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A recent New York Times article on cyber crime told not the sort of data-breach story with which readers have become familiar but, instead, focused on vast unknowns in the sphere of cyber crime.
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The Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 U.S. elections caught the world by surprise. This wasn’t because election interference of that kind hadn’t happened before—it had, just ask the Ukrainians—but simpl...
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Bitcoin and its ilk have gotten a lot of attention recently as the speculation bubble bursts. The negative attributes and uses of cryptocurrency are substantial: Bitcoin is known to facilitate money laun...
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Anonymity does not equate to privacy or security! “An interactive map posted on the Internet that shows the whereabouts of people who use fitness devices such as Fitbit also reveals highly sensitive info...
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On Jan. 17, cybersecurity and software vendor Kaspersky Lab filed for a preliminary injunction against the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) order designating the company’s software as an “informa...
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In the midst of the holidays, readers may have missed an interesting op-ed published in the Washington Post on Dec. 25 about Russia’s continuing online information operations against the United States.
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Or maybe we need a new definition of cyberinsecurity. Whatever it is, the current U.S. government definition is outdated. But I should start at the beginning …
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Three congressional committee hearings in late 2017, with representatives from Facebook, Google and Twitter, were high-profile examples of the tide of public opinion changing against the major tech compa...
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FBI Director Christopher Wray spoke on Jan. 9 to the International Conference on Cyber Security. The text below is his speech as prepared for delivery.
Raising Our Game: Cyber Security in an Age of Dig...
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My good friend, Herb Lin, has suggested that “election interference is not a cybersecurity issue.” His point, with which I completely agree, is that Russia's meddling in the 2016 election was not the pro...
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I wrote about the Spectre and Meltdown attacks for CNN and my blog. The piece begins:
This is bad, but expect it more and more. Several trends are converging in a way that makes our current system of p...