Conflicker/Downadup shows that patching must still be done – old-style attacks didn’t disappear. (See more wordy previous related post here.)
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Archives for February, 2009
Twelve Word Tuesday: Attacks Will Still Find Your Missing Patches
by John Pescatore | February 10, 2009 | Submit a Comment
Good Czar Choice Coming, Security Advances ‘R Not
by John Pescatore | February 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
The new administration has announced their choice for a Cybersecurity “czar” and it is a good choice – Melissa Hathaway, who has played a high profile security role at in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for a while. One major concern I have is I hope she doesn’t try to point to the [...]
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A Buggy Week for Microsoft
by John Pescatore | February 6, 2009 | Submit a Comment
Yikes – Bill Gates sure has changed. Just a few years ago he was the driving force behind Microsoft starting to finally take security seriously and now he is releasing bugs at a technology conference! At about the same time that billg was tossing mosquitoes at conference attendees, researchers were finding bugs in the UAC [...]
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Cultivating Anvils and Culling Anchors From Your Security Stuff
by John Pescatore | February 5, 2009 | Submit a Comment
George Carlin died a while back and one of my favorites of his was his bit about all our “stuff.” I read a nice piece in the Wall Street Journal last week on an overseas reporter returning home and going through all his stuff to “separate out the anvils from the anchors.” I really liked [...]
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Twelve Word Tuesday: The Best Defense is Iron Shoes to Prevent Shoot Self in Foot Damage
by John Pescatore | February 3, 2009 | Submit a Comment
Damage from self-inflicted wounds will always be ten times that of attacks. (Inspired by the recent problems at Google and Comcast)
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