Bruce Scheiner lays out exactly what I’ve been thinking about the last week’s cyber attacks allegedly attributed to N. Korea. The first commenter nails it on the head when he says that big media will run with stories like these just to sensationalize for the sake of ratings. QFT:
Securing our networks doesn’t require some secret advanced NSA technology. It’s the boring network security administration stuff we already know how to do: keep your patches up to date, install good anti-malware software, correctly configure your firewalls and intrusion-detection systems, monitor your networks.
