Your security mirages
Yes, I was hit last week. Forensics are in progress. I got doxxed, too.It has made me realize that most of systems security is an illusion. Here are my favorite alternate realities:1. Everything is safe behind the firewall.Ever heard of UBFWI—as in User’s Been Fooling With It? While IPD/IPS and firewall networked-technology has improved so vastly, there’s nothing like a user with an infected laptop to bring in a lulu.2. Obscure operating systems never get hit. Hackers only go for the gold with Windows.Here, let me laugh out loud and roll on the floor. Mine was an obscure server version on an obscure branch of an obscure BSD limb. Listen to the sound of lunch getting eaten: mine. Chomp, chomp, burp.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here