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DRM Scorecard Makes Me Wonder: The Media Industry and the TSA, Sadistic or Incompetent?

2007-08-02 08:19:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...scorecard where the box score reads Hackers 1000, Industry 0 This all goes back to the simple fact that all DRM is based on encryption, and that its illogical to give someone the decryption key that is required to enable what the media industry views as authorized behavior (media playback) without expecting someone else to utilize that...
 
Tags: media industry, industry, media industry views, illogical behavior impedes, drm, behavior, drm scorecard, secret, secret internal referendum
 
 
 
 
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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
 
...scorecard index [6], so you can measure such things as transport security, message security, threat protection and so on. The hard work in developing the index is developing a useful scale. A scale for XML tokens could use the following 0: no token 1: hashed token 2: hashed and signed token 3: hashed and signed token from standard...
 
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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Government Sent Home with a C on FISMA Report Card

2008-08-05 13:43:51 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
 
...scorecard? SC Magazine writes, Many have seen organizations get an A when they believe they should have received an F, and vice versa and some experts blame this on the lack of a standardized evaluation, as well as censorship among auditors. Theres talk about language ambiguities and opinions that the scorecard is not one size fits all that...
 
Tags: fisma average grade, average grade, fisma, grade, fisma grade, scorecard, fisma scorecard, fisma requirements, requirements
 
 
 
 
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You Can't Tell the Malware Kits Without A Scorecard!

2007-08-24 13:57:55 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
You've undoubtedly heard about malware "kits" that people use to make the actual malicious software that we download and install after confusing it with an e-card or free pornography. Here's a blog that specializes in monitoring these kits. There's dangerous stuff in the links there, so be careful. It's at sites like this that you wonder about...
 
Tags: malware, malware authors, analysis, malware analysis, kits, actual malicious software, free pornography, dangerous stuff, author
 
 
 
 
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Intellectual Property- what is it and how do we secure it?

2007-12-29 06:43:45 by Editor in Security Links
 
...Scorecard approach amongst many others. Sample case studies are given of how the methods in the book have been used successfully, including eBay and Amazon amongst many others Source
 
Tags: intellectual property, treaties, international patent treaties, major copyright agreements, agreements, copyright, rights, intellectual property rights, copyright legislation
 
 
 
 
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Passes 1000 Vulnerabilities

2007-10-16 17:23:36 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
 
...Scorecard posting, I was amused to see a posting about it on truthhhappens.redhatmagazine.com (click to see the post). I can't even do it justice by paraphrasing, so here is the text A Microsoft vulnerability report suggests that Microsoft wasnt able to fix more Windows flaws than the number of open software flaws fixed by the major open...
 
Tags: red hat, fixed, software flaws fixed, red hat truth, team fixed, microsoft, security vulnerabilities, team, minor bugs
 
 
 
 
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July 2007 - Operating System Vulnerability Scorecard

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2007-08-16 22:47:26 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
...scorecards, so last weekend, I decided to dig in and catch up to July. I hit a few road bumps Sun changed their Security Alerts web site, making it a bit more challenging. I gave up for now, but will try to add them back with subsequent scorecards Novell, in a similar but different move, created a new psdb page for their version Enterprise...
 
Tags: server, linux server builds, server charts, charts, ytd charts, non-linux products, linux products, linux products comments, common server roles
 
 
 
 
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You Can't Tell the Malware Kits Without A Scorecard!

2007-08-24 13:57:55 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
You've undoubtedly heard about malware "kits" that people use to make the actual malicious software that we download and install after confusing it with an e-card or free pornography. Here's a blog that specializes in monitoring these kits. There's dangerous stuff in the links there, so be careful. It's at sites like this that you wonder about...
 
Tags: malware, malware authors, analysis, malware analysis, kits, actual malicious software, free pornography, dangerous stuff, author
 
 
 
 
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Great Service from Network World

2008-03-28 03:36:23 by JJ in Security Uncorked
 
...scorecard at NWW So, thanks to whomever forwarded the post to NWW, and a special thanks for the quick help from their customer support
 
Tags: special, me- special delivery, post, nww, quick response, customer service department, procurve switch, procurve, current weeks edition