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Older Cyberthreats Still A ThreatWhat’s old is still new, in cybersecurity. While hackers change their methods with the times, they still rely on trusted old vulnerabilities in our software and hardware. In an article on GCN.com, William Jackson cites the Global Security Report from Trustwave, released at the Black Hat Federal Briefings in Washington. According to the report, attackers continue to use old vulnerabilities to compromise our computer systems, while companies focus more on countering threats coming in via social networking and cloud computing. The report was based in Trustwave’s analysis of 218 incidents response investigations and nearly 1,900 penetration tests in 48 countries last year. Assistant secretary of cybersecurity and communications at the Homeland Security Department, Gregory Schaffer, said at the conference that top executives are still filing to make information security part of their basic policies. In a keynote address he said, some of the issues talked about a dozen years ago are still being discussed today, but not among people who don’t do cybersecurity for a living. Jackson writes that penetration tests on external networks discovered vulnerabilities, the top 10 of which dated back to as early as 1979 (using default or easily discovered authentication credentials). Most dated at least to the 1990s. To read the article, please click here: |