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DefenseOne's 'Why Haven't Terrorists Hit the US with a Devastating Cyber Attack?'

November 05, 2018 by Marc Handelman in National Security, Cyberthis Cyberthat, Cyber Cyber Cyber Cyber, Cyber Cyber Cyber, Cyber Cyber

Sounds like a triple-reverse-Stockholm-syndrome-interrogatory, plus a rare reference by Michael Hayden: Note his '“These folks are not cyberdumb.” comment. All via Kathy Gilsinan, an Associate Editor at The Atlantic asking 'Why Haven't Terrorists Hit the US with a Devastating Cyber Attack?' Must have been a slow-cyber-news-day...

'“I’m as puzzled as you are,” said Michael Hayden, who served as CIA director from 2004 to 2008. “These folks are not cyberdumb.” “They use the web and show a great deal of sophistication in how they use it, for many purposes,” he added. “But they have not yet used it to create either digital or physical destruction. Others have.” - via Kathy Gilsinan, an Associate Editor at The Atlantic and writing at DefenseOne.

November 05, 2018 /Marc Handelman
National Security, Cyberthis Cyberthat, Cyber Cyber Cyber Cyber, Cyber Cyber Cyber, Cyber Cyber

Well Done, Pete, Well Done

August 16, 2018 by Marc Handelman in Security Humor, Sarcasm, Satire, Cyber Cyber Cyber Cyber, Cybersecurity, Cyber Cyber Cyber, Cyber Cyber, Must Read

Behold: A well crafted white paper, targeting security related white papers, that is apparently a blog post, and most importantly, dripping with the sweet, sweet wine of security sarcasm. Today's Must Read!

August 16, 2018 /Marc Handelman
Security Humor, Sarcasm, Satire, Cyber Cyber Cyber Cyber, Cybersecurity, Cyber Cyber Cyber, Cyber Cyber, Must Read

'He Is (As A Matter Of Course) Correct'

February 28, 2017 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, USNSA, US Armed Forces, Information Security, Information Warfare, Cyberthis Cyberthat, Cyber Cyber

Michael Rogers ADM USN, Director of the National Security Agency and Commander of the United States Cyber Command sums up 'cyber' quite nicely, indeed:

"Cyber is an operational domain in which we do a variety of missions and functions, many of which are very traditional,” Adm. Rogers said. “We do reconnaissance, we do fires, we do maneuvers. The same things I was used to as a surface [warfare] officer … I’m constantly going back to that.”

"Don’t make this thing so specialized, so unique, so different that it just gets pushed to the side. That will sub-optimize our ability to execute cyber operations, and quite frankly it will minimize or at least negatively impact, in my view, the operational outcomes, which is the whole reason we’re doing this in the first place.”

February 28, 2017 /Marc Handelman
All is Information, USNSA, US Armed Forces, Information Security, Information Warfare, Cyberthis Cyberthat, Cyber Cyber