Is there an after one seems to wonder? Although the major hardware vendors have shipped fixes or new chips closing these vulnerabilities, new findings seem to appear every so often. One also wonders how the hardware vendors closed these vulnerabilities as some cases required a major architectural change, which could only be accomplished with new … More After Spectre and Meltdown – what now?
There is so much talk about cyberwar and advanced persistent threats. One can get really scared. However, if you look at the facts, you only have to follow the money. Or in other words answer the question, where can an attacker make the most bang for the buck. It is true that cyberwar has become … More Do we all WannaCry – or which threats should we expect?
We could start to vote for the security breach of the week. We would never be shy of nominees. What is worse however is that it does not make sense to vote on a corresponding security leak of the week. Recent analysis shows that it’s almost always failure to implement basic security settings. The hit … More Same old, same old
I had lunch with a colleague lately who was wondering what happens with all the stolen information from data breaches, where we have seen quite a few lately. Latest breaches included personal information like credit card data, identity data, and fingerprints… A research article on DLP products published in the July/August 2015 IEEE Security and Privacy magazine arrives at … More What happens with all the stolen data?
We seem to hear about a major data breach at a company on a daily basis. Either the media is reporting more or the number of publicly known attacks rises or both. What can we learn from these reports? It is always data and application that adversaries are after. Although this is a no-brainer, we … More Internet pillory – what we need to learn from the Ashley Madison hack
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