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Cyber Security Myth: More Alerts Doesn’t Mean More Security

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onShore Security’s Chris Johnson wrote in his entry for MSPblog about a common misconception in cybersecurity.

“Many people assume that technology should be doing all of the work when it comes to security (i.e. more alerts = less risk). While technology is a vital part of a robust security posture, it shouldn’t stand on its own. Essentially, blinking lights and shiny objects don’t make you more secure, nor should it be what you base your security service offerings on.”

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onShore’s Ryan Thoryk demonstrates Meltdown

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Spectre and Meltdown are a pair of newly discovered cyber attacks that “exploit critical vulnerabilities in modern processors”. These programs, which can attack PCs, mobile devices, and even cloud-based machines, seek sensitive data in the memory of other running programs. In particular, Meltdown penetrates the barrier between user applications and the operating system, allowing a program (the exploit, in this case) to access the memory of other programs, including the OS. Software patches against Meltdown and Spectre have been developed, but are reported to be buggy and could potentially cause problems. [Read more…]

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