The Sony Breach Demonstrates the Importance of Moving Beyond Perimeter Defense

Re:The Sony Breach Demonstrates the Importance of Moving Bey... by tim333 on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @12:59PM (#8852029)

I'm guessing you are correct that there would be less problem if they used Mac and Linux. For whatever reason Microsoft does not seem to prioritise security that much. Just the fact that you can infect the system by clicking on an email attachment is a bad idea. On a Mac you have to click on the attachment and type your system password which makes it much less likely for a secretary to get malware on the system by clicking an attachment. The technical difficulty of implementing that is pretty much nothing. It seems more a question of attitude and not taking it seriously. I'm reminded of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6978626 where the guy took a virus course. Better designed systems seem the way forward.

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Re:The Sony Breach Demonstrates the Importance of Moving Bey... by graycat on Thursday January 08, 2015 @12:57AM (#8855176)

If on Windows and in Outlook I click on an email attachment that has extension EXE, WHAT happens? You are saying that Outlook will run the EXE? Really??????

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Re:The Sony Breach Demonstrates the Importance of Moving Bey... by tim333 on Thursday January 08, 2015 @10:21AM (#8856727)

Ah no - not what I meant. Just that you don't need to enter a password.

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Re:The Sony Breach Demonstrates the Importance of Moving Bey... by tim333 on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @05:40PM (#8853832)

It's funny - I knew I'd be downvoted but I'm not a Mac fan boy especially - I've got a pc and a Mac and find Apple annoying in many ways but I just think it's a fact that the security engineering is better on some systems than others. I see Apple now have over 40m people on Mavericks/later and have sold over 800m ios devices but have way less than 1% of the malware. It's hard to explain that by just being a small target.

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