Tag Archives: Patching
Security Metrics, Recency Bias and Availability Heuristics
October 31, 2016 – 6:00 am
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I “recently” came across an article by Tom Chatfield with the title “The Trouble with Big Data? It’s Called The ‘Recency Bias,’” which is available at http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160605-the-trouble-with-big-data-its-called-the-recency-bias The article was published on June 5,…
It’s About Availability and Integrity (not so much Confidentiality)
July 23, 2012 – 6:00 am
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I have frequently contended that the more important aspects of security are availability and integrity, not confidentiality (the old C-I-A triad should be A-I-C in order of importance). That is not to say that confidentiality and privacy aren’t extremely important—they certainly are. But in…
PCI DSS Position on Patching May Be Unjustified
June 27, 2008 – 6:00 am
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Verizon Business recently posted an excellent article on their blog about security patching. As someone who just read The New School of Information Security (an important book that all information security professionals should read), I thought it was refreshing to see someone take an…
PC World Knocks Apple Security
May 11, 2007 – 6:26 am
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In 10 Things We Hate About Apple, PC World writes: 7. Give Me a Sign Does anyone want to tell us when the next Mac OS X software updates will hit? What security vulnerabilities Apple is working on fixing? In April, Apple released a patch that plugged more than two dozen vulnerabilities–with…
Unofficially why 49/50 WordPress blogs are vulnerable: App Security and Dev