Re: OT: Sony's security principles

2011-05-11 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 10 May 2011 at 11:04, Erik Goldoff wrote: > I agree with you, the percentage will be tiny ... but I personally stopped > buying anything Sony years ago with the DRM/Rootkit events. +1 -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/ ~ Fin

Re: OT: Sony's security principles

2011-05-10 Thread Jonathan Link
Which illustrates that 1) consumers should always use credit cards if they have them, paying off the balance every month, and 2) even when credit cards are compromised there's very little action taken by the banks to the irresponsible merchants, because they're literally printing money from their c

RE: OT: Sony's security principles

2011-05-10 Thread Erik Goldoff
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 10:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Sony's security principles On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Andrew S. Baker wrote: > I suspect that many more will be caught in the next 9-15 months.   Then,

Re: OT: Sony's security principles

2011-05-10 Thread Andrew S. Baker
For more evidence of this theory, see: TJ Maxx *ASB *(Professional Bio ) *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... * On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Andrew S. Baker > wrote: >

Re: OT: Sony's security principles

2011-05-10 Thread Jonathan Link
You forgot [2] [2] I probably won't be, though. *sigh* On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Andrew S. Baker > wrote: > > I suspect that many more will be caught in the next 9-15 months. Then, > we > > *might* see a bit more proactivity in that

Re: OT: Sony's security principles

2011-05-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Andrew S. Baker wrote: > I suspect that many more will be caught in the next 9-15 months.   Then, we > *might* see a bit more proactivity in that area.  Might. Let's see how many people stop buying Sony products or playing their Sony PlayStation games because of

RE: OT: Sony's security principles

2011-05-10 Thread Erik Goldoff
! ' From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 6:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Sony's security principles Too many. (In some area of negligence, whether firewall, IPS, patch management, access control, etc) Because they haven&

Re: OT: Sony's security principles

2011-05-10 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Too many. (In some area of negligence, whether firewall, IPS, patch management, access control, etc) Because they haven't been caught. Yet. I suspect that many more will be caught in the next 9-15 months. Then, we *might* see a bit more proactivity in that area. Might. *ASB *(Professional

OT: Sony's security principles

2011-05-10 Thread James Rankin
Apologies to anyone who has already seen this on FD.but it still makes you wonder how many more companies behave like this http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Sony-Networks-Lacked-Firewall-Ran-Obsolete-Software-Testimony-103450/ -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if y