Since late February 2022, the world has been transfixed by Russia’s increasingly brutal invasion of Ukraine. Among other items, the conflict represents the largest of its kind in Europe since the Second World War. Along with hostilities, Russia’s invasion induced significant outflows of refugees fleeing conflict in targeted urban areas. Read more…
The steadily unfolding COVID-19 pandemic continues to unleash chaos and uncertainty in tandem with the disease’s impacts on human health. In just the past few days, total US new unemployment numbers for the past two weeks increased by over 10 million people, the price of crude oil continues to crash, Read more…
At the time of this writing, times are weird and they are only going to get weirder. Since initial identification in China in late 2019, the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has swept through most of the world. From prompting the virtual lockdown of hundreds of millions for weeks in China through Read more…
Throughout the roiling (and often tiring) discussion over the release and disclosure of “offensive security tools” (OST – previously addressed here), one disadvantage is constantly referenced to show the harm of publicly-available hacking tools and techniques. Put most simply, individuals cite how many organizations either have little or no security Read more…
Cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, Etherium, etc.) is quite possibly the most damaging, least useful, most reprehensible technological development of the past 20 years – which is definitely saying something given the rise of “social media”. While cryptocurrency advocates continually espouse benefits such as transactional anonymity, increased access to financial services, and financial Read more…
The past several weeks have been an exciting time in the realm of cyber security – and especially the more narrow, less understood field of (potential) “cyber war”. Starting approximately two weeks ago (writing on 25 June 2019), there began a bombardment of news, with reports that: The XENOTIME activity Read more…
Many public discussions on information security tend to identify or claim the existence of an “information security community”. On its face, this seems a rather innocuous term that merely designates a collective of individuals dedicated toward relatively similar goals or ends – yet when delving a bit deeper, the term Read more…
When reporting on cyber-attacks, articles and media frequently (if not exclusively) focus on the damage or immediate result: how many machines were impacted, how much data was compromised, or what (if any) physical consequences emerged from the event. The latter is especially the case with ICS-focused attacks, from Stuxnet to Read more…
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) released a powerful – and incredibly detailed – indictment of 12 named individuals working for the Russian GRU. While many will see this as similar to the indictment of several Chinese nationals for spying in 2014, the cases seem far different in my Read more…