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Crude oil and gold at all time highs, US manufacturing at 5 year low, feel like buying some security?

2008-03-03 11:11:29 by HASH0x8b2f8e0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Gold hit an all time hight today at $991 an ounce, crude oil at another high of $103.5 , while the dollar tumbled and US manufacturing hit a 5 year low. Just not a pretty picture. My thoughts begin to wander to what effect our economy is going to have to have on the IT industry and security in particular. I have seen pundits on both sides of...
 
Tags: security, security budgets, time, bad times, times, budgets, bigger hit, hit, tough times business
 
 
 
 
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'Paris for President' Parody Strikes Viral Gold

2008-08-10 19:30:00 by Jenna Wortham in Wired Security
 
Socialite turned political spoofer Paris Hilton hits web gold with her faux bid for presidency. The mock campaign video has been viewed more than 6.2 million times
 
Tags: mock campaign video, faux bid, million times, socialite, presidency
 
 
 
 
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Who's Behind the GPcode Ransomware?

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2008-06-10 09:44:53 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...gold and Liberty Reserve accounts, running three different GPcode campaigns, two of which request either $100 or $200 for the decryptor, and communicating from Chinese IPs. Here are all the details regarding the emails they use, the email responses they sent back, the currency accounts, as well their most recent IPs used in the communication...
 
Tags: account, e-gold account, e-gold, file, sample response email, txt file, virtual currency accounts, liberty reserve accounts, liberty reserve
 
 
 
 
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Identifying the Gpcode Ransomware Author

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2008-09-30 17:23:32 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...gold and Liberty Reserve accounts, running three different GPcode campaigns, two of which request either $100 or $200 for the decryptor, and communicating from Chinese IPs. Here are all the details regarding the emails they use, the email responses they sent back, the currency accounts, as well their most recent IPs used in the communication...
 
Tags: gpcode, gpcode campaigns, recent gpcode, gpcode ransomware, gpcode campaigners, gpcode authors, kaspersky lab, virtual currency accounts, liberty reserve accounts
 
 
 
 
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Orthogonal Blogging at the SOA Horse Races

2008-01-20 06:30:30 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...gold disk of the-answers-to-all-your-problems. They leave you the gold disk, and your business problem, as they drive away, looking at you in the rear view mirror as they count the revenue from their victorious campaign These same companies bet on jargon like SOA, EDA, CEP, BAM and they hedge their bets with different combinations of the...
 
Tags: real, real-world, real business solutions, soa, soa horse, real business, software, software companies, customers
 
 
 
 
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Clever Museum Theft

2008-06-06 05:04:38 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...gold jewelry designed by prominent Canadian artist Bill Reid were stolen from the museum sometime on May 23, along with three pieces of gold-plated Mexican jewelry. The pieces that were taken are estimated to be worth close to $2 million Of course, it's not the museum's fault: But museum director Anthony Shelton said that elaborate computer...
 
Tags: compromise security, security, museum, campus security, security failure, security system, computer program printouts, system, key surveillance cameras
 
 
 
 
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Assessing the Security Benefits of Cloud Computing

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2008-07-21 07:00:15 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
...Gold Image VM and clone away. There are ways to do this today with bare-metal OS installs but frequently these require additional 3rd party tools, are time consuming to clone or add yet another agent to each endpoint Reduce exposure through patching offline : Gold images can be kept up securely kept up to date. Offline VMs can be conveniently...
 
Tags: benefits, cloud, security, technical security benefits, based, virtualization based cloud, efficient security software, security software, cloud market
 
 
 
 
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The Pentagon's World of Warcraft Movie-Plot Threat

2008-09-18 13:29:12 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Gold and 234 Silver" in treasure. "No one will dance there for a hundred years after this spell is cast," one player, "war monger," crows Except, in this case, the White Keep is at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. "Dragon Fire" is an unconventional weapon. And "110 Gold and 234 Silver" tells the plotters how to align the game's map with one of...
 
Tags: world, warcraft, plot, play world, warcraft players discuss, movie-plot threat, online world, meatspace plot, dragon fire
 
 
 
 
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Kaspersky remains in the best category

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2008-11-13 17:09:14 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
...Gold Malware Treatment Award from Anti-Malware Test Lab Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces that Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 has received the Gold Malware Treatment Award from respected security software test laboratory Anti-Malware Test Lab
 
Tags: kaspersky, kaspersky lab, kaspersky anti-virus, anti-malware test lab, kaspersky products, fan, receives, developer, announces
 
 
 
 
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Thwarting a large-scale phishing attack