From Mary Brown | September 17th, 2009
Riva Richmond reports on the latest SAN research which indicates that organizations are still focused on mitigating risks related to operating system threats while hackers are focused on application vulnerabilities for commonly used applications like Adobe and Office and are, in particular, focused on leveraging web development vulnerabilities.
How would you recommend that organizations do a better job of prioritizing their risk mitigation efforts, assuming you agree with SANS and their partners who participated in this research?
Share your ideas.
Tags: applications, hackers, mitigating risks, Research, Web development
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From Mary Brown | May 4th, 2009
I read an article that Paul Marks wrote recently about Dr. Stephen Beeby, an engineer at the University of Southampton, UK. Evidently, Dr. Beeby has received funding to continue his research on using ear-generated sounds, as a form of authentication. Research is reportedly in the early stages, yet there is already speculation on the Internet as to how to defeat it based on a description of the theory.
The idea that ears carry passwords is, in my opinion, questionable. Still, what is the likelihood that one day we will be using ear-generated sounds as a means of proving who we are? Your thoughts?
Tags: authentication, ears, noise, Research
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