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Why do we call them trust boundaries?

Adam Shostack

The second edition of Writing Secure Code (2003) does mention trust boundaries (page 345), with a well-formed definition, and even a closed box example with shading to draw attention to the boundary and chokepoint. Swiderski and Snyders Threat Modeling (2004) has an extensive discussion of trust levels. (15

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Patching in 2024

Adam Shostack

Way back in 2003, we wrote about how people made rational tradeoffs of integrity versus availability when patches are released. Have a device without such support? The issue here is Synology is suddenly ending support for a feature, and making security conditional on accepting that something no longer works.

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Top 20 Cybersecurity Companies You Need to Know in 2025

eSecurity Planet

Barracuda Networks Best for remote worker protection Headquarters: Campbell, California Founded: 2003 Annual Revenue: Private Employees count: 2,000-2,500 Appearances on eSecurity Planet s Top Vendors lists: 11 Barracuda Networks builds on its pioneering email security products to deliver solutions for WAF, UTM, SASE, and zero trust.

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RSA 2025: AI’s Promise vs. Security’s Past — A Reality Check”

Anton on Security

Just imagine, there are still some people somewhere working with COBOL and Windows 2003. It might be inefficient, it might be outdated, but it is here and is already integrated to other systems. Which, of course, creates even more fun problems! Terrifying, indeed!

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Why the Do Not Call Registry doesn’t work

Malwarebytes

Launched in 2003, the Do Not Call Registry is the US government’s way of complying with an earlier law passed in 1994 called the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act. Unfortunately, the anger is misguided, and that’s because the Do Not Call Registry cannot help with stopping any unwanted call.

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Microsoft Patches ‘Wormable’ Flaw in Windows XP, 7 and Windows 2003

Krebs on Security

Microsoft today is taking the unusual step of releasing security updates for unsupported but still widely-used Windows operating systems like XP and Windows 2003 , citing the discovery of a “wormable” flaw that the company says could be used to fuel a fast-moving malware threat like the WannaCry ransomware attacks of 2017.

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Google Earth just made time travel easier - here's how to visit the old neighborhood

Zero Day

Images are awfully blurry pre-2000s, and the photos are in black and white until 2003, but I was still able to find my first car in the driveway and see the now decades-old development beside my neighborhood when it was still trees. Dropping into Street View, I was able to see about a photo a year of my old home until 2007.