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Thwarting a large-scale phishing attack

2007-06-11 11:35:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...explicit warning was not enough to protect many users. The effectiveness of the attack and the increasing sophistication of the phishing pages, some of which were hosted on botnets and were near perfect duplications of MySpace's login page, meant that we needed to switch tactics to combat this new threat In late March, we reached out to...
 
Tags: myspace, myspace profiles, real myspace content, myspace account, attack, dummy myspace account, phishers move, phishers, lower-value sites
 
 
 
 
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The top six corporate email risks

2007-10-27 19:27:40 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...explicit email that ended up being read by over 10 million people around the world. Especially since the company in question was a law firm, and the employees were attorneys, this email caused severe damage of reputation 6 Increasing bandwidth and storage needs ; Not only is the use of attachments growing, their size is increasing as well....
 
Tags: risks, email risks, email, email disclaimer, email communications, companys email system, company network, company, explicit email
 
 
 
 
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Skype Clarifies: The Bug Has Been Fixed

2007-08-22 12:54:28 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...explicit: Yes, the bug has been squashed. The parameters of the P2P network have been tuned to be smarter about how similar situations should be handled. Once we found the algorithmic fix to ensure continued operation in the face of high numbers of client reboots, the efforts focused squarely on stabilising the P2P core. The fix means that...
 
Tags: skype, tuned skype, p2p core, core, bug, similar situations, similar, fix, tuned
 
 
 
 
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Getting into the Flow With Threat Modeling

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2007-10-11 23:25:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
...explicit acknowledgement of this in the Wired article on Halo So looking at the chart of skills versus challenge, theres a channel in the middleits the flow channel. Wed like to guide people there, by giving them challenges that are in line with their skills. Once people are there, we want to prod them from point A to point D, where there are...
 
Tags: threat, people develop skills, people, challenge people, flow, sdl threat, entire threat model, threat model, guide people
 
 
 
 
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Ethics of Autonomous Military Robots

2008-01-28 07:12:35 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...explicit for all concerned parties regarding the deployment of a machine with a lethal potential on its mission Over the next two years, this architecture will be slowly fleshed out in the context of the specific test scenarios outlined in this article. Hopefully the goals of this effort, will fuel other scientists interest to assist in...
 
Tags: ethical, ethical constraint set, ethical robotic warfighter, ethics, ethical boundaries, international protocols, war tradition subscribes, war, international
 
 
 
 
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Laptop stolen from a Kraft Foods traveling employee

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2008-03-04 13:26:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...explicit permission. Collect it, sell it, and offer to protect it for me if I (I pay in the end) pay a fee Interesting Comment on the Quad-City Times Story donjuan463 I can't think of any reason why a large corporation, or any employer for that matter, would have a need to be hopping around the country with employee's personal information....
 
Tags: kraft, sensitive personal information, personal information, kraft tape lost, kraft policy, employee, kraft foods employee, kraft foods, information
 
 
 
 
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Skype Clarifies: The Bug Has Been Fixed

2007-08-22 12:54:28 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...explicit: Yes, the bug has been squashed. The parameters of the P2P network have been tuned to be smarter about how similar situations should be handled. Once we found the algorithmic fix to ensure continued operation in the face of high numbers of client reboots, the efforts focused squarely on stabilising the P2P core. The fix means that...
 
Tags: skype, tuned skype, p2p core, core, bug, similar situations, similar, fix, tuned
 
 
 
 
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Do you listen to your users?

2008-04-04 21:18:17 by Editor in Security x.0
 
...explicit high-level political support to the Get Safe Online initiative and make every effort to recruit additional private sector sponsors. If necessary, the site should be relaunched as a single Internet security portal , providing access not only to the site itself but acting as a focus and entry-point for other related projects 6.46 Club:...
 
Tags: internet, personal internet security, software, content control software, software vendors, users, software liability, club, ilkley computer club
 
 
 
 
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The C-I-A Triad weighed and found wanting

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2007-04-12 04:54:18 by Perry Carpenter in Security Renaissance
...explicit aim of a Denial-of-Service (DOS) attack is to compromise the availability of systems/data Possession : Holding, controlling, and having the ability to use information. Possession is the ability to truly own and control information and how it is used. We normally think of this as unauthorized or unintentional copying of...
 
Tags: information security, information, parkerian hexad, parkerian hexad model, control information, principles, security principles, personal health information, parkerian hexad augments
 
 
 
 
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Breach affects "ever student enrolled at Joliet West High School"

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