Lessons cyberdefense may be able to teach us about managing Ebola

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Monday, October 20th, 2014
Lessons cyberdefense may be able to teach us about managing Ebola
We in the computer world are all too familiar with what we’ve long called “viruses,” the malware that infects our machines and networks.

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It’s been just two months since researcher Karsten Nohl demonstrated an attack he called BadUSB to a standing-room-only crowd at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, showing that it’s possible to corrupt any USB device with insidious, undetectable malware.
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