by John Pescatore | January 28, 2011 | 1 Comment
I guess while many of us are at the RSA Conference, we will have to tune in each night to see how IBM’s Watson computer is faring on the Jeopardy TV show. But, you know: I bet 8 out of 10 human Jeopardy winners fall for phishing attacks and use “password” as their password…
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by John Pescatore | January 26, 2011 | Submit a Comment
The High Assurance Platform program at NSA sees Trusted NAC as a key Trusted Computing technology, especially to detect and mitigate unmanaged endpoints – basically, the guest networking problem many in the commercial world have been dealing with for quite some time. Now, in the commercial world the logo would be more like a maitre [...]
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by John Pescatore | January 25, 2011 | Submit a Comment
New Regulation: Security Toy Justification! Soon: Feed Me! Later: Shovel in reports
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by John Pescatore | January 24, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Network World reports that Tiversa has found sensitive data on peer to peer networks that later on shows up on WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks denies any active role, says all the data it publishes comes from “sources” who send the information to WikiLeaks. This is mostly one of those “inside baseball” kinda things – to the enterprise [...]
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by John Pescatore | January 20, 2011 | 2 Comments
A good piece in Network World by Ellen Messmer points out one of the major risks of consumerization – consumer-facing vendors tend not to take vulnerabilities in their products as seriously as enterprise vendors. Mattel doesn’t rush out patches for the Barbie PC, Hasbro isn’t concerned about denial of service risks with the Easy-Bake Oven. [...]
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by John Pescatore | January 18, 2011 | Submit a Comment
Oracle has an “Unbreakable” Linux Kernel, 28 other products considerably more fragile. Oracle info here.
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by John Pescatore | January 17, 2011 | Submit a Comment
A piece in the New York Times points to US and Israel as being behind the Stuxnet worm, as a targeted cyber attack against Iran’s nuclear weapon program. Stuxnet exploited many known vulnerabilities, and some day zero vulnerabilities, to deliver a very sophisticated, targeted payload to try and damage industrial machinery used in many power [...]
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by John Pescatore | January 13, 2011 | Submit a Comment
From Network World: Police in Taiwan used a set of spectrum analyzers to catch at least three people suspected of cheating on an exam by monitoring them for mobile phone signals, a first case of its type, the equipment maker said on Wednesday. Officers used three FSH4 analyzers specially configured by the German manufacturer Rohde [...]
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by John Pescatore | January 12, 2011 | 2 Comments
I once made the mistake of trying to use the Gartner Magic Quadrant metaphor with my kids, along the lines of “the upper right is jobs you love where you earn a lot of money, the lower left is jobs you hate and don’t make any money – that’s why you need to do your [...]
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by John Pescatore | January 11, 2011 | 1 Comment
One lunatic with semi-automatic weapons emphasizes calling cyber-attacks terror is shameless huckstering.
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