Twelve Simple Security Tricks
Stefan Friedli · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2015
I’m generally not very surprised about how long I’ve been working in information security. I can’t help but notice that times do indeed change, even if it’s just ten years. In 2005, I published an article on ARP Spoofing in Swiss IT-magazine itbusiness [1] which still came out in print back then. I admit, the subject of ARP Spoofing wasn’t cutting edge back then, but today it’s definitely old news. If anything, the topic comes up out of nostalgia and not because people are actually worried about the effects of local man-in-the-middle attacks. Back then, information security was a topic that was interesting pretty much exclusively to companies. Today, in the age where smartphones are always online and the age of the Internet of Things dawns, it’s a topic that everybody must think about.