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Makers of insecure software are the real cyber villains

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You’re not used to hearing such strong words at snake-oil conferences. But she said them in her keynote at Mandiant’s mWise conference – Jen Easterly, head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency of the US government. And not being one to take prisoners or do things by halves, she adds: “Even calling security holes ‘software...

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How CrowdStrike customers wihtin critical sectors ignore the obvious and follow the herd instinct of an industry … I’m just wondering why (at least in Germany) the faulty1 CrowdStrike update caused a whole series of critical infrastructures to fail. How do I have to picture the purchasing process of Crowdstrike customers?Purchaser to IT-manager: ‘But it says here in paragraph 8.6 of...

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