Black Hat 2019: Addressing Supply-Chain Risk Starts with People, Microsoft Says
Hardware, software, services and people make up supply-chain risk — but the latter should be the guiding focus.
Tara Seals
About
Tara Seals has nearly 25 years of experience as a journalist, analyst and editor in the communications and technology space. Prior to Threatpost, Tara was the North American news lead for Infosecurity Magazine, and spent 13 years working for Informa (formerly Virgo Publishing), as executive editor and editor-in-chief at publications focused on both the service provider and the enterprise arenas. A Texas native, she holds a B.A. from Columbia University, lives in Western Massachusetts with her family and is on a never-ending quest for good Mexican food in the Northeast.
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The vulnerability is a decade old with a public exploit, yet remained unpatched in one of the phone giant’s most popular models.
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A pair of reports released at Black Hat mark the huge shift away from targeting consumers.
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Academic researchers carry out attacks on high-end commercial devices as well as narrowband IoT sensors.
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