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Cyber Jihadist Hacking Teams

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2007-12-17 20:03:29 by HASH0x847073c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...defend the freedom and liberty of a territory and defend it from the attacks of evil intruders. similarly , E-jihad is the battle in the field of cyber space, against all false believes, and to defend the truth against the false and mean propagandas and cults. It is as necessary as a regular army, to defend the ideological borders of a...
 
Tags: anti-islamic web sites, islamic web sites, web, jihad, electronic jihad program, campaign, electrnic jihad campaign, web sites, cyber jihad
 
 
 
 
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Techies Respond to Torvalds on Security Bugs

2008-07-31 16:18:18 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...defend that viewpoint." Wow! I figured someone would defend him just because it's Linus! I also disagree with him, but I suspect Linus is comfortable even if nobody agrees. I admire people who make up their own minds
 
Tags: linus, suspect linus, security bugs, internet storm center, admire people, reader mail, defend, viewpoint, security bug
 
 
 
 
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Techies Respond to Torvalds on Security Bugs

2008-07-31 16:18:18 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...defend that viewpoint." Wow! I figured someone would defend him just because it's Linus! I also disagree with him, but I suspect Linus is comfortable even if nobody agrees. I admire people who make up their own minds
 
Tags: linus, suspect linus, security bugs, internet storm center, admire people, reader mail, defend, viewpoint, security bug
 
 
 
 
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Schneier for TSA Administrator

2008-11-18 13:46:24 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...defend against the broad threat of terrorism than focus on the narrow threat of airplane terrorism, and I'd rather they defend against the myriad of threats that face our society than focus on the singular threat of terrorism. But the head of the TSA can't have those opinions; he has to take the money he's given and perform the specific...
 
Tags: tsa, security, mere security theater, cato institute security, tsa workers, security experts agree, attacks, terror attacks, terrorism
 
 
 
 
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The Economics of Finding and Fixing Vulnerabilities in Distributed Systems

2008-11-18 22:47:55 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...defend" that with allocating $150 Million worth of software security tools On the network side we are buying $900 million of security countermeasures (Checkpoint firewalls) to protect $39.5 billion worth of Cisco gear, about 2.3% of the network investment goes to security On the software side, we are buying $150 million of security...
 
Tags: information security, information, information security spends, safety information security, versus information security, information security budgets, information security budget, software security, software security space
 
 
 
 
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Recent Symantec and IBM vulnerabilities, giblets, banned APIs and the SDL

2008-01-04 23:37:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...defend themselves from attack Second, I like to analyze security vulnerabilities in other products to gauge where attackers are going. As the SDL hardens Microsoft products, we are seeing attackers move elsewhere Third, I like to think about how the SDL might have caught the bugs. There is always a chance to learn from these occurrences, and...
 
Tags: linker sdl requirements, sdl requirements, ibm, sdl, requirements, symantec, bugs affect ibm, bugs, sdl refers
 
 
 
 
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Trend Micro stresses 'tested' patent in trade case

2008-01-29 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
Barracuda Networks plans to focus on finding prior art to defend itself and the open-source ClamAV project against patent claims by rival antivirus vendor Trend Micro, which stressed Tuesday that it owns a tested and valid patent
 
Tags: open-source clamav project, barracuda networks plans, prior art, patent claims, valid patent, defend, focus, tuesday, owns
 
 
 
 
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NSA Monitoring U.S. Government Internet Traffic

2008-02-04 06:30:10 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...defend government computer systems, the Department of Homeland Security will collect and monitor data on intrusions, deploy technologies for preventing attacks and encrypt data. It will also oversee the effort to reduce Internet portals across government to 50 from 2,000, to make it easier to detect attacks My concern is that the NSA is doing...
 
Tags: government, nsa, detect attacks, attacks, domestic government traffic, plan attacks, white house officials, white house, data
 
 
 
 
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Benevolent Worms

2008-02-19 06:57:11 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...defend against malicious types of worm, the researchers say Software worms spread by self-replicating. After infecting one computer they probe others to find new hosts. Most existing worms randomly probe computers when looking for new hosts to infect, but that is inefficient, says Vojnovic, because they waste time exploring groups or...
 
Tags: software worms spread, worms, software, bad software distribution, worm, successful worm, beneficial worms, software distribution mechanism, worm quieter