Recently the ISSA (Information Systems Security Association) released the results of a survey they took in December 2018. There is a shortage of qualified cybersecurity professionals; not enough people are entering the field, and those with ten or more years of experience may be leaving the field due to stress, lack of a career path, and ineffective mentoring.
The survey ...
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According to the Second Amendment of the US Constitution, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” This is not a story about guns. This is a story about Kali Linux and other hacker tools. This is a story ...
This month marks the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web. It is also the 50th anniversary of the Apollo space flight missions to the moon and back. More recently, the successful unmanned mission by the Space-X Crewed Dragon command module to the International Space Station, we finally see space flight becoming a business as opposed to being strictly a governmental exercise.
The underlying protocol of the web, and really all ...
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Russia has announced plans to temporarily “disconnect” itself from the global Internet. What does this mean for Russia, its citizens, and the rest of the world that is connected to the World Wide Web?
Russia is not the first country to disconnect the Internet. In January the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo turned off its Internet during the presidential elections there. ...
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The North Korean Cyberwar Operations group is known variously as Lazarus Group, Guardians of Peace, or Hidden Cobra. A few of their notable achievements include the 2014 attack on Sony Pictures inspired by the satirical Seth Rogan film “The Interview, ” the $81 million cyber bank heist against Bangladesh’s central bank, and the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack.
In June 2017, US-CERT sent a Continue Reading →
I was trying to do some research on encryption and discovered that due to “lack of funding,” government websites are down. This is crazy. Costs the same to run this page as it does to leave the whole site up! Trump shuts down the government – solution – spank the taxpayers!https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips197/fips-197.pdf
Was the election of Donald Trump the result of the successful application of “active measures” by Russia? Did the massive Facebook and Twitter campaigns by the Russians change public opinion enough in the final days of the Presidential campaign to move the needle and help Trump win?
According to Retired KGB Maj. Gen. Oleg Kalugin, former Director of Foreign ...
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It seems that hardly a week goes by without some new cyber-attack being attributed to Fancy Bear, Cozy Bear, Grizzly Steppe, or some other cute-sounding Russian hacker collective. One the one hand, we have the DHS, FBI, and US-CERT attributing these attacks to the Russians. There are others, including those working in the cybersecurity profession, that are suggesting that the attackers are not agents of the Russian government, but merely ...
We have entered the age of cyber war. Believe it or not, cyber war operations are going on right now in many places across the globe. Most of these operations are covert, and often hard to attribute directly to a particular nation-state or adversary.
Marc Cancian has written a gripping report titled Coping with Surprise in Great Power Conflicts. ...
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The best defense is a good offense. Especially if you are “defending forward.” So what does that mean?
The US Cyber Command has a new leader. Lt. Gen. Stephen G. Fogarty assumed command of U.S. Army Cyber Command on June 1, 2018. His mission is to make Cyber Command more aggressive in its response to cyber-attacks on assets in the United States. ...
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