Schneier on Security

Clive Robinson • July 9, 2011 10:47 PM

OFF Topic,

@ Bruce,

This might be of interest,

http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20110707_4226.php

Apparently a report by Federal inspectors has uncovered numerous weaknesses in Homeland Security Department systems that house information regarding critical U.S. networks.

Also it appears that there have been embedded security flaws found in technology from the China-US supply chain, according to Greg Schaffer under secretary of the DHS,

http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20110707_5612.php

With regards your book, an uptodate example,

Apparently Apple iPhones and iPads have a critical security flaw discovered by a jailbreaker. The jailbreaker has come up with a patch but (for the obvious reason) it’s only available to those with jailbroken Apple products.

This has caused atleast one “security expert” to change their view and recomend that users jailbreak their phone….

http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/07/06/jailbreakme-hackers-expose-gaping-security-hole-in-iphones-and-fix-it-only-for-jailbreakers/