Collaborate Disseminate
Yesterday, I visited the NSA. It was Cyber Command’s birthday, but that’s not why I was there. I visited as part of the Berklett Cybersecurity Project, run out of the Berkman Klein Center and funded by the Hewlett Foundation. (BERKman hewLETT — get it? We have a web page, but it’s badly out of date.) It was a full day… Continue reading Visiting the NSA
Yesterday, I visited the NSA. It was Cyber Command’s birthday, but that’s not why I was there. I visited as part of the Berklett Cybersecurity Project, run out of the Berkman Klein Center and funded by the Hewlett Foundation. (BERKman hewLETT — get it… Continue reading Visiting the NSA
A superlative bit of combinatorial scholarship coming out of St. Louis University, where Sean Hartling, Vasit Sagan, Paheding Sidike, Maitiniyazi Maimaitijiang and Joshua Carron have lashed-up geospatial sciences, machine learning, UAVs, and no-small… Continue reading When a Tree Falls in St. Louis, Will the Power Go Out?
There are multitude of reasons many companies are migrating to the cloud. Some are migrating to the cloud to aid in increasing the productivity of their IT staff, as well as the overall workforce. Others are looking to scale down data centers, hel… Continue reading When Should Your Company Think About Migrating to the Cloud?
Rideshare companies are investing in public infrastructure, but only when it helps their bottom line. Continue reading Lyft and Uber Want to Fund Better Roads…for Lyft and Uber
Presidential candidate John Delaney has announced a plan to create a Department of Cybersecurity. I have long been in favor of a new federal agency to deal with Internet — and especially Internet of Things — security. The devil is in the details, of course, and it’s really easy to get this wrong. In Click Here to Kill Everybody, I… Continue reading A "Department of Cybersecurity"
FireEye is releasing much more information about the Triton malware that attacks critical infrastructure. It has been discovered in more places. This is also a good — but older — article on Triton. We don’t know who wrote it. Initial speculation was Iran; more recent speculation is Russia. Both are still speculations. Fireeye report. BoingBoing post…. Continue reading More on the Triton Malware
In only the second known attack of the Russia-linked malware, which shut down an oil refinery in 2017, another Mideast target has been hit. Continue reading SAS 2019: Triton ICS Malware Hits A Second Victim
Is it possible to take down the internet by physically attacking its infrastructure? Continue reading Could We Blow Up the Internet?
Every day roughly 178 million people in the US travel over bridges in need of “urgent” repair. Continue reading Repairing All the ‘Structurally Deficient’ Bridges in the US Would Take More Than 80 Years