Tag Archives: breach
Is Encryption Evil or Just Not Worth It?
September 24, 2018 – 6:00 am
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This is a strange question for an InfoSec professional to pose, don’t you think? But it’s not so far-fetched as it may seem. Take, for example, the common assertion that most cyberattacks are at the application layer level. Whenever this is the case, then hijacked customer accounts, say, allow…
It’s the Culture … and Dead Canaries
January 4, 2016 – 6:00 am
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It appears that Volkswagen’s internal auditors “… found no evidence to suggest that members of the executive board or supervisory board were involved in the diesel fraud …” according to an article “VW Says ‘Culture’ Flaw Led To Crisis” by William Boston, Hendrik Varnholt…
Beating Around the Proverbial Cybersecurity Bush
October 13, 2014 – 6:00 am
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If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times … until we put real teeth into cybersecurity enforcement and insist upon serious personal legal consequences for those at the top, we won’t see improvement. We’ve beaten around the bush for far too long. How many more breaches,…
Security in the Dark
December 6, 2011 – 6:00 am
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I attended a roundtable recently at which someone mentioned that, in their experience, those familiar contractual requirements requesting third-party service providers to tell their customers about security breaches within a short time frame (within three hours, say) are often not conveyed to…
US Drones Hack: It’s The Same Old Story