Brent Hladik

I am particularly sceptical with Facebook’s strategy considering the recent sham it was exposed to with selling data. I guess making it more social may not be an effective way of demonstrating ethicality. The best way is to make information not social, but rather secure. The article says that ‘There’s a design focus on making sure users can easily identify and find the most important security tools’. This would actually be great for marketers and advertisers to use security tools, but not sure how beneficial this is for consumers.

Hi Brent,
Thanks for sharing your views. WordPress in fact also has many other vulnerabilities. I have personally used it and though it is widely preferred for web application and search development, its security practices are not strong enough to prevent such attacks and this was quite obvious as I read the article. There has to be a lot of stricter procedures that needs to be followed before accepting plugins from users

Bent,
I won’t be surprised with this number that shows how many websites are infected with SQL injection attacks. I believe these big umber reflects the number of different reasons why people attack sites:
– Money: The goal is collects revenues from people after injecting them with viruses
– Ability to collect sensitive information.
– Ability to damage other organizations or people IT resources in the goal of causing hams that can lead them to lose business or even personalities.

great post. I have friends who use this app or something of this sort sue to encrytion. More people do not use the standard SMS messaging on their phone due to no encryption. We see lots of encrypted things get uncrypted before and we shouldnt be surprised by it happening here.

the vast amount of tools listed in this article was massive. But of the 4 trends were interesting. As a programmer I thought it was interesting how cybersecurity deployment being a software based model. This is for control, visibility, and flexibility. The other 2 trends that struck me were how Israel is becoming the Cyber Silicon valley and its due to how Israeli cybersecurity startups have come to dominate the innovation.. The other two trends are what we learned in class and relted to AI and the steps hackers take. This article referred to the steps as Cyber Kill Chain contains seven links: reconnaissance, weaponization, delivery, exploitation, installation, establishing command and control, and actions on objectives.

Its important that so much of this Russian hacking into the Presidential election is speculation. Nothing has been proved therefore its theories, claims, or accusations. People wat to blame Russia due to Putin and Trump relationship and they isolate a company and vendor. Its a shame that the media has taken their frustrations on a copany: Kapersky Lab.

Brent,
That’s an interesting article for sure. It has practically becoming very concerning to trust banks. The recent attacks on Australian banks too has put up a question to raise i.e. Whom should we trust to safeguard our hard earned money? The thing to actually see is how soon can banks overcome this crisis and put an end to malware attacks

Brent,
There will be always new ways to attach people and organizations. The biggest question would be, do these organizations such as bank do the right things to protect us? I am assuming the answer is no, Until now days, these companies don’t really care about building strong IT security departments, they don’t really invest on building strong IT architectures that can fight to protect consumers data.
Thank you for the article, it’s really interesting.