It would seem from news accounts that the increase in the number of new vulnerabilities and security issues in devices, software and systems is escalating out of control. Consider the significant vulnerabilities and security issues reported in just the past two weeks: 

• DDoS attach on Dyn, impacting Twitter, Amazon and much of the internet
• Dirty COW, privilege escalation vulnerability impacting almost all UNIX kernels
• Flash vulnerability allowing attackers to gain system control 

Some weeks ago, Steve Gibson, speaking on the Security Now program, mentioned a “sublime” vulnerability he called Flip Feng Shui, a somewhat obscure exploit of a known weakness in DRAM memory, and not one that most people, probably Gibson included, would worry much about. This week, the same vulnerability has been discovered in a variety of Android devices, and is apparently being exploited.

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