In the past 12 to 15 months, attackers have made a massive shift to attack applications. Automated patching started making it harder to find new vulnerable systems, so they went after applications that users are just not patching.
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American corporations are being riddled by (computer) attacks they are being defended very badly.Alan Paller
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It turns out that the vast bulk of the federal information security money is spent on documenting these systems, not on securing or testing them against attacks. Most agencies are spending so much on the paperwork exercises that they don't have a lot of money left over to fix the problems they've identified.
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Alan Paller, director of the SANS Institute in Bethesda, Md., isn't so optimistic about how the new money would be used, however. My concern would be the skill with which Washington consultants and IT vendors in particular might package every pet project as 'security-enhancing,' ... If there were a tough, rational culling process ... I'd be a fan.
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