Category: avoidable vulnerabilities
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But will we see cyber listed as a feature in medical advertising?
Another place vulnerabilities are published. I wonder how it’ll go with crossover items. “Linux kernel flaw bricks insulin pump?”
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Equal Expectations for Equal (Non-Person) Entities
I don’t hate robots. I think that any new technology that tries to show up today has to be built with some by this time fairly obvious cyber defenses. This means, first, that the vendor has to get it that we might care. We the customers have a right to have an expectation of thorough…
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Rescue an XP laptop: load Linux today
It’s mid-2016. XP has been end-of-life for over a year or something. What’s that mean? It means there’s approximately a 100% chance that any given XP system is exploitable. It definitely means the system has exited the vendor’s maintenance window. Either way there are few if any reasons to justify use of XP from a…
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Party like you’re on a 1990’s network
It’s 2015. And yet some vendors are still shipping network-attached devices like… well, at least like it’s 1999, if not before. We’re talking about Telnet. In 2015, do not use Telnet. It’s unencrypted and it can leak passwords to an adversary. This is not a news flash. Telnet was really cool back in the day.…