Dennis Fisher talks with Nate Lawson of Root Labs about the proliferation of crypto flaws in Web applications and the market for hardware security bugs.
Dennis Fisher talks with Nate Lawson of Root Labs about th
e proliferation of crypto flaws in Web applications and the market for hardware security bugs.
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The bugs rate 10 out of 10 on the vulnerability-severity scale, thanks to the ease of exploitation.
As just one symptom, 83 percent of the Top 30 U.S. retailers have vulnerabilities which pose an “imminent” cyber-threat, including Amazon, Costco, Kroger and Walmart.
Three critical security bugs allow for easy privilege escalation to an administrator role.
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