Wednesday, April 22, 2009

About Net Security: April 22, 2009

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  from Tony Bradley, CISSP-ISSAP
Have you ever complained about accuracy of the weather person on your local news channel? They predicted warm and partly cloudy and you got thunderstorms and flash floods? You may have even wondered how someone who seems to be wrong more than they are right is a local celebrity and makes more money than you. Well, even a bad weather person is probably right at least 50% of the time. If you go into the spam and phishing business you only have to get it right 2% of the time. You'll make a lot of money, but I am not sure about the local celebrity part.
 
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The 2% Business Model
If you were only 2% successful at your job, how long do you think you'd get to keep it? Heck, baseball players with a poor batting average still hit the ball 10% to 20% of the time. NBA basketball players who are poor free throw shooters can still usually make 30% or 40% of the shots even if its on accident. So, '2%' and 'success rate' would seem like...read more

 
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Adapting Security to New Technologies
Security administrators would prefer it if people would stop coming up with new technologies. Organizations were just getting a handle on general network security and email, then instant messaging got mixed in there. As soon as they figured out how to protect and manage instant messaging USB flash drives and portable storage became an issue. Its always something and it seems that things are never 'stable' long...read more

 
Potential Security Vulnerability Exposed in iPhone
A few weeks ago at the CanSecWest security conference Charlie Miller walked away with the Pwn2Own prize for successfully compromising a fully patched Mac OS X system in a matter of seconds. Miller is making headlines again with the announcement that he has discovered that it is possible to trick the iPhone into running shellcode and expose it to attack. The ability to run shellcode essentially...read more

 
 
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