Security through Obscurity … is it always applicable?

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“Security through Obscurity”

Wikipedia definition:

Security through obscurity is a controversial principle in security engineering, which attempts to use secrecy to provide security. A system relying on it may have theoretical or actual security vulnerabilities, but its owners or designers believe that the flaws are not known, and that attackers are unlikely to find them.

What (I think) is wrong…

Flock: Community versus Security?

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What is Flock?

Source

Flock is focused on fundamentally evolving the browser, bringing a refreshing new approach to how people use and participate on the web and simplifying social and web-based applications by bringing them one step closer to the user and integrating them directly into the browser.

The interesting part starts here…

Vulnerability Management: Good Practices

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We live in the age where technology is involved in almost every business process and threats such as vulnerability exploitation are an unfortunate reality.

In this post I’ll be pointing out some factors one should keep in mind when looking to manage software vulnerabilities.

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