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Mobile App Security Series: It’s 10pm. Do you know where your data is?
January 16, 2013 Added by:Brandon Knight
Mobile devices continue to pick up steam on becoming the primary device that many people use for email, web browsing, social media and even shopping. As we continue installing app after app which we then put our personal information in to the question is how secure are these apps?
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Who is Responsible for Application Security? Development or Security?
January 10, 2013 Added by:Matt Neely
During a recent visit to a client site, I took part in a discussion where the Development Department and the Security Department were arguing over which group was responsible for the security of web applications. Security felt it was the responsibility of the developers, and the developers felt it was the responsibility of security. I commonly see this debate taking place inside organizations, s...
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Here’s How The Amazing Twitter Infosec Team Helps DevOps
December 25, 2012 Added by:Gene Kim
Want to see how infosec integrates into a DevOps work stream? Watch this fantastic talk by Justin Collins, Neil Matatall, and Alex Smolen from Twitter, called “Put Your Robots To Work: Security Automation at Twitter..."
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The Four Horsemen of the Cyber-Apocalypse: Security Software FUD
December 15, 2012 Added by:Tripwire Inc
Did the title of this post get your attention? We are doomed! The sky is falling! All of your computers are infected! We are just one security breach away from complete human extinction! The security software industry is guilty of overhyping cyber threats to sell their products, second only to Hollywood...
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Mobile Devices get means for Tamper-Evident Forensic Auditing
December 13, 2012 Added by:Michelle Drolet
In order to detect security breaches and guarantee compliance, tamper “proofing” has not been sufficient. When it comes time for a forensic audit, the ability to detect unauthorized changes to digital files becomes invaluable in an investigation...
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Gift Cards, Money Laundering, And Other Shenanigans
December 05, 2012 Added by:Jackie Singh
Well, one thing that makes the use of bank card schemes quite safe is that it’s quite a bit harder to clone the value of a card on to another. It’s certainly doable to clone the card itself and use it multiple times, but it’s going to drain the account as it is used...
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HostDime, SoftLayer, et al, Need to be Federally Bitch-Slapped For Violating Syrian Sanctions
November 30, 2012 Added by:Jeffrey Carr
When the New York Times released its story that some of the Syrian government's websites were hosted outside of Syria, I wasn't surprised to see SoftLayer as one of the hosts. They are the company that hosted StopGeorgia.ru, the Russian forum which coordinated many of the cyber attacks...
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Weaponizing the Nokia N900 – Part 4.0 – A Three Year Anniversary!
November 25, 2012 Added by:Kyle Young
I still believe the best phone for hackers is the Nokia N900 and it is a shame that Nokia decided to go the way of Microsoft. I personally believe that Nokia should have gone the route of an Android/Linux hybrid mobile operating system, but that’s just my opinion...
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Software is Eating the World, And APIs are the Fuel For That
November 13, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
The cloud brings a level of agility that allows organization to be more nimble than before. Cloud powers workers in disparate geographies to collaborate on projects. Cloud enables the mobile provisioning of mass information in new ways. Cloud makes insights into vast stores of data more readily obtained...
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Man-in-the-Middle Redux
November 05, 2012 Added by:Tripwire Inc
This attack used to be fairly innovative. But not so much anymore. Would-be attackers can buy the basic components “off the shelf” using ready-made toolkits like Ettercap, Mallory (I love the creative use of the classic MITM name), and dsniff. If you’d like a better look at how it works, this is a good video...
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IP Analysis with AV Tracker
November 04, 2012 Added by:Rob Fuller
Ever set up a multi/handler and get an odd IP hitting it? You might have just been caught. AV Tracker is a site that tracks the different IP addresses, hostnames, computer names and user agents that AV and other submit-your-malware-here drop boxes use...
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Third Party Application Analysis: Best Practices and Lessons Learned
November 02, 2012 Added by:Fergal Glynn
Communication and execution are crucial to successful third party analyses. A huge contributing factor for these best practices is project management. Project management activities such as status meetings, enterprise follow-ups, and open discussions will facilitate the analysis process...
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Ask The Experts: Online Banking
October 24, 2012 Added by:Brent Huston
Instead of using your actual name as your login, why not use something different that is hard to guess and doesn’t reveal anything about your identity? It always pays to make it as tough on the cyber-criminals as possible..
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Believe It or Not, DevOps and Infosec Are a Perfect Culture Match
October 14, 2012 Added by:Gene Kim
By integrating automated security testing into the deployment pipeline, just as the functional and integration tests are, information security testing becomes part of the daily operations of Development. As a result, security defects are found and fixed more quickly than ever...
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Java, Flash, and the Choice of Usability Over Security
September 10, 2012 Added by:Le Grecs
Convenience vs. Security: My goal of not installing Flash and Java on a new system didn't last more than a few hours. Yet, as infosec professionals, following the disable unnecessary services philosophy, we advise not installing these types of applications for security reasons...
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Securing Your Application Perimeter: Getting Results
September 08, 2012 Added by:Fergal Glynn
What applications should you be testing? Just because the discovery process identifies 300 web applications doesn’t mean that you’d want to test the 30 that clearly should be decommissioned...
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