Update the updates

Presented at Still Hacking Anyway (SHA2017), Aug. 4, 2017, 9:10 p.m. (60 minutes)

Much of today's technology is said to be disruptive. In most cases, this means that technology can turn around the winners and losers of an entire branch. But recent digital attacks have shown that technology can also disrupt our entire society rather easily. There are many reason for that, one of them being issues surrounding the deployment of patches. Installing the patches that eliminates vulnerabilities seems to be something that has the lowest priority. That has to change. We need to update the way we deal with updates. In this talk I’ll address some of updates we need to apply to the process of updating. #DeviceSecurity #NetworkSecurity #IoT

Presenters:

• Rejo Zenger
  Rejo Zenger is privacy advocate. He works as a policy advisor for the leading Dutch digital civil rights organization Bits of Freedom. The organisation fights for the protection of fundamental rights like freedom of speech and privacy on the internet. For Freedom Inc foundation he researches the use of automatic number plate recognition, drones and bodycams by the Dutch governmental institutions.

Links:

• https://program.sha2017.org/events/100.html

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