2010 Will Be the Year of Sandboxing Apps 203
Trailrunner7 writes "In a guest editorial on Threatpost, Mac hacker and security researcher Dino Dai Zovi writes that 2010 will be the year that software vendors get religion about sandboxing untrusted data in desktop apps. 'Instead of the usual top ten lists that are all-too-common with predictions for the new year, I have just one: 2010 will be the year of desktop applications handling untrusted data in sandboxed processes, and it will be about time. The largest Internet security threats now arrive through malicious web pages or e-mail attachments. This is because attackers are opportunistic and these are the weakest links especially because they easily pass through every firewall. Security is not and never was about SYN packets, it is about data: the software attack surface that attacker-controlled data interacts with and what sensitive data the attacker can get a hold of if they can exploit vulnerabilities in that software.'"
Windows 7 (Score:4, Funny)
Great, I just upgraded from XP to Windows 7 and now all my apps have to be run in XP Mode's virtual machines. Thanks Microsoft. :)
Re:And the year of.. (Score:2, Funny)
If you want to leave a lot of openings in your sandbox for malicious software to work through, you have to expect things to slow down.
Re:Wow.... Welcome to Java applets, 1995... (Score:1, Funny)
Sandboxes are a tried and true idea, they work well. It's about time
So, sandboxes will see as much success as Java desktop apps? What?
Re:Already here. It's on my family PC.. (Score:5, Funny)
Whoa! Your daughter is off the rails, and your soft approach to parenting is not helping.
Install linux on her system right now, and don't give her the root password until she's 18!
Re:This is the year of wishes being predicitons (Score:5, Funny)
I predict this will be the year of Kari Bryon on the desktop!
Re:Already here. It's on my family PC.. (Score:2, Funny)
[dont-take-it-personal][joke-to-easy-to-resist]
"Much like her mother"? she has poor taste in men?
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Re:Old news? (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, but a big bully came and stomped on all our sand castles. Now that we've grown up a little, it's time to try again.
Awesome! (Score:5, Funny)
I was just handed a memo from a collection of all major software and hardware vendors on Earth, saying that security will be put ahead of profits from now on! It was delivered by a Unicorn, who got here on the gumdrop express via the rainbow highway.
Re:Isolate (Score:4, Funny)
This doesn't really sound like the solution most people looking for.