I have noticed a security vulnerability on the iPad – fingerprints! Each time I use my iPad I have to type in my four digit security code. This leaves four fingerprints telling you very clearly what four digits I use. Now you only have to guess the order – there are only 16 possible combinations. Unless I wipe the screen each time this makes it really easy to hack my iPad (if it was lost or stolen).
- The Wandering CIO
I have felt the current anti-virus approach is unsustainable and less secure than we think for some time. But recent news events have really driven home the issues. (I personally think anti-virus is dead…yep, dead)
Some points to ponder:
It’s less secure than we think because of the “zero-day” problem that nobody really likes to talk about – under a signature-based approach I can only detect what is in the signature file. An antivirus vendor has to “capture” a virus to create a signature – and then distribute the updated signature to me before I am actually protected. So we think because we run AV software we are protected – we aren’t. (continue reading…)
Interesting Tidbits