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My Supergeek Moment on the Way to Work

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2007-11-02 22:08:09 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...moment", so bear with me I live in Snoqualmie, Washington (see Snoqualmie Falls , 2nd most visited tourist attraction ) - a beautiful place to live that is about 30 minutes from Microsoft. Quicker drive than my old commute, but physically further out, so that means more gas When Microsoft recently launched the free Connector Bus service ,...
 
Tags: microsoft, microsoft recently, weeks ago microsoft, supergeek moment, moment, snoqualmie, bus, snoqualmie ridge, connector bus
 
 
 
 
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The First Step on the Road to More Secure Software is admitting you have a Problem

2008-02-21 14:26:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...moment, let's not compare RedHat to Mac OSX to Ubuntu to Windows Vista, because let's face it, no-one can agree on any measurement of security without getting knotted up. So let's just ignore the comparison stuff. Measuring security is a real challenge, and while we may debate the merits of vulnerability counts, right now it's the only...
 
Tags: vulnerabilities, reduce security vulnerabilities, fewer security vulnerabilities, security vulnerabilities, source security bugs, bugs, major microsoft products, microsoft products, security
 
 
 
 
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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
...moment of time, given the dynamic threatscape these days What's most important to point out about the recent incident of Fortune 500 companies stolen FTP accounts, is that it's "stolen accounting data for sale" as usual, as usual in the sense of the hundreds of other such propositions currently active online. And if we're to use an analogy...
 
Tags: ftp accounts, ftp, iframes, malicious iframes, web service, service, ftp account credentials, demand service, data
 
 
 
 
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UNICEF Too IFRAME Injected and SEO Poisoned

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2008-04-01 07:42:20 by HASH0x8b227b4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...moment to point out that as of yesterday's afternoon the search engines that were indexing the SEO poisoned pages have implemented filters so that the malicious pages no longer appear in their indexes, thereby undermining the critical success factor for this campaign - hijacking search traffic . Case closed? At least for now, and even though...
 
Tags: seo, unicef, easy seo, site, site owner, iframe, unicef effect, massive seo, campaign
 
 
 
 
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Top five information security blog posts

2008-05-05 11:56:34 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...moment 1) ID theft Facebook and MSN exploited by Kai Roer. This is a great example of a malware infection resulting in a compromised Facebook account and the resulting damage that can be done. There are plenty of other Facebook related stories around at the moment including this one from the BBC who were able to create their own malware for...
 
Tags: security, information security, equal security, schneiers security mindset, facebook, facebook account, blog posts, theft facebook, security returns
 
 
 
 
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Mashup of the Titans

2008-06-25 17:29:25 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...moment in space," the microcosm a moment in time Saltzer and Schroeder h) Psychological acceptability: It is essential that the human interface be designed for ease of use, so that users routinely and automatically apply the protection mechanisms correctly. Also, to the extent that the user's mental image of his protection goals matches...
 
Tags: protection mechanisms, protection mechanisms correctly, information security, information, implements protection mechanisms, information travels, information security people, protection, potential information path
 
 
 
 
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A Blast from the Past: CEP at Stanford,1998-2003

2008-07-07 19:20:21 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...moment to moment while the target system is in operation. This paper presents an overview of Complex Event Processing applied to a particular example of a distributed message-based system, a fabrication process management system. The concepts of causal event histories, event patterns, event filtering, and event aggregation are introduced and...
 
Tags: architectural event types, event, event pattern maps, event types, event aggregation, event patterns, complex event, event based, hierarchical event
 
 
 
 
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Summarizing July's Threatscape

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2008-08-01 16:08:24 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...moment and also pointed out that their blog has also been under attack during the month. There's no better example of how the combination of tactics can result in the hijacking of the domains of the organizations implementing procedures aiming to protect against these very same attacks. And while Photobucket.com remained silent during the...
 
Tags: malware, profitable malware operations, malware authors, malware tools, malware coder, malware kit, malware infection, neosploit malware kit, spam
 
 
 
 
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Are fund managers really overcompensated?

2006-08-11 07:55:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...moment based on the postings I see in jobs boards and the number of fresh grads wanting to go into the business (because it pays well I think it's all a matter of supply and demand. As more and more fund managers are needed, it becomes more difficult to get really good managers. The lack of supply raises the price for talents. The lack of...
 
Tags: hedge funds cfa, hedge funds, managers, funds, hedge fund fees, forces, hedge fund, competition forces fees, fees