Apocalyptic Vulnerability Percentages - FUD 101

I’ve spent a long time in the trenches and recently I’ve been getting more and more jaded - if that’s even possible. I’m sure at least once a week someone in the office hears me utter the nearly completely useless comment, “everything’s broken anyway, who cares?” Now I think it’s time I actually explain myself. In the last decade and a half that I’ve been in interested in webappsec I’ve had the opportunity to talk to nearly every self proclaimed expert in the industry and more and more I’ve been able to get them to say or admit that “everything is broken.” I think what they mean is that if an attacker takes any system and apply enough resources against it they will get into it, break it, take it off line or whatever it is they want to do. I’ve talked to a number of people regarding the percentages of sites they are able to... [read full story]                    

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