The Biggest Security Vulnerability: The Wetware – Input Output
If you try to keep up on the latest in security developments, then you know those three dreaded words: Zero-day threat. It has become a commonly-used phrase, one that makes for great headlines.
A zero-day exploit is one where there is no time – zero days – between the time the vulnerability is discovered by hackers and when the first attack takes place. There is usually no defense against these security vulnerabilities since no one has invented a patch or other fix – or even knew, until today, that one was necessary.
So you’d think that with all the screaming headlines on tech news sites about new zero-day exploits found in the wild, along with reports about how Microsoft (or whichever company) is scrambling to find a fix, that these security breaches would be a major source of computer security problems IT has to deal with on a daily basis.
And you’d be wrong, says Microsoft.
Twice a year, the company releases…..
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Should Organizations Retire FTP for Security?
Web hosting firm DreamHost made headlines this past weekend when it opted to reset the file transfer protocol (FTP) and shell access passwords of its customers after uncovering a possible data breach. But it wasn’t just the prospect of the company adding its name to the list of organizations affected by data breaches that had some talking.
Instead, the move led to Adam Bosnian, executive vice president at password and identity management vendor Cyber-Ark Software, to question whether or not it’s officially time to put FTP on the shelf for good. more….
via Should Organizations Retire FTP for Security? | SecurityWeek.Com.