When “Need to Share” trumps “Need to Know,” WikiLeaks – here we go.
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Archives for November, 2010
Twelve Word Tuesday: WikiLeaks is to Sensitive Data as Termites Are to Wood
by John Pescatore | November 30, 2010 | Submit a Comment
App Fatigue Edges Droid Towards A More Secure App Store
by John Pescatore | November 29, 2010 | Submit a Comment
It is like when you put a goldfish in a bathtub – “I’m free!!” shouts the goldfish. Life can be pretty good, security-wise, if you can keep all your users in a bathtub. “Smartphone Security Perspective“ eWeek reports that Google is making a number of changes in its app store, including adding some contents ratings [...]
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Twelve Word Tuesday: Giving Thanks to the Sources of InfoSec Job Security
by John Pescatore | November 23, 2010 | Submit a Comment
People and software – can’t be secure with them, can’t live without them.
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Madoff Had a Great Brand but Very Cloudy Financial Assurances
by John Pescatore | November 18, 2010 | 1 Comment
I am the user of cloud services and my customers are a user of me and often they use me to satisfy their customers. And the cloud service providers are users of technology and services, and so it goes. I did an Analyst User Roundtable here at the Gartner App something or other conference yesterday [...]
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DNSSEC Starting to Snowball
by John Pescatore | November 17, 2010 | 3 Comments
DNSSEC is one of those boring infrastructure upgrades, sorta like a recall to your car where they fix some flaw that doesn’t sound all that ominous. Some time out of your schedule to sit in the waiting room watching the blurry TV on the wall, read an old issue of People magazine and soon you [...]
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Twelve Word Tuesday: Security Through Obscurity Only Works if You Are Not a Target
by John Pescatore | November 16, 2010 | 3 Comments
Apple mojo: Stuxnet creams obscure PLCs, nothing goes after numerous Macintosh vulnerabilities. Massive Mac OS X Update Shatters Illusion of Security – Network World
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Feminist Friday: Bingo Playing as a Gateway to Falling for Internet Scams
by John Pescatore | November 12, 2010 | Submit a Comment
Gartner sometimes holds conferences in Las Vegas and I often have to walk through the slot machines areas. There is an eerie similarity between the look on people’s faces when they pull the slot machine arm hoping for triple cherries, and the look at PC user’s faces when they click on an email hoping that [...]
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Defining the “Advanced Persistent Threat”
by John Pescatore | November 11, 2010 | 16 Comments
Advanced threat – any attack that gets past your existing defenses. Persistent threat – any successful attack that goes undetected and continues to cause damage. Advanced persistent threat – any attack that gets past your existing defenses, goes undetected and continues to cause damage. The Morris worm in 1989 was an advanced threat, but then firewalls were [...]
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Thoreau Would Have Wanted You to Block Access to Facebook
by John Pescatore | November 10, 2010 | 1 Comment
On this day in history, just a mere 59 years ago, the first direct dial transcontinental telephone call was made in the US. About 100 years before that, the telegraph was starting to spread across the US and across the Atlantic with much fanfare. However, some weren’t convinced of the value of this new form [...]
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Twelve Word Tuesday: What Ever Happened To Shovel Ready?
by John Pescatore | November 9, 2010 | Submit a Comment
Quantitative easing, economic upticks – make sure 2011 security budget requests get aggressive.
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