A story on information security risks that appeared in National Defense Magazine.
This is a popular culture piece written for the now defunct Upstart Magazine. It is a first person perspective from a 1996 hacker conference that I attended.
Each year, I get numerous requests from the media to discuss events surrounding the DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas. In this story, the Financial Times spoke to me about the role that WhiteHat hackers play in the security community. I am still not a fan of security through obscurity.
The Guardian in the UK was one of several media outlets that ran with stories inspired by my DDOS editorial in 2000.
Coauthored with Brian Houghton and Neal Pollard, this is the follow-up to our “Toaster” paper. Written in 1997, it was exclusively circulated within the U.S. government, but was later made available to the general public.
Coauthored with Brian Houghton and Neal Pollard, this paper won the 1996 Sun Tzu Art of War Research Award and has been published by the National Defense University Press, Terrorism and Political Violence Journal, and Jane’s Newsletter.
This editorial was written shortly after the Distributed Denial of Service attacks in 2000. It describes the emerging issue of legal liability associated with poor security practices. In 2002, we actually have courts taking action in this critical area. While I think due diligence will be a key motivator for information security, the fact that [...]
The real exposure to information warfare or cyberterrorism attacks exists within the private sector. To that end, I said the following when interviewed by CNN in January 2000: “If you look at the likely targets of an attack by an adversary against the United States, it’s not going to be the military computers. It’s going [...]
The following are unproofed, unedited speaking notes from my presentation at InfoWarCon II in Montreal, Canada on January 18-19, 1995. It is interesting to read them today and see how little has changed.
In February of 2000 I was interviewed for Future Presence, which is a publication of the Arlington Institute. Given the length of the interview and the breadth of material covered, I think it makes for a very interesting read.
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