Teen Nearly Killed us All

[kandrathe]

The real question to ask ourselves is how do we know any network(or computing environment) is secure? Is it really safe, or are we just too ignorant to know how it can be compromised? All to often I think the later is the real answer, but the people in charge of the security would have to admit ignorance. I think most people would like to believe they are smarter than they actually are, especially in their chosen profession. In a recent publication by CERT, they highlight some of that risk in a neat graph. The available tools are getting more sophisticated such that the attackers need to be less so, even to where a 16 year old kid can get himself into some big trouble by having just enough knowledge to be dangerous.