Several US government agencies shared a warning on 22 September 2020 with respect to foreign entities using disinformation to sow confusion and discord around the US 2020 election. While evaluating this alert, Thomas Rid highlighted two key passages: and: The central thesis of the document and the two highlighted passages Read more…
On 16 July 2020, the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), with support and contributions from the Canadian Communications Security Establishment (CSE) and the United State’s National Security Agency (NSA), released a report tying recent intrusions in vaccine research organizations (as well as other industries) to Russian-linked adversary APT29. Read more…
2020 has already been a WILD year to say the least – opening with the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, proceeding through multiple ecological crisis, and continuing with a historical pandemic (and all its implications for information security), we live in very interesting times indeed. And yet, we’ve only just begun! Read more…
My country, the United States, has experienced days of disruption and discord not witnessed since the late 1960s across multiple municipalities and regions. Adequately parsing and analyzing these events, their motivations, and what lasting impacts they may have will be the work for others. Instead, these chaotic events identify a Read more…
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread throughout much of the world, I’ve covered how this slowly unfolding catastrophe will impact the business climate of information security, why cost-saving reductions in network defense may be deeply undesirable, and how responses to certain actions in a pandemic landscape will be difficult Read more…
The obvious story as of this writing is the slow-motion catastrophe of the novel coronavirus referred to as COVID19. While the medical struggle around this pathogen is harrowing and full of heroes (and villians), another struggle has emerged more in line with the political and economic consequences of this disease. Read more…
Late 02 January 2020 (US Eastern time), the United States launched a strike outside Baghdad airport killing Qasem Soleimani, Iranian general and leader of the paramilitary Qods Force. General Soleimani was a despicable person responsible for promoting conflict and prolonging strife in various areas of the Middle East (among other Read more…
Note: This post will refer and link to allegedly classified programs leaked by Edward Snowden, and potentially others, in the past several years. If accessing this article from certain networks, readers are strongly advised to preview links before following them due to the possibility that such an action may be Read more…
One issue that came from my recent CYBERWARCON talk was an item of focus (or for others, limitation) when approaching the idea of what a “critical infrastructure attack” actually means. While I faced some (really good, topical) questions on my definition of “critical infrastructure”, a more public debate ensued over Read more…
On 24 November 2019, WikiLeaks posted an email, purportedly from a whistleblower on the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) team assigned to investigate the chemical weapons attack on the Syrian city of Douma. I will let readers find the original WikiLeaks post, but the story was promptly Read more…