An interesting article describing the direct (and not what you would necessarily expect) business cost of cyber security in relation to these new bugs.
Not sure if litigation is necessarily and answer that will help anyone with these problems.
Meet the new threat same as the old threat
One of the many prediction articles I suspect we will see in coming days.
The main message we can take away from this is that those wanting to attack systems will use new technology to help them do that, just as those that are wanting to defend systems from attack will use new technology to prevent those attacks. Nothing that startling revealed here, just the continuation of the arms race that has been going on for some years now.
Certainly a concerning future, but not a surprising one.
Original source for the article can be found here: https://blog.fortinet.com/2017/11/14/fortinet-fortiguard-2018-threat-landscape-predictions
More Regulation Please?
An interesting op-ed piece. While I wouldn’t necessarily say that regulation (government or otherwise) is always the answer (other than to bolster the compliance industry), there is a point to be made here.
Are we reaching a tipping point like that experienced after the Enron fallout where a more holistic and measure approach to this problem needs to be mandated?
A data breach today is less likely to be an annoyance and more likely to have potentially significant and devastating real world consequences. The hit list of recent events in this regard identified in the article clear demonstrates that the problem is just getting bigger.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/opinion/cybersecurity-breach-spectre-meltdown.html