“Detection is a Flawed” Strategy by Simon Crosby at Dark Reading: http://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/times-running-out-for-the-$76-billion-detection-industry/a/d-id/1321381 Simon goes over the problems we have had including the Target failure, where the malware was detected but not acted upon (2014). So the Firewall Industry does sell a difficult job – they do know that breaches occur, there will be breaches. (image … Read more
2 Wired articles : http://www.wired.com/2015/07/senate-bill-seeks-standards-cars-defenses-hackers/ http://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/ The articles discuss how one industry is using the new Internet connected services and devices to give more functionality to their customers. That’s great right? So what did 2 researchers do 2011? they connected a laptop and controlled the car through the diagnostic connector. The auto industry laughed at … Read more
Why put such an emphasis on keeping up with the Security news? When a new hack comes out it takes time to create the attacks and the defenses, that initial time from the vulnerability being introduced is the most important time you have. Once the Vulnerability is introduced then there is a certain time … Read more
I’m always monitoring multiple newsfeeds for the latest Security news (this is why I set up my top30 Security News Analyzed page). In my review I found the following 2 links which are tied into a recurring theme us security people attempt to work through. CIO’s real security headache http://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-cios-real-security-headache/ Six technical measures … Read more
There are many articles gleefully advancing when Mozilla and Chrome stopped Flash from running on Tuesday of this week. (until the new vulnerability was patched) readwrite: http://readwrite.com/2015/07/15/firefox-mozilla-kill-adobe-flash there is even a movement against Flash now: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/mozilla-blocks-flash-in-firefox,29583.html With an interesting militant image: Why did this happen? Well the problem is that Flash is multi-platform and multi-browser … Read more