We have more attorneys per person in America than any other country on the planet. This causes problems, because there are too many attorneys chasing too few ambulances, and not enough real attorney work to go around. It has long been my contention that the attorneys we elect to public office, in the Legislatures, Courts, and Executive branches of our governments are the ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Saint Patrick’s Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick is a cultural and religious celebration held on 17 March, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick (c. AD 385–461), the foremost patron saint of Ireland.
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Today we finish our story on the history of cyber warfare.
Attributed to Edward Snowden. The target was the National Security Agency of the United States. Snowden was a former CIA employee, who, while working for Booz Allen Hamilton as a contractor to the NSA, copied and leaked NSA information, particularly the computer exploits that the NSA used abroad and ...
Continue Reading →Today we continue our report on the history of cyber warfare.
Cyber attack attributed to the United States, Israel, Germany, and possibly Great Britain. Confirmed by General James Cartwright in November 2012. Target was Iran, particularly the Nuclear Program facility at Natanz. The excellent documentary Zero Days covers this operation in detail.
Since the Natanz facility was not ...
Continue Reading →Cyberwarfare is becoming a more prevalent form of cyber-attack, and one that may be hard for an individual or a small business owner to understand or defend against. Of Friday we took a look at the definition and practice of cyber war. This week we will review the history cyberwar incidents, the attackers, the targets, and the outcome of the best known ...
What is a cyber warfare attack exactly, and what is it that separates it from a garden variety cyber attack? When does a cyber attack cross the line into actual warfare? Is it a cyber attack launched by a nation-state or other political or quasi-political entity against the resources of another nation-state? What separates cyber war from actual armed conflict? The answers are ...
If your business accepts credit cards for payment, then your a subject to the regulations of the Payment Card Industry. This is known as PCI-DSS Compliance. PCI compliance company Security Metrics recently released an infographic that shows the main compliance failures that lead to credit card breaches in 2017. Here are some of the startling take-aways:
As long as we are on the subject of election rigging and tampering, it is notable that Congress has finally weighed in on the subject of insecure and hackable electronic voting machines. According to a recent TechDirt article, “A new bipartisan bill has been introduced, called the Secure Elections Act, that would actually ...
The press has been relentless lately in its coverage of Russian cyber-espionage and disinformation campaigns on Facebook and other social networks prior to the last US Presidential campaign. But is Russia the first to engage in election rigging on this sort? Hardly. We thought that looking at the state of cyber-espionage as a tactic in international relations might be interesting, and we were right. It turns out that cyber-espionage is ...
Since Equifax leaked credit and identity information on ALL of us last year, I have been in a foul mood about the clueless and technically inept C-level corporate executives who are responsible for these breaches. Throw the bums in jail!
Well, a law working its way through Congress may do just that. For the first time executives may be facing not just ritual termination, and shaming in the press, but actual ...
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