09 August 2011

#Defcon: The lesson of #Anonymous? Corporate #infosec sucks

LAS VEGAS -- Anonymous has run up quite a score against corporations, governments and law enforcement agencies, but for all these warnings corporate executives are turning their heads from the real problem -- their network security is terrible, a panel of experts concluded at Defcon.

The particularly high profile attack against security firm HBGary by the hacker collective earlier this year caught the attention of C-level executives for a few weeks, but then they relaxed, says krypt3ia, a panel member, a security blogger and longtime infosec practitioner.

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