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The Psychology of Con Men

2008-10-20 05:57:19 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Interesting : My all-time favourite [short con] only makes the con artist a few dollars every time he does it, but I absolutely love it. These guys used to go door-to-door in the 1970s selling lightbulbs and they would offer to replace every single lightbulb in your house, so all your old lightbulbs would be replaced with a brand new lightbulb,...
 
Tags: lightbulbs, single, single lightbulb, house, lightbulb, cost, door-to-door, absolutely love, con artist
 
 
 
 
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Hey, do I know you?

2007-10-22 00:00:00 by Uriel Maimon in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
My friends have gotten tired of hearing me talk about how dreadful it is to be single. One of my friends S. (who has four children and a mortgage) suggested that I take over looking after his kids while *he* wakes up with a hangover next to a half-empty bottle of Jack Daniels and photos of a wild party and the younger sister of one of my work...
 
Tags: singles bar scene, friends, soul companion, half-empty bottle, jack daniels, sordid meaningless, wild party, friend, photos
 
 
 
 
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Security is Everybody's Job

2007-09-18 00:00:00 by Jamie Barnett in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
It was blasphemy at the time. At the 2007 RSA Conference in San Francisco, our President, Art Coviello, made the claim that the standalone security market was not long for this world. Some in the audience must have thought he was Looney Tunes, making a claim like that at a longtime venue dedicated to all things security. In my role driving...
 
Tags: security, standalone security market, job, information infrastructure products, storage professionals regularly, s-job, looney tunes, art coviello, emc products
 
 
 
 
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Putting all one's eggs in a single basket

2007-05-21 00:00:00 by Uriel Maimon in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
I was crawling my way through the series of tubes that is the internet, when I ran into this news article . It seems a certain large financial institution's consumers were hit by a banking Trojan . This financial institution had deployed tokens to all its online banking customers, but the Trojan managed to bypass this protection by combining two...
 
Tags: financial institution, trojan, news article, fraud techniques, protection, internet, tubes, tokens, hit
 
 
 
 
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Cyber spies plan attacks next year

2007-12-28 13:15:45 by Editor in ElectricNews.net - SECURITY
 
Cyber spying will pose the single biggest security threat in 2008, with 120 countries now using the internet for web espionage operations, according to security company McAfee
 
Tags: web espionage operations, security company mcafee, cyber, security threat, single, internet, countries, pose
 
 
 
 
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Modeling Urban Panic

2008-01-14 12:09:28 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Paul Torrens , at the Arizona State University School of Geographical Sciences, has a computer simulation that models urban panic : "The goal of this project is to develop a reusable and behaviorally founded computer model of pedestrian movement and crowd behavior amid dense urban environments, to serve as a test-bed for experimentation," says...
 
Tags: peaceful crowd, crowd, test hypotheses, test, crowd flees, models urban panic, major arterial streets, torrens, mass evacuation prior
 
 
 
 
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OMG, This is Funny: BullshIT Awards :-)

2008-01-15 23:31:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
Nick Selby delivers: " The 2007 BullsIT Awards: The Top Ten Tech-Flack Quotes of the Year! Annotated Examples: "Our offering is very unique in the origination space." (#10) or "Its a single, interoperable, scalable, extensive security framework that protects the data today and tomorrow as the infrastructure changes." (#3) and of course his old...
 
Tags: nick selby delivers, extensive security framework, development cycle, bullsit awards, tech-flack quotes, origination space, relationship, research, protects
 
 
 
 
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Check Point merges security clients

2008-02-08 00:00:00 by Tim Greene in Network World on Security
 
Check Point is combining two of its separate desktop clients and adding antivirus software into a single security client that can help simplify the distribution and management of endpoints
 
Tags: single security client, check, desktop clients, antivirus software, management, endpoints, distribution
 
 
 
 
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The Continuing .Gov Blackat SEO Campaign

The Article has images
2008-02-18 15:23:38 by HASH0x8bf8e28 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Just like the situation in the previous case of injecting SEO content into .gov domains , once the pages are up and running, they get actively advertised across the Web, again automatically. While bridger-mt.gov responds to 72.22.69.184 , the subdomain freeporn.eee.bridger-mt.gov is pointing to another netblock, in this case 66.49.238.80 ,...
 
Tags: gov, pages, gov domains, bridger, gov responds, bridger-mt, cobb county government, freeporn, subdomain freeporn
 
 
 
 
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Information abuse: How far should you trust your users?

2008-02-25 14:47:42 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
The problem with information abuse involving a single person's data is the difficulty in detecting that a problem might exist. For example, an employee accessing a politician's financial records might be authorized to do so as part of her daily activities. Without additional information as to why the data are accessed, management is unable to...
 
Tags: information, additional information, respond appropriately, respond, single person, financial records, data, daily activities, unable