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Security Leftovers: Dominic White, 'DevOps' and Microsoft

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 24th of September 2019 10:44:10 AM Filed under
Security
  • South Africa’s renowned white hat hacker

    SensePost CTO Dominic White is one of South Africa’s best-known white hat hackers and has become the face of cybersecurity for many people.

    White’s love for computers started in school when his mother bought him a second-hand computer from one of their tenants.

    “I immediately tried to plug it all in and get it turned on. I soon realized I had no idea what I was doing, but I wanted to figure it out,” he said.

    He did figure it out, and quickly realised that high school computer science presented many opportunities for mischief.

  • How DevOps professionals can become security champions

    Security is a misunderstood element in DevOps. Some see it as outside of DevOps' purview, while others find it important (and overlooked) enough to recommend moving to DevSecOps. No matter your perspective on where it belongs, it's clear that security affects everyone.

    Each year, the statistics on hacking become more alarming. For example, there's a hacker attack every 39 seconds, which can lead to stolen records, identities, and proprietary projects you're writing for your company. It can take months (and possibly forever) for your security team to discover the who, what, where, or when behind a hack.

    What are operations professionals to do about these dire problems? I say it is time for us to become part of the solution by becoming security champions.

  • Nine words to ruin your Monday: Emergency Internet Explorer patch amid in-the-wild attacks

    Microsoft today issued a rare emergency security update for Internet Explorer to address a critical flaw in the browser that's being exploited right now in the wild.

    Redmond says the vulnerability, a scripting-engine memory-corruption bug designated CVE-2019-1367, can be abused by a malicious webpage or email to achieved remote code execution: that means Windows PCs can be hijacked by viewing a suitably booby-trapped website, or message, when using Internet Explorer. Malware, spyware, and other software nasties can be injected to run on the computer, in that case.

    Discovery of the flaw, and its exploitation in the wild by miscreants to commandeer systems, was attributed to Clément Lecigne of the Google Threat Analysis Group. The programming blunder is present in at least IE 9 to 11.

    Such flaws are not uncommon, and Microsoft typically patches anywhere from 10-20 browser and scripting engine remote code execution bugs each month with the Patch Tuesday bundle. Because they allow remote code execution with little or no user warning or interaction, Redmond considers such bugs to be critical security risks.

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