Autumn is the “hacking season,” when hackers work to exploit newly-disclosed vulnerabilities before customers can install patches. This cycle gives hackers a clear advantage and it’s time for a paradigm shift. Each year, when the leaves start changing color you know the world of cybersecurity is starting to heat up. This is because the cyber industry holds its two flagship events — DEFCON and BlackHat —over the same week in Las Vegas in late Summer. Something akin to having the Winter and Summer Olympics back-to-back in the same week, these events and other similar ones present priceless opportunities for the world’s most talented hackers to show their chops and reveal new vulnerabilities they’ve uncovered. It also means that each Fall there’s a mad race against time as customers need to patch these newly revealed vulnerabilities before hackers can pull off major attacks — with mixed results. A good example began in August, after researchers from Devcore revealed vulnerabilities ...
