We already have some highly sophisticated weapons systems that use computer technology and electronics to do things on a battlefield undreamed of even a few decades ago. This does include robotic weapons systems. The important ingredient in all this tech is the presence of human control. At this point in time it still takes a human to drive these war machines.
But we are not the far from being able to create ...
Continue Reading →Occasionally I will write a book review for this blog, and then set up an Amazon link in a half-hearted attempt at “monetizing” my blog. Let’s just say I haven’t quit my day job just yet.
Here are some great books for coders, and they should be funny for coders and anyone who ever has used a computer program (the rest of us.)
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.08/28/2017 02:40 PM EDT Original release date: August 28, 2017
US-CERT warns users to remain vigilant for malicious cyber activity seeking to capitalize on interest in Hurricane Harvey. Users are advised to exercise caution in handling any email with subject line, attachments, or hyperlinks related to Hurricane Harvey, even if it appears to ...
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When I am investigating an email exploit, I will take a look at the email headers. Email headers in an email are a lot like the html code in a web site. This is information that the machines that create, send, and receive the email use for routing, and for providing other information about the message. As a human, we do not see the headers unless we specifically look for ...
NIST (National Institute for Standards and Technology) released Special Publication 800-53 version 4 recently, and it covers the shortcomings in privacy and security in the national power grid, water control systems, dams, oil and gas utilities and similar computer controlled systems. There are no coherent or enforceable standards for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems ...
Last year we took a look at the emerging changes to password policy that were coming from NIST. The final document is out, and the changes we looked at last year have pretty much made it into the final draft.
One of the sacred cows that was skewered was the “complexity requirement.” This is the requirement to use upper and ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Robots can crack safes faster than humans — and differently. We’re going to have to start thinking about robot adversaries as we design our security systems. From Wired via Schneier.
https://www.wired.com/story/watch-robot-crack-safe/
Over the past month, the Wordfence team has been tracking a ...
Continue Reading →I remember it as the “number sign” or the “pound sign.” Jeopardy contestants might know it is called an “octothorpe.” The symbol itself goes back to Roman times, and was used extensively in the telephone industry, appearing on touch tone phone keypads as a way to allow special dialing features.
First suggested by Twitter marketing guru Chris Messina as a way to group, organize, and follow an idea in the Twitter stream, it quickly became a social media staple used not ...
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The SANS institute released the results of a new survey recently, and found that cybersecurity professionals ranked phishing as the number one exploit this year. Phishing awareness training programs were seen by many as the best defense against phishing, spearphishing and whaling exploits. Something that was new this year was the reporting of so-called “malware-less” exploits that use “the built-in features of the operating system to turn it against itself without ...
