The Specter of MS17-010

The vulnerability MS17-010, patched on 14 March 2017 but rising to prominence with the Shadow Brokers leak of an exploit called ETERNALBLUE in mid-April 2017, has fueled multiple information security headaches. First and among the most prominent was the global WannaCry ransomware event in May 2017 (two months after the Read more…

Making the Case and Its Implications

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…