Is Russia Poised to Retaliate Against Sanctions With Cyber Attacks?
Posted on: 07 Aug 2014
Way last April, a time when the world seemed a more peaceful place, Leon Panetta and Richard Clarke were quoted warning of impending Russian cyber attacks in the wake of…
NSF Cybersecurity Ideas Lab: Some Ideas Worth Considering
Posted on: 03 Aug 2014
This past February I participated in an amazing three day innovation and ideation lab pulled together by Farnam Jahanian, Assistant Director, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, National…
General (Ret.) Keith Alexander Pivoting to the Enterprise
Posted on: 31 Jul 2014
According to a report in Foreign Policy, former NSA head Keith Alexander has ideas. Ideas he wants to patent and turn into a business. Admittedly, Alexander has had exposure to…
TrapX Researchers Discover Attack Embedded in Logistics Devices
Posted on: 16 Jul 2014
This series of articles and the accompanying videos are part of an ongoing project to illuminate the people, products, and vendors that make up the IT security industry. The vendors…
Wall Street Is Worried About Tom Clancy Scenario
Posted on: 09 Jul 2014
The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), an industry trade group for banks securities firms and asset managers, is worried about catastrophic attacks against their members, Bloomberg reported today. Bloomberg…
Is there Another NSA Leaker? Updated
Posted on: 03 Jul 2014
This morning a partial analysis of the NSA’s XKEYSCORE code was published in Germany. Jacob Applebaum, an evangelist for the The Onion Project (TOR), was one of the authors. The…
PayPal Apparently Enforcing Non-existent Laws
Posted on: 01 Jul 2014
According to one of the founders of ProtonMail, a secure email startup, PayPal had suspended their account. A PayPal representative reportedly questioned the legality of an encrypted email solution. ProtonMail…
Are Former Government Cyber Experts Worth Their Consulting Fees?
Posted on: 30 Jun 2014
Congressman Alan Grayson made waves last week when he sent letters to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association(SIFMA), the Consumer Bankers Association, and the Financial Services Roundtable assailing former…
Various Email Security Solutions Post Snowden
Posted on: 25 Jun 2014
As predicted (by me) email encryption solutions are proliferating rapidly. All it took was a threat actor to appear on the scene. The first time I met Mark Rasch we…
NATO Should Stand Down From Apocalyptic Cyber Fears
Posted on: 20 Jun 2014
Tallinn 2007 was indeed a wake up call for NATO. The massive amounts of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against websites, communications, and even Estonian Parliament members’ fax machines, arising…