For hype, focus on the threat; for security, focus on the vulnerabilities. (By the way, here’s an alternate view of the cause of the Brazilian black-out)
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Archives for November, 2009
Twelve Word Tuesday: 60 Minutes, Mike McConnell and the FBI Say The World Has Already Ended
by John Pescatore | November 10, 2009 | 1 Comment
Consumer-grade IT: Facebook/MySpace Coding Flaws
by John Pescatore | November 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
Most of the discussion on “opening up to social networking” seems to focus on the simplistic problem of allowing access from work or blocking it. That’s an easy one – businesses and government agencies will allow access, generally sooner rather than later. The real issue is what security controls need to be added to make [...]
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Is Google Android The Same “Most Secure Operating System” That Windows XP Was Supposed to Be?
by John Pescatore | November 4, 2009 | Submit a Comment
Eweek published a puff piece promoting the security of Google’s Android operating system that is starting to show up on some mobile phones. It read like a rip and read job from a Google marketing brochure: 1 – not really valid – we’ve said open source code gets more secure, more quickly but it is [...]
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Twelve Word Tuesday: Openess Good, Newness Bad
by John Pescatore | November 3, 2009 | 1 Comment
Transparency plus inspection is the friend of security, freshness not so much.
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The Security Risks of Consumerization Hit Home for US Congress
by John Pescatore | November 2, 2009 | 5 Comments
I live in the Washington DC area and much Beltway buzz about the Washington Post article on Tiversa’s discovery of a House ethics report openly available on a peer to peer music stealing file sharing network. The first reaction, of course, was to blame a cyber-attack, likely launched by the Chinese or maybe the North [...]
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