What the Equifax Hack Tells Us About Cybersecurity Today - Linux Security Podcast Ep. 6

Equifax was the victim of one of the highest profile hacks in history. More than 147 million people's financial data was exposed. Surprisingly, the Equifax CEO blamed the entire incident on a single engineer failing to patch a known vulnerability in Apache Struts. Anyone versed in security knows this scapegoating is ridiculous. The Struts vulnerability might have been the point of entry, but the failure was an over-reliance on patching as a security strategy. Atomicorp's Mike Shinn breaks down the Equifax hack, how it happened and what it says about how security cultures based on patching will face similar fates.