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Stop Me if This Sounds Familiar

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2008-11-02 22:30:30 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
...wishful thinking about values and wishful thinking about ability to clear People don't think about the consequences of the consequences. People start by trying to hedge against interest rate changes, which is very difficult and complicated. Then, the hedges make the [reported profits] lumpy. So they use the new derivatives to smooth this....
 
Tags: derivatives book, book, derivatives, derivative books, books, derivatives blowup, derivatives operations, blowup, favorite book
 
 
 
 
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MDAC ActiveX Code Execution Exploit Still in the Wild

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2007-12-05 12:08:56 by HASH0x89e6630 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...wishful thinking, one the people behind Storm Worm apparently perceived as FUD-ish one, and by not following it , ended up with operating the largest botnet known for the time being - a botnet that was built on the foundations of outdated vulnerabilities pushed through emails, using sites as the infection vector , and not a single zero day...
 
Tags: exploit, day, day vulnerabilities, htm, malware, malware exploitation kit, single exploit urls, vulnerabilities, storm worm apparently
 
 
 
 
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PAINTing a Botnet IRC Channel

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2008-01-14 19:02:52 by HASH0x8a264c4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
I suppose that even for a script kiddie it takes extra time and patience to come up with such a spoofed IRC channel getting crowded with infected hosts. Drawing courtesy of a script kiddie's wishful thinking. Here are some screenshots from the real world , and some of the most recent developments I covered in previous posts
 
Tags: script kiddie, irc channel, takes extra time, recent developments, real world, previous posts, hosts, courtesy, wishful
 
 
 
 
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Terror on the Internet - Conflict of Interest

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2008-03-18 19:58:23 by HASH0x8471fd8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...wishful comments in the lines of "blocking access to bomb and poison making tutorials", missing a very important point, namely, that these very same manuals, and jihadist magazines are not residing in a cyber-jihad.com/bomb-making-guide.zip domain and file extension form, making the process a bit more complex to realize. Unless of course the...
 
Tags: cyber jihadist, cyber jihadist communities, novice cyber jihadists, jihadists, cyber jihadist forums, cyber jihadist sites, attract cyber jihadists, internet, cyber jihadists
 
 
 
 
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A Commercial Web Site Defacement Tool

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2008-04-01 06:25:00 by HASH0x8b4eee4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...wishful thinking Related posts Hacktivism Tensions Hacktivism Tensions - Israel vs Palestine Cyberwars Mass Defacement by Turkish Hacktivists Overperforming Turkish Hacktivists
 
Tags: malware, malware attack, approaches, defacers, creative approaches, site, entire defacers community, defacers deface, deface
 
 
 
 
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Some Burning Logging Questions - Answered!

2008-04-23 16:20:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...wishful thinking for many. Also, raw UDP syslog in large quantities over WAN = insanity Q5: What were some successful strategies for obtaining buy-in from system owners and operators in regards to turning logging on A5: OK, also too broad a question, but here are some pointers provide them a useful service based on their logs (e.g....
 
Tags: data, raw log data, logs compress, logs, analyze unknown logs, unknown, data retrieval commands, measure logs, log data
 
 
 
 
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Opinion: Where are those infosec jobs?

2008-05-22 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Those news reports of vastly increased information security spending just around the corner may sound awfully cheerful, but Jon Espenschied detects some lazy -- or is it wishful? -- thinking
 
Tags: news reports, information security, detects, cheerful, wishful, lazy, jon, corner, vastly
 
 
 
 
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The Secret Life of CEP

2008-08-05 18:32:44 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...wishful thinking Companies dont need to keep their strong technical solutions a secret. Like, Wow! I am using Coral8 and it is so impressive that I have to keep it TOP SECRET. (Sorry Mark, nothing personal, you simply gave me a big red target and painted fire when ready on it Note: I happen to like Coral8, and Coral8 Studio,as an event stream...
 
Tags: cep, secret, cep solutions, major cep vendor, secret life, cep solution secrecy, cep mature, top secret, coral8
 
 
 
 
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Have CrackBerry, Will Travel

2008-09-25 08:45:34 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...wishful thinking. It is always possible that nation states are monitoring some or all of the airwaves. Not so long ago the NSA had a massive a covert surveillance program in place. Years before the government was reportedly snarfing up terabytes of emails and crunching them through a program called Carnivore. And of course, selective...
 
Tags: blackberry transport encryption, transport encryption, exemption, blackberry exemption reasonable, blackberry, disk encryption, disk encryption features, blackberry fix, decrypt blackberry