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Zuckerberg's $100 million education grant: doomed to fail?
Is Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million gift to the Newark school system doomed to fail?
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"No more free bugs"? There never were any free bugs
Vulnerability researchers have always extracted value out of their work, even before there was a monetary value placed on exploits. Security researchers at last week's CanSecWest conference...
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A password vault is as mandatory as anti-virus
We all need to get out of the mindset that our primary e-mail address combined with a single universal password are our credentials for the world. Admit it. You have one password. You may even...
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Why cyberwarfare sounds more like AK-47s than like stealth bombers
Cyberwarfare consisting of citizen militias and the digital equivalent of cheap rifles does not preclude the existence of more effective weaponry. First, a history lesson. The second half of the...
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Botnets and illicit file swapping: the original "cloud computing"
The primary motives that are being cited for cloud computing, such as lower operational cost, scalability to elastic demand, and high availability, have all been addressed before in the...
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DDoS applications becoming democratized, tools of protest
In a presentation at SOURCE Boston, Dr. Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks stated that DDoS applications are moving from the domain of trained attackers to tools for the average person to voice a...
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MySpace using Cloudmark anti-spam for in-network abuse
Last week Twitter user Fausto Cepeda asked Ryan if we could go beyond discussing straight security news and talk about product and technology trends on the blog. It was perfect timing. Cloudmark...
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U.S.'s cybersecurity director has resigned.
Rod Beckstrom, an author and Silicon Valley entrepreneur, has resigned the position of National Director of Cybersecurity. Mr. Beckstrom's position, which reported to the head of DHS, involved...
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Russia kinda-sorta owns up to Estonia cyberwar
Radio Free Europe is reporting that an official from Putin's party has publicly stated that he orchestrated the 2007 DDoS Attacks on Estonia. The information security and military communities...
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Design specs on the president's helicopter found on Iranian systems; leaked via P2P
Design specs on the President's helicopter, Marine One, have been found on an Iranian server, according to a security firm that gathers intelligence on peer-to-peer networks. According to P2P...
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Microsoft confirms 0-day in Excel, expands list of vulnerable systems
Microsoft has confirmed that the code execution vulnerability reported yesterday in Excel is real, and has expanded the list of vulnerable systems. Microsoft has stated that the code execution...
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Brand spanking new Excel 0-day being exploited in the wild
Symantec is reporting that a new remote vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft Excel 2007, and that this vulnerability is being exploited in the wild. Details are sparse, but it looks...
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Competitors for the next hash standard found to have security-related coding flaws
As further proof that no one is immune to making mistakes, two of the algorithms competing to be the next hash standard were found to contain buffer overflows. The government board in charge of...
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Why I am against pure net neutrality
While it may sound like treating all ISP traffic equally is a good idea, mandating strict net neutrality hurts computer security for all of us. Those of you who are tech heads and reside in the...
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Do we need a new internet? No, but we do need more researchers.
The New York Times ran an article on a new academic research project whose goal is to redesign the Internet from scratch. The most valuable product that will come from this effort is not new...
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Microsoft announces industry alliance, $250k reward to combat Conficker
Microsoft has announced an alliance of various industry partners whose goal is to fight the Conficker worm. The announcement is short on actionable methods for stopping the worm, but it does...
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Kaspersky suffers attack on support site, no apparent data breach
Word came out this weekend that the U.S. support site for the AV Vendor Kaspersky Labs was compromised by attackers. Earlier this week an attacker used a SQL Injection attack to compromise a...
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Social networks have taught us cryptography (probably) won't stop spam
On a regular basis I receive blog comments and suggestions on what magical technologies will put spam out of business. There are many valid techniques for stopping spam, but signing e-mails and...
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The psychological impact of false positives
False positives, or the act of marking legitimate content as being malicious, are an unfortunate but unavoidable consequence of rapid response security technologies. They are relatively rare,...
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