Dark Reading is part of the Informa Tech Division of Informa PLC

This site is operated by a business or businesses owned by Informa PLC and all copyright resides with them.Informa PLC's registered office is 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG. Registered in England and Wales. Number 8860726.

Database Security
Authentication
Mobile
Privacy
Compliance
Careers and People
Identity & Access Management
Security Monitoring
Advanced Threats
Insider Threats
Vulnerability Management
Comments
The Matrix at 20: A Metaphor for Today's Cybersecurity Challenges
Newest First  |  Oldest First  |  Threaded View
alphadata
50%
50%
alphadata,
 User Rank: Apprentice
4/27/2019 | 3:21:35 AM
Re: Wonderful, thoughtful essay
When The Matrix came out 20 years ago, the internet was still in its infancy, confined by the limits of dial-up modems, Netscape browsers and the startup discs that EarthLink and AOL tucked in mailboxes across the country. If you wanted to use the internet, you usually had to sacrifice your phone line, and those with constant busy signals were regarded as hopeless shut-ins, like a flannel-swathed

Sandra Bullock ordering a pie from Pizza-dot-net. To the extent that films were thinking about the possibilities of online life, they were usually defined by suspicion and terror, such as the VR corporate sabotage of Disclosure or sick allure of a chatroom IT security companies in dubai sadist in Dee Snider's StrangeLand. The landscape was changing, but all they could think to do was freak out and disconnect.
REISEN1955
50%
50%
REISEN1955,
 User Rank: Ninja
4/8/2019 | 1:29:08 PM
Re: I think you got it backwards
The final battle in the last Matrix is definate ransomware attack or DDoS attack, more liikely the latter.  Flood of dangeroius packets. 

 
nhacailixi88
50%
50%
nhacailixi88,
 User Rank: Apprentice
4/5/2019 | 10:45:16 PM
Re: I think you got it backwards
va
schopj
50%
50%
schopj,
 User Rank: Strategist
4/5/2019 | 4:37:35 PM
I think you got it backwards
While I think this article is very well written and the analogies work quite well to illustrate your points, in the Matrix however, the computer references are the opposite of your analogies.  The crew of the Nebbakanezzer ARE the hackers.  The agents, are anti-virus platforms and remote admin tools.  Agent Smith, once decommissioned, becomes a self replicating virus as he rebels against the the system that discarded him.  You hit the nail on the head of the Oracle being the AI and Machine learning algorithms, but in the Matrix, Neo is the insider threat, or perhaps the vulnerability itself, the result of an unbalanced binary equation, the 1 that balances out the 0, that one bug that the developers just couldnt get rid of.  
REISEN1955
50%
50%
REISEN1955,
 User Rank: Ninja
4/5/2019 | 12:38:39 PM
Wonderful, thoughtful essay
Your comments are spot-on and probable that more rules and comparisons exist in this series than touched upon, after all almost all cyber work involves a matrix of some kind or another.  Now, if we address IBM, eh, HAL9000 we come upon another variable: the computer system-network at self-fault.  That would be a writing task and as a reader " I have the greatest confidence in the mission." 


When It Comes To Security Tools, More Isn't More
Lamont Orange, Chief Information Security Officer at Netskope,  1/11/2021
US Capitol Attack a Wake-up Call for the Integration of Physical & IT Security
Seth Rosenblatt, Contributing Writer,  1/11/2021
IoT Vendor Ubiquiti Suffers Data Breach
Dark Reading Staff 1/11/2021
Register for Dark Reading Newsletters
White Papers
Video
Cartoon
Current Issue
2020: The Year in Security
Download this Tech Digest for a look at the biggest security stories that - so far - have shaped a very strange and stressful year.
Flash Poll
Assessing Cybersecurity Risk in Today's Enterprises
Assessing Cybersecurity Risk in Today's Enterprises
COVID-19 has created a new IT paradigm in the enterprise -- and a new level of cybersecurity risk. This report offers a look at how enterprises are assessing and managing cyber-risk under the new normal.
Twitter Feed
Dark Reading - Bug Report
Bug Report
Enterprise Vulnerabilities
From DHS/US-CERT's National Vulnerability Database
CVE-2020-25533
PUBLISHED: 2021-01-15
An issue was discovered in Malwarebytes before 4.0 on macOS. A malicious application was able to perform a privileged action within the Malwarebytes launch daemon. The privileged service improperly validated XPC connections by relying on the PID instead of the audit token. An attacker can construct ...
CVE-2021-3162
PUBLISHED: 2021-01-15
Docker Desktop Community before 2.5.0.0 on macOS mishandles certificate checking, leading to local privilege escalation.
CVE-2021-21242
PUBLISHED: 2021-01-15
OneDev is an all-in-one devops platform. In OneDev before version 4.0.3, there is a critical vulnerability which can lead to pre-auth remote code execution. AttachmentUploadServlet deserializes untrusted data from the `Attachment-Support` header. This Servlet does not enforce any authentication or a...
CVE-2021-21245
PUBLISHED: 2021-01-15
OneDev is an all-in-one devops platform. In OneDev before version 4.0.3, AttachmentUploadServlet also saves user controlled data (`request.getInputStream()`) to a user specified location (`request.getHeader("File-Name")`). This issue may lead to arbitrary file upload which can be used to u...
CVE-2021-21246
PUBLISHED: 2021-01-15
OneDev is an all-in-one devops platform. In OneDev before version 4.0.3, the REST UserResource endpoint performs a security check to make sure that only administrators can list user details. However for the `/users/` endpoint there are no security checks enforced so it is possible to retrieve ar...