Raising children in the age of the Internet is both exhilarating and terrifying.
As a geek I am jealous of the technology my children will grow up with. You can make the argument that technology always advances, and my children will feel the same way about their offspring, but I think the genesis of the Internet is a clear demarcation line in human history.
The rhetoric about cyberattacks is nearly deafening. It seems like my Twitter timeline blows up every day about cyber-this or cyber-that. Makes me want to cyber-puke. Since Mandiant pointed the finger at China everyone seems to be jumping on the bandwagon of tough talk and posturing.
The big ChoicePoint breach of 2004 was the result of criminals creating false business accounts and running credit reports on hundreds of thousands of customers (probably). Every major credit/background company has experienced this kind of breach of service going back decades – just look at the Dataloss DB.
It’s hard to believe, but my family and I have been in Atlanta almost 9 years. The twins were babies; now they are people. Well, kind of. I grew up in the Northeast and spent many days shoveling our driveway during big snowstorms. Our 15 years in Northern Virginia provided a bit less shoveling time, but not much.
The Nibble security blog had a very good post on Subverting a Cloud-based Infrastructure with XSS and BEEF. They essentially constructed an XSS attack to issue network infrastructure management commands without user knowledge.
A sports clothing retailer is suing Visa to recover a $13M fine for a potential data breach.
The suit takes on the payment card industry’s powerful money-making system of punishing merchants and their banks for breaches, even without evidence that card data was stolen. It accuses Visa of levying legally unenforceable penalties that masquerade as fines and unsupported damages and also accuses Visa of breaching its own contracts with the banks, failing to follow its own rules and procedures for…
We are big on Quick Wins at Securosis. Mostly because we know how hard it is to justify new technology (or processes or people), and that if you can’t show value quickly on a new project, every subsequent request gets harder and harder to get through. Until you have a breach, that is. Then your successor gets carte blanche for a honeymoon period to do the stuff you were trying to do the whole time.
It’s funny how you suddenly remember random conversations from months ago at the strangest times. I recall having breakfast with some of my pals at TripWire at RSA 2012 (yes, 13 months ago), and them peppering me about the vulnerability management market. Obviously they were shopping for deals, but most of the big players then seemed economically out of reach for TripWire. And there was nothing economically feasible I could recommend for them in good conscience.
As we discussed in Industrial Phishing Tactics, phishing is a precursor to many attacks in the wild. Phishing attacks are designed to get victims to click something, then to share the victim’s account credentials and download malware; and of course they leave a trail like everything else. Following that trail can help you prioritize remediation activities, identify adversaries, and ultimately take action to protect both your environment and your customers. But first you must be able to analyze…
In the immortal words of Jay-Z, you’ve got 99 problems but BYOD ain’t one of them. Colin Steele does a good job of putting the BYOD (and broader mobility) situation in proper context in You can’t solve BYOD because it’s not a problem