Tag: New York Times

  • Anatomy of a NYT Piece on the Sony Hack and Attribution

    There is a lot of back-and-forth over who hacked Sony Pictures Entertainment. For a not-so-brief summary, here is an extensive timeline to catch you up. I am going to drill down on a single point as it is both fascinating and disgusting. Using a single article that is heavily influencing people around the world, and…

  • The curiously creeping value of the iOS vulnerability…

    [This was originally published on the OSVDB blog.] The market for vulnerabilities has grown rapidly the last five years. While the market is certainly not new, going back well over ten years, more organizations are interested in acquiring 0-day / private vulnerabilities for a variety of needs. These vulnerabilities cover the gambit in applications and…

  • Rebuttal: Ponemon on Network Breaches [Richmond/Ponemon]

    [This was originally published on attrition.org. This is a rebuttal piece to “Security Professionals Say Network Breaches Are Rampant” (2011-06-22) by Riva Richmond (@rivarichmond) of the New York Times.] The Ponemon Institute does not command much respect in many InfoSec circles. Like other ‘research analysis’ firms (e.g., Gartner), their reports rarely provide any insight or information that hasn’t been known for…