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News Report on Non Vulnerability in Windows Vista

2008-11-20 18:41:16 by Chris Wysopal in Zero in a bit
 
...undermine the risk since the attacker already has permission to use to the PC Somewhat undermine the risk? If you need admin rights to exercise a bug it is not a security issue since you could already run any code with whatever privilege you wanted. Microsoft is not issuing a patch, but creating a bug fix in a service pack, yet this is...
 
Tags: windows vista, vulnerability, news report, report, bug fix, bug, headline vulnerability, austrian security vendor, news outlets pick
 
 
 
 
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E-crime and Socioeconomic Factors

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2008-01-21 07:49:29 by HASH0x8b5217c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...undermine the local industry, you'll end up with software engineers working at the local McDonald's during the day, and coding malware during the night - a stereotype. For instance, go through this article and notice the quote regarding the attitude towards the U.S. Malware coders/generators aren't on the verge of starvation, they're on a...
 
Tags: malware, code malware, modern malware, malware generators, source tool, source, malware bot, source malware bots, e-crime
 
 
 
 
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Effective Spyware and Adware Utilities

2007-08-01 19:28:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...undermine personal online security. The X-Cleaner can also find and remove pornographic content that may contain malicious codes on your computer To provide the utmost privacy, the X-Cleaner can also permanently erase files on your PC with a military style file shredder. Stop password theft and know if some users are snooping and recording...
 
Tags: effective spyware, effective, spyware, adware, adware utilities, potential spyware, spyware doctor, adware tools, potential adware
 
 
 
 
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Say When - Trusting Log Timestamps

2008-03-23 04:05:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...undermine the accuracy of timing the records (and thus your certainly and trust in evidence quality Fourth, syslog forwarder mysteries are plenty: some of the syslog messages will be delayed in transit and the be timestamped by the final recipient daemon, thus completely losing when the event was originally logged. Admittedly, this delayed...
 
Tags: logs, windows event logs, syslog files, syslog, define logs, syslog-ng, system logs, syslog daemon, time
 
 
 
 
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Massive IFRAME SEO Poisoning Attack Continuing

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2008-03-27 21:12:29 by HASH0x8b4fa7c in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...undermine the campaign, new malware and fake codecs are introduced under new domain names, and a couple of newly introduced domains within the IFRAMES themselves Keep it Simple Stupid for the sake efficiency is what makes the campaign relatively easy to track once you understand the importance of hot leads, and real-time assessments for...
 
Tags: massive, single massive seo, profile sites, profile sites iframe, attack, seo, malware, malware attack, massive blackhat seo
 
 
 
 
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Got Entropy ?

2008-04-02 02:55:47 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
 
...Undermine This Such an attacker could not remove RF noise from the received signal. Our eyes and brains are good at filtering out the noise in the TV video, but there is a lot of it. Part of the noise comes from the atmospheric background RF, but there are also flaws (noise) in the tuners radio and analog-to-digital capture circuitry I think...
 
Tags: entropy, random, 32-byte random, byte, hardware random, entropy sources, sequence, random sequence, pull entropy
 
 
 
 
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Four ways to fight off strangers with candy

2008-04-17 00:00:00 by Mark Gibbs in Network World on Security
 
Users aren't naïve, they are willfully ignorant and the latest installment of a experiment shows just how easily users can undermine IT security. Here's a summary of the survey and four ways to reduce the impact of user ignorance
 
Tags: users, easily users, user ignorance, experiment, ignorant, nave, survey, undermine, summary
 
 
 
 
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7 dirty secrets of the security industry

2008-05-01 00:00:00 by Tim Greene in Network World on Security
 
Corporate IT executives need to beware the seven dirty secrets of the security industry that can undermine the safety of business networks, a security expert told attendees at Interop Las Vegas
 
Tags: security industry, dirty secrets, interop las vegas, business networks, security expert, attendees, safety, beware, undermine
 
 
 
 
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A Botnet of U.S Military Hosts

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2008-05-14 07:42:27 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...undermine the resources, time and money youve put into the process by avoiding outside-to-inside attacks, and DDoS your infrastructure from inside-to-inside Here are related comments on how unnecessary the whole idea is at the first place
 
Tags: ddos, ddos bandwidth capacity, network infrastructure, adaptive enemy, infrastructure, enemy, enemys communications, hacktivist crowd, resources