Unsupervised Learning: No. 195

Here's the new MITRE 2019 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors. Memory corruption bugs are huge right now. More

There's a ton of recent DDoS activity that's leveraging IoT devices for UDP amplification attacks. Specifically, the WS-Discovery service (WSD) is being used because the response to request ratio is so large (from 43% to 15,000%). More

There's a lot of chatter out there about Snowden due to his new book coming out, the NSA suing to keep him from making money off of it, him saying he'd like to come home, and him reiterating that he was just trying to do the right thing. Oh, and him saying he's never cooperated with the Russians. This whole situation makes me cautious of anyone with a singular and strong opinion about this, including myself. In 2016 I wrote a short piece about my opinion, and I am pretty much still in the same place with it. In short, if you think he's a hero you're probably wrong, and if you think he's a traitor you're probably wrong. He seems to be some combination of these two things, and from day to day, article to article, and book to book, I simply can't tell how much of which. Book

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