Everybody in IT knows it is a dangerous world out there, filled with an endless variety of cyber attacks aimed at compromising and taking advantage of security flaws. But there is still a persistent lack of awareness of specific threats and how best to confront them, according to Rob Havelt, director of penetration testing for Trustwave, an international provider of information security and compliance solutions.
The irony, he says, is that it is not necessarily the newest, scariest malware or hack technique that can compromise an enterprise. There are some very cool examples, like hacking into the security cameras so they could point them, zoom in and read passwords: