I have one question
Open source software is available for public means at the reach of anyone
Having a security engineer to hardened it is good. But do you think 80% it
will be secure.
There can be chances that some codes went unnoticed or hidden.is there a
possibility?
A highly secure n/w will be 80% secure
no s/w or h/w s 100% secure.
On 22 Mar 2015 22:40, "Loganaden Velvindron" <loganaden_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 5:55 PM, chitz <chittra.03_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> http://www.cnet.com/news/fridge-caught-sending-spam-emails-in-botnet-attack/
> >
> > The attack sent out over 750,000 spam emails, in bursts of 100,000
> emails at
> > a time, three times a day, with no more than 10 emails sent from any one
> IP
> > address, making them difficult to block. Over 25 per cent of the emails
> were
> > sent from devices that weren't conventional computers or mobile devices.
> It
> > is the first documented case of common appliances being used in a cyber
> > attack -- but that doesn't necessarily mean it was the first time it
> > occurred, and it certainly won't be the last.
>
> If you look closely at those embedded devices you will noticed how
> much of their core code is based on Open Source software :-)
>
> You could trick those devices if you have malicious javascript code
> running on a machine within the same network. e.g laptop.
>
> I'm not saying that Open Source is not secure. You still need a
> security engineer who will analyze the firmware, and think of ways of
> hardening it.
>
>
>
>
> --
> This message is strictly personal and the opinions expressed do not
> represent those of my employers, either past or present.
>
Received on Sun Mar 22 2015 - 18:52:05 PST