Report says high profile attacks could have been avoided easily.
Mitre, a US federal contract research laboratory, released a security analysis on Monday that addressed some of the high profile Data Breach incidents over the past year. It says that the attacks were carried out using mostly well-known software flaws, and could have been prevented with adequate testing.
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The hackers that did most of the high profile attacks would immediately post that they used some known exploit from 10 years ago or whatever. Mitre really earned their money...I wonder how many million dollars they charged to rewrite the blog of Lulzsec.
And the BP oil disaster could have been avoided had they used common sense safety devices... Once again, fix what needs fixing the first time, correctly & then you don't waste time having to do it again & again & again... Except they didn't even do it the first time.
They're like sniveling children that don't want to clean their rooms. So they cram everything under their beds, into their closets and cosmetically straiten the shelves to make it look like everything is in order so they can out to play... But then you open the door to put clean clothes in & BOOM!!! Somebody gets hurt when the stuff comes sailing out.
People complain that there are too many governing bodies in place at the moment. If that's the case, why is this kind of loose canon disrespect for the consumer & willful negligence being allowed to go on? If it isn't allowed, then someone wasn't there to catch them. This is punishable folks, plain and simple.
