A very good article about the current state of security on the internet. This shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone in the IT or Security industry. If it does, you haven’t been paying attention.
Speaking to The Wall Street Journal in an interview published yesterday, FBI executive assistant director and cyber czar Shawn Henry said that despite recent arrests of alleged hackers “Sabu” and others, “we’re not winning.”
Source: Cnet
OnGuardOnline.gov is a good site with online security information that you can pass on to your non-technical friends and family members.
For many years I have been fielding questions from family and friends about the various dangers online. I don’t want to scare these people with the gory details of just how bad it is. I often wished that there was a site that took the time to relly spell out, in simple English, what people should know and what they can to to protect themselves. Today I was listening to Steve Gibson’s Security Now podcast #288 and he talked about this site and it’s simple presentation of exactly this information.
It appears to be a well thought out site covering a lot of different topics. I read several of the articles and even played some of the trivia games. One specific question in the wireless hackers game worried me when it was clear they were expecting a technically correct yet misleading answer. I was surprised when their explanation spelled out my concerns about the nature of the answer. This shows the care that the authors took in striking a balance between accessible and technically correct. I will be recommending this site to friends and family members who are savvy enough to be concerned about security or at least should be.
