specific organization, organization, similar cultural, malware developers, user, attacks, consists, employees, time
 
 
 
 
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Censorship for the rest of us

2008-02-25 11:08:04 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
Actions like those taken by Musharraf must be condemned by the global community as nothing less than Internet terrorism. Given the opportunity, I believe other oppressive regimes (e.g. China and Russia) will see advantages in disrupting the free flow of electronic information. We know that China already blocks citizen access to information...
 
Tags: internet terrorism, electronic information, economic objectives, global community, information contrary, oppressive regimes, free flow, china, russia
 
 
 
 
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Embedding Malicious IFRAMEs Through Stolen FTP Accounts

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2008-03-03 10:14:01 by HASH0x8b0b9bc in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Cultural Diversity on Demand On the other side of the universe The concept of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is nothing new, but this is the first time anyone has organized the purchase of FTP login credentials , with additional tools available to help a buyer confirm he's making a smart purchase on the other side of the universe on...
 
Tags: ftp accounts, ftp, iframes, malicious iframes, web service, service, ftp account credentials, demand service, data
 
 
 
 
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A Localized Bankers Malware Campaign

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2008-03-25 14:59:06 by HASH0x8b6136c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...cultural diversity on demand for malicious malware, spam and phishing purposes . However, in this case it's more important to emphasize on the targeted nature of the campaign , and the use of a Russian free web space provider as a hosting provider for the malware Now on the cyber deception issue. Basically, you have a malware campaign...
 
Tags: malware, bankers malware campaign, malware malware, malware campaigns, malicious malware, banker malware, bankers malware, malware authors, campaign
 
 
 
 
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Russia Requires Wi-Fi Registration

2008-04-14 20:04:37 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...Cultural Protection Service) have decided that every device with Wi-Fi inside requires registration for use by an individual user without a transferrable license, according to The Other Russia, which picked the story up from Russian-language site Fontanka.ru While Wi-Fi wasn't as broadly unlicensed in Russia as it is in most other...
 
Tags: wi-fi, russia, home wi-fi network, russian mass media, cultural protection service, site fontanka, registration, transferrable license, vast amounts