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Twelve Word Tuesday: Using the Cloud to Attack the Cloud

by John Pescatore  |  May 17, 2011  |  Submit a Comment

Most cost-effective attack launch platform: Amazon Free Tier EC2 or homegrown botnet? Bloomberg reports Amazon EC2 used in Sony Playstation Network attack.

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Twelve Word Tuesday: Seventeen Years of Browser Cookie Tracking Drives Need for Do Not Track Features

by John Pescatore  |  May 10, 2011  |  Submit a Comment

The real Y2K disaster: RFC2965 kills RFC2109 and Internet user privacy implodes.

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Twelve Word Tuesday: Are You Building Your Web Site Below the 10 Year Hacking Line?

by John Pescatore  |  May 3, 2011  |  Submit a Comment

Using cloud without verifying security: building headquarters lower than the tsunami markers. International Herald Tribune: “Ancestral Markers Warned Japanese of Tsunamis“

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Some Things About Security Are Global, Many Are Not

by John Pescatore  |  May 2, 2011  |  2 Comments

Two weeks ago I traveled to Tokyo and spoke at Gartner’s Information Security and Risk Summit.  We surveyed the 300 attendees after the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear power plant disasters and they still wanted to attend the conference, so we were glad to hold it. (Gartner also had a Data Center conference last week in Tokyo, as well.) [...]

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