Computerworld UK ran an interesting article on how Deutsche Bank and HMRC are struggling to integrate Hadoop systems with legacy infrastructure. This is a very real problem for very large enterprises with significant investments in mainframes, Teradata, Grids, MPP, EDW, whatever. From the post:
Thanks to a heads-up from our Frozen Tundra correspondent, Jamie Arlen, I got to read this really awesome response by Elon Musk of Tesla refuting the findings of a NYT car reviewer, A Most Peculiar Test Drive.
As reported on Tom’s Guide, FireEye reports they have discovered a PDF 0-Day that is currently being exploited in the wild:
Rich here.
There are very few aspects of my life I don’t track, tag, analyze, and test. You could say I’m part of the “Quantified Self” movement if it weren’t for the fact that the only movement I like to participate in involves sitting down, usually with a magazine or newspaper.
So what hot trends in application security will you see at the RSA Conference? Mostly the same as last year’s trends, as lots of things are changing in security, but not much on the appsec front. Application security is a bit like security seasoning: Companies add a sprinkle of threat modeling here, a dash of static analysis there, marinate for a bit with some dynamic app testing (DAST), and serve it all up on a bed of WAF. The good news is that we see some growth in security adoption in every…
Major Update: I got a core fact incorrect, in a big way. Thanks to@ivanristic for catching it. It’s an obvious error and I wasn’t thinking things through. ECC is used at a different point than RC4 in establishing a connection, so this doesn’t necessarily affect the use of RC4. David Mortman seems to think it may be more about mobile support and speeding up SSL/TLS on smaller devices. My apologies, and I will leave the initial post up as a record of my error.
The Boss and I don’t get out to see movies too often. At least for the last 12 years or so. It was hard to justify paying a babysitter for two extra hours so we could go see a movie. Quick dinner? Sure. Party with friends, absolutely. But a movie, not so much. We’d wait until Grandma came to visit, and then we’d do things like see movies and have date nights. But I’m happy to say that’s changing.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Endpoint security remains predominately focused on dealing with malware and the bundling continues unabated. Now we increasingly see endpoint systems management capabilities integrated with endpoint protection, since it finally became clear that an unpatched or poorly configured device may be more of a problem than fighting off a malware attack. And as we discuss below, mobile device management (MDM) is next on the bundling parade. But first…
“Wait, didn’t I effing just patch that?” That was my initial reaction this morning, when I read about another Adobe Flash security update. Having just updated my systems Sunday, I was about to ignore the alerts until I saw the headline from Threatpost: Deja Vu: Another Adobe Flash Player Security Update Released:
This morning, not even thinking about security, I popped off a tweet on cycling:
I have been annoyed lately, as I keep hearing people write off cycling while ignoring the fact that, despite all its flaws, cycling has a far more rigorous testing regimen than most other professional sports – especially American football and baseball. (Although baseball is taking some decent baby steps).