State of Cybercrime7 Des 2016

A Technologist’s Hippocratic Oath

Last month, there was a thought-provoking article on programmers who were asked to do unethical work on the job. We often talk about balancing security with precaution and paranoia, but I wondered about the balance of ethics and execution.

As always, I was curious to hear the reactions from the Inside Out Security Show panel – Mike Buckbee, Kris Keyser, and Mike Thompson.

Here’s what they had to say:

Thompson: “The downside in technology is that shortcuts lead to lapses in security…In healthcare, there are tight regulations…but who is making that decision in the technology industry?”

Buckbee, “We talk about different kinds of crime like property, violent crime, and white collar crime. There’s cybercrime as well. People have different acceptable models in these different areas. [For instance] when it comes to SQL injection, you probably don’t think that adding a few additional characters to a URL is a felon criminal trespass, but it totally could be…”

Keyser, “I drew a parallel between engineers that work in the physical space and engineers that work in the digital space. And engineer or somebody who builds a faulty house with a poor structure or horrible locking system, there would be repercussions for that if the house collapsed…I don’t think people have realized the parallels between that and the digital space.”

Click play to see what else they had to say! Additional responses include: thoughtful insights to the most recent San Francisco MUNI hacker that got hacked, potentially unnecessary malware fixes, as well as the latest hacking tools and exploits.

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