Posts tagged with the "application security" tag
CRASH Report Exposes Millions in Technical Debt
December 8, 2011 | 1 Comment This year has been marked by high-profile outages and security breaches at global organizations like Sony, Sega, RIM, Citi, RSA, Honda, the International Monetary Fund the International Olympic Committee and multiple airlines, not to mention the U.S. Department of Defense. What each of these have in common is they each …Read More
What We Don’t Know is Hurting Us
December 5, 2011 | 1 Comment Recently, @dangerroom posted about a computer virus infecting the software that manages the U.S. Air Force’s Predator and Raptor drones -- the ones that perform reconnaissance and attack insurgents in Afghanistan, Iraq and other hot spots. The software hasn’t prevented the drone program from continuing, but so far the Air …Read More
Microsoft Ducks Duqu
November 9, 2011 | 1 Comment November’s most popular day in the United States is arguably the fourth Thursday of the month – Thanksgiving Day. In the Tech industry, however, it is the second Tuesday of the month – yesterday to be exact – that garners heightened interest. The reason for the additional interest is that …Read More
Hacking the Heart of the Matter
November 1, 2011 | Be the first to comment! The issue of hacking in today’s society has gotten as serious as a heart attack – literally! In what seems like something that should be relegated to a bad action movie or the sinister deeds of some cartoon villain, researchers have demonstrated that hackers have the capability to send radio signals …Read More
Government Its Own Worst Enemy in Cyber War
September 23, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Ever a man ahead of his time, Albert Einstein once said, “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” Were he alive today, the only thing he likely would change about his statement would be how …Read More
Adding to the Cost of Failure
September 1, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Woe is Sony. Victimized by more than a dozen hack attacks earlier this year, most of them at the hands of the LulzSec group, which gained unauthorized access to more than 100 million customer data files, the gaming, media and electronics giant has faced massive lawsuits and reparation payments not to …Read More
Dropbox Drops the Ball
August 24, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Our society has a particularly annoying habit, one that’s not exclusive to any one specific walk of life, business or industry, nor is it one that we are likely to see our society give up anytime soon. The habit is known by several names, but is most commonly referred to …Read More