Can we stop calling this terrorism, and call it what it is – warfare!
The day after ISIS claimed responsibility for the acts of war carried out in Paris by trained members of the ISIS military, members of the hacker collective Anonymous declared war on ISIS.
Continue Reading →“On Friday 13 November our country France was attacked in Paris for two hours, by multiple terrorist ...
This comes under the heading of “know who you are doing business with.” Web hosting company 000webhost.com was breached this week and over 13 million customer records were stolen and posted for sale on the Internet. The data includes customer names, emails and passwords in plaintext (meaning the passwords were unencrypted). Storing passwords in an unencrypted form should be a criminal act in ...
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My first question is why is some nitwit without the most basic concept of cybersecurity or operational security in charge of the CIA. Sorry to those of you I offend, but if your email ends with aol.com it tells me you are very old and not computer savvy. And people who still use the AOL application in 2015 are basically still riding ...
Back on Sept 18 we criticized presidential candidate Jeb Bush, FBI Director James Comey, and other politicians for complaining that encryption was making it too hard to fight the “evil doers” and suggesting that some sort of “master key” or “backdoor” was needed by law enforcement and intelligence services to do their jobs. We of course disagreed.
Around the same time ...
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Here are a couple of recent stories where a large information technology companies refused to turn over information to the government.
The first involves Apple, which was given a wiretap order to turn over certain communications between two alleged drug dealers on the iMessage platform. Apple wasn’t so much refusing to comply as pointing out that this messaging service is encrypted end to ...
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Back in August, presidential candidate Jeb Bush came out against encryption. Makes it too hard for law enforcement to figure out what the “evildoers” are up to, he says. I agree that encryption makes it impossible to figure out what the Wall Street executives who are funding every presidential campaign, by the way, are inventing now to ruin the American economy again and take a third trip into looting the 401K and ...
Today is the 14th anniversary of a day that I will never forget. I was driving home from dropping my son off at school, and listening to the radio when they started reporting that a plane had flown into the World Trade Center. I made it home in time to see the second plane crash into the second tower on television. Still gives me chills as I write this.
Coincidentally, two ...
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Seems like everybody wants to run for President this year. Now John McAfee has entered the race. Yes the same McAfee that founded the McAfee security software company. Not saying he is my candidate, but this statement of his sums up exactly what is wrong with the NSA spying on everybody in order to save us for terrorists.
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Hacker movies are one of my favorite genres, and have been for a long time. Go figure. One of my favorites from the “olden days” is the 1992 movie “Sneakers.” In this movie Robert Redford and his merry band of cybersecurity testers are tasked with the recovery of a mysterious “black box” which basically can solve for any type of encryption that was in use at that time. At one point in the movie the blind hacker discovers ...
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It has been two years since Edward Snowden revealed to the world the programs behind the largest mass surveillance programs ever mounted by a government against its own citizens. The fact that it was taking place here, in the land of the free and home of the brave was a sad day for the constitutional republic knows as the United ...