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Quote of the week
So, it's no wonder that hackers can just plug something new in and
nobody notices. As long as it doesn't infect five million
residential banking customers then nobody is going have a
description of the suspect. That is the reality of hacking today,
and it has nothing to do with advanced persistent threat. It has to
do with the enterprise and the complete LACK of control you have
over the endpoint. When security is limited to the network
perimeter, you are not in control. Oh, and what a breath of fresh
air the mobile device is. A new pile of software, mostly social
media, that is directly connected to thousands of strangers that
are not your employees, communicating in real-time with processes
running within your defensive wall. In effect, you now have
thousands of potential multi-homed routers to 3G-space from your
network that don't belong to you.
-- Greg Hoglund(Log in to post comments)
Quote of the week Posted Sep 29, 2011 12:54 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Ah yes, APT. Now we can finally answer the question: "Debian: Threat or Menace?" Threat! :)
Quote of the week Posted Sep 30, 2011 16:45 UTC (Fri) by kirkengaard (subscriber, #15022) [Link]
Seriously? HBGary's Hoglund makes LWN's Security QOTW?
Quote of the week Posted Oct 3, 2011 14:49 UTC (Mon) by robbe (guest, #16131) [Link]
Yes, that's funny. But while we are quoting him, this one from the same source is even more up-front:
> F. Thank God for APT - a board room level term that we can all use to cover
Quote of the week Posted Oct 3, 2011 19:10 UTC (Mon) by knobunc (subscriber, #4678) [Link]
FWIW APT appears to be "Advanced Persistent Threat".
Quote of the week Posted Oct 4, 2011 7:19 UTC (Tue) by alecs1 (guest, #46699) [Link]
Yes, that's what it refers to; it gets more clear if you go down to that drawing on the reference article.
The first comment may refer to the Debian SSL fiasco.
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