After a long Weekend I wonder if there is a good enough understanding of how(and why) hackers do what they do – i.e. What makes a hacker want to take control of an airplane just to see if they can do it? There is a widely discussed Wired article: http://www.wired.com/2015/05/feds-say-banned-researcher-commandeered-plane/ about hacking an airplane and potentially … Read more
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118014402282815483 An excellent tribute and a very good expanation in 2007 Memorial Day and today 8 years later: Once we knew who and what to honor on Memorial Day: those who had given all their tomorrows, as was said of the men who stormed the beaches of Normandy, for our todays. But in a … Read more
I.e. Bruce Schneier quote: Can we patch vulnerabilities faster than attackers can exploit them? The University of maryland, College park has a website project: https://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~tdumitra/blog/2015/04/15/impact-of-shared-code-on-vulnerability-patching/ In my opinion the crux of their vulnerability survey is in this graph(also from Univ of Maryland link): The end result of this survey was that how long vulnerabilities … Read more
A new report came out https://weakdh.org/imperfect-forward-secrecy.pdf The group of researchers created a website to explain their findings: The Logjam Attack (https://weakdh.org) It looks like they also did a scan of the Internet (this is typical of security researchers using zmap.io) and found over 8.4% of Top1 million domains were at risk. This means … Read more
We have all heard or seen the headlines Sony gets hacked, Home Depot Credit Card processing stolen, Target credit Card processing stolen, and more and more companies are all getting hacked. So big deal you say how did that happen? Yes, most of the reason breaches occur is a human employee clicks on spam or … Read more