Defend Your Systems
David Krebs story: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/10/at-experian-security-attrition-amid-acquisitions/ I want to focus on Board of Directors decisions to grow through acquisition, wanting to do growth securely, but in practice has lots of problems. The…
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/12/iranian-hackers-used-visual-basic-malware-to-wipe-vegas-casinos-network/ A very interesting story of Iranian hackers (whether government sponsored or sanctioned does not matter) attacked and deleted a lot of files using Visual Basic. (I know from 2014…
The New Ponemon study (sponsored by HP) http://www8.hp.com/us/en/software-solutions/ponemon-cyber-security-report/index.html?jumpid=va_rmaig2786p Global Study at a Glance 252 companies in 7 countries 2,128 interviews with company personnel 1,928 total attacks used to measure total…
To answer why Cybersecurity? we must discuss how software is being developed. There are traditional software methods (also called waterfall) from the following site: http://www.umsl.edu/~hugheyd/is6840/waterfall.html I always like to break…
Yes we(humans) are Risk seeking with losses, and risk averse with gains. https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2008/01/the_psychology_of_se.html “Security is a tradeoff,” Schneier said, speaking to a packed audience at his RSA session. “What are…