Check Point Software Technologies recently revealed a flaw in millions of routers that allows the devices to be controlled by hackers. The company detected 12 million Internet-connected devices that have the flaw. The vulnerability, which Check Point dubbed “Misfortune Cookie,” can be found in the code of a commonly used embedded Web server, RomPager from AllegroSoft. A system attacker can exploit it to take control of a router and use it to steal data from both wired and wireless devices connected to a network.
We often hold up CEO's as some kind of superhuman breed. CEO's are supposed to have highly specialized knowledge and skills to guide their companies through the tricky reefs of today's market conditions. Far more often they are men who through an accident of fortunate promotion have ended up in positions of corporate power that they really don't merit.
An executive that has his passwords insecurely emailed to him, is a fine example of this. It's hard to imagine anything more stupid or irresponsible in today's I.T. security environment, especially for a corporation like Sony with thousands of jobs and billions of dollars on the line.
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Misfortune Cookie Crumbles Millions of Security Systems
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. December 29, 2014 12:09 PMCheck Point Software Technologies recently revealed a flaw in millions of routers that allows the devices to be controlled by hackers. The company detected 12 million Internet-connected devices that have the flaw. The vulnerability, which Check Point dubbed “Misfortune Cookie,” can be found in the code of a commonly used embedded Web server, RomPager from AllegroSoft. A system attacker can exploit it to take control of a router and use it to steal data from both wired and wireless devices connected to a network.
An executive that has his passwords insecurely emailed to him, is a fine example of this. It's hard to imagine anything more stupid or irresponsible in today's I.T. security environment, especially for a corporation like Sony with thousands of jobs and billions of dollars on the line.