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Security Roundup: Build Security In Edition

  • David Litchfield lets rip at Oracle in “Complete failure of Oracle security response.” Such questions need to be directed to more vendors than just Oracle.
  • Andrew Jaquith writes about “Hamster Wheels of Pain” in security company presentations.
  • The Seattle Times has an article on those new fancy, radio controlled cockpit doors, “Glitch forces fix to cockpit doors.” Fascinating. I wonder if that’s made it into the aviation failures database? (Via Infosec news):

    Boeing and Airbus insist there was no immediate danger. The mechanic had to be standing in precise spots with a particular walkie-talkie tuned to a specific frequency and with a certain signal strength.

    There’s lots of stereotypical good detail: The vendor insisting it would be hard, an independent expert insisting it’s easy…

  • Simson Garfinkel has a good presentation on RFID security issues that he gave to an OECD working group.
  • Lastly, each item in this roundup relates to a failure to include security in the design and manufacture of new systems. DHS has just launched “Build Security In,” a new website to share information about how to include security in your software plans from the start.

4 comments on "Security Roundup: Build Security In Edition"

  • beri says:

    Speaking of security, I wonder how many high tech terrorists read this tidbit someplace and ran out to get some walkie-talkies and start experimenting. That’s what I would call “too much information.”

  • Adam says:

    You mean someplace like their aircraft maintenance manuals? If we don’t see how systems fail, we can’t learn to build them securely.

  • Note to new DHS webmaster…I registered using ‘xxxxx’, but the login page form only allows up to 15 chracters max input at ‘j_username’…..
    p.s. yeah I got around that;-)

  • DM says:

    Interesting presentation from Simson. I have to disagree with his final page though. I don’t see any of the security issues stopping businesses from using them or frankly the privacy problems stopping most customers from using them either at least not here in the US.

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