ISOC Paper Targeting Border Gateway Protocol Routing And Trust
via Ryan Polk - policy advisor at the Internet Society (ISOC), comes this outstanding paper displaying admirably clear thinking applied to the challenge of security-in-internetwork-routing (especially when that security is encapsulated in BGP Routing). Enjoy!
DerbyCon 2018, Marcello Salvati's 'IronPython... OMFG' →
Join The Club
Via Dan Goodin, Security Editor at Ars Technica, comes news of OpenBSD, Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu and Red Hat Linux flaws - in existence for an estimated 23-months (and just discovered).
'An advisory X.org developers published Thursday disclosed the 23-month-old bug that, depending on how OS developers configure it, lets hackers or untrusted users elevate very limited system rights to unfettered root.' - via Dan Goodin, Security Editor at Ars Technica
DerbyCon 2018, zerosum0x0's 'MS17-010?' →
The Data Industrial Complex
Enough is Enough, my friends... Interestingly, Apple Inc.'s (Nasdaq: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook apparently agrees. And, whilst speaking at the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (ICDPPC), Mr. Cook - in his usual exacting manner, elucidates both the truth and evil of the modern day Data-Industrial Complex that trades in your data. Today's Must Watch video. Hat Tip to Jon Brodkin, writing at ArsTechnica.
DerbyCon 2018, Josh Pitts' 'I Can Be Apple, And So Can You' →
Rothman's Data Security Reset, What To Target And Protect
via the inimitable Mike Rothman, comes this tour de force research effort targeting of all things - Data Security. In which, the Securosis organization takes on what to protect and preserve. Today's Must Read.
Cybering the Rus
Yup. A new information operation - this time, from our Cyber Command, turning their attention to The Rus, and their own operatives. Via Julian E. Barnes, writing at the venerable New York Times, comes this piece, ostensibly discussing a sanctioned military-run information operation targeting the Russian apparatchiks running their own information operation against the world, as they have for years...