Most US critical infrastructure is run by private corporations. This has major security implications, because it’s putting a random power company in — say — Ohio — up against...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Far Side Squid Comic
May 14 2021A classic. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.
Read moreRansomware Is Getting Ugly
May 14 2021
Modern ransomware has two dimensions: pay to get your data back, and pay not to have your data dumped on the Internet. The DC police are the victims of...
Read moreNew US Executive Order on Cybersecurity
May 13 2021
President Biden signed an executive order to improve government cybersecurity, setting new security standards for software sold to the federal government.
For the first time, the United States...
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Book Sale: Beyond Fear
May 12 2021I have 80 copies of my 2000 book Beyond Fear available at the very cheap price of $5 plus shipping. Note that there is a 20% chance that your...
Read moreAI Security Risk Assessment Tool
May 11 2021Microsoft researchers just released an open-source automation tool for security testing AI systems: “Counterfit.” Details on their blog.
Read moreRansomware Shuts Down US Pipeline
May 10 2021This is a major story: a probably Russian cybercrime group called DarkSide shut down the Colonial Pipeline in a ransomware attack. The pipeline supplies much of the...
Read moreThis is a newly unclassified NSA history of its reaction to academic cryptography in the 1970s: “NSA Comes Out of the Closet: The Debate over Public Cryptography in the...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: COVID Relief Funds
May 7 2021
A town in Japan built a giant squid statue with its COVID relief grant.
One local told the Chunichi Shimbun newspaper that while the statue may be effective...
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