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.

Black Hat: The Exposed

August 23, 2018 by Marc Handelman in Blatant Stupidity, Cyber Cyber Cyber Cyber

News, via Ionut Ilascu, writing at Bleeping Computer, of an apparent Black Hat Attendee Data Leakage SNAFU. Who needs so-called Cyberthis or Cyberthat, when information security's premier event can't safeguard the attending information security professional's data? The flaw was discovered by NinjaStyle in a superb blog post: 'How I Hacked BlackHat 2018: Enumerating registered BlackHat attendees with the BCard API'. Security: Heal Thyself. H/T

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!

The Best Strategy for Cyber-Conflict May Not Be a Cyber-Strategy →

May 01, 2018 by Marc Handelman in Electronic Warfare, Information Security, Information Warfare, Information Operations, Cyber Cyber Cyber Cyber, Cyber Cyber Cyber, Cyberwar, Cyberthis Cyberthat

Terrific post at War On The Rocks, with an intriguing theory: The Best Strategy for Cyber-Conflict May Not Be A Cyber-Strategy, via Benjamin Runkle, . There's that pesky 'Cyber' thing again... At any rate, the discussion in this case, revolves around the leveraging of electronic, computational information warfare (perhaps also known as cyberwar) by the previous administration (President Obama). Elected (of course) - as today's Must Read, and watch out for 'them cybers'!

'We will respond in a time and place and manner of our choosing, and when we do so, we will consider a full range of tools, economic, diplomatic, criminal law enforcement, military, and some of those responses may be public, some of them may not be. One analyst derided the vice president’s pronouncements on the topic as “Biden threatening to threaten Russia.”' - via Benjamin Runkle at War On The Rocks