Out of respect to the original blog, my comments on this article can be found by following the link below the excerpt. These are important issues and we should be examining and debating them in detail. “As of yet, there is no definitive narrative of the virus that hit the U.S. drone fleet at Creech [...]
Misha Glenny’s TED talk entitled “Hire the Hackers” was sent to me about a dozen times today. I was reminded of the excerpt below taken from my 1995 thesis. Reviewing it after all these years, it is not perfect, but does raise some important points and the central theme still rings true. Step Seven: Use [...]
Interesting revelation. One major red flag associated with this worm was the fact that folks were claiming it got distributed widely via removable media. Turns out that might not be the case… “As first reported on July 15 by KrebsOnSecurity.com, Stuxnet uses a vulnerability in the way Windows handles shortcut files to spread to new [...]
A few interesting screenshots from the Terrorism Research Center on September 11, 2001. Here is a message that Neal Pollard and I wrote that greeted our visitors when they first hit the terrorism.com domain. Having founded the company on the 1st anniversary of the OKC bombing we were sensitive to drawing too many conclusions too [...]
While I’m not usually one to dwell on the significance of a new decade, 2010 seems worth reflecting on. This post covers a hodge-podge of issues keeping in tune with this blog’s general charter of technology, security, and obscurity. Hopefully, there’s something for everybody. When I first started working national security issues, 2010 was one [...]
For some reason, this attack made me laugh. An interesting blending of meatspace and cyberspace. Hackers in Grand Forks, North Dakota of all places have hit on a clever Trojan Horse: using a fraudulent parking ticket to direct unsuspecting motorists to their virus laden websites. The scam works like this: You come back to your [...]
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The reliance on computers to operate key infrastructures has created a tunnel of vulnerability previously unrealized in the history of conflict. I first wrote that sentence in 1993 as part of my M.A. thesis on information warfare and my thesis adviser made me remove it for being “overly sensational”. Final revenge was mine, however, when [...]
Yesterday was my last day of employment at the Terrorism Research Center/TIS. As an original co-founder of TRC in 1996 and it’s only active President and CEO, I was able to grow the company beyond any of the expectations we originally had. It has been a fun and tremendously rewarding experiencing that will serve as [...]
Another good article on Gray Goose in the Washington Post.
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