Category: Cybersecurity

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State Dept Plan for $20 million Cyberspace Security and Emerging Technologies Bureau

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Beside the obvious, that State eliminated this program and is now re-establishing it, the question is “why?” Yes, a position and a support staff is needed to coordinate efforts of monitoring and perhaps controlling dual-use cyber technologies and cyber weapons technologies, globally.   The question would be, then, why was the position eliminated in the… Continue reading State Dept Plan for $20 million Cyberspace Security and Emerging Technologies Bureau

Information operations · Cybersecurity · Russia · cyberwar · Information Warfare

Russia: Adversary or Enemy? Depends on Your Definition of Cyber Attack.

Joel Harding

Tom McCuin / Apr 22, 2019 The Department of Justice released Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s final “Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election” on Thursday. Predictably, it won’t be changing any minds. But it does reinforce one particular point that I’ve been making in this space for the last two years: Russia… Continue reading Russia: Adversary or Enemy? Depends on Your Definition of Cyber Attack.

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REGISTRATION OPEN: Eighth Annual International Conference on Cyber Engagement in Washington, DC on April 23, 2019

Joel Harding

The agenda for the eighth annual International Conference on Cyber Engagement has been released! REGISTER Tuesday, April 23, 2019 7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Lisner Auditorium US and foreign government workers and students attend for free! On the evening before the conference, The Hon. John Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the US Department of… Continue reading REGISTRATION OPEN: Eighth Annual International Conference on Cyber Engagement in Washington, DC on April 23, 2019

Cybersecurity · Information operations · Information Warfare

Get Ready for the First Wave of AI Malware

Joel Harding

By Gunter Ollmann on April 09, 2019 While viruses and malware have stubbornly stayed as a top-10 “things I lose sleep over as a CISO,” the overall threat has been steadily declining for a decade. Unfortunately, WannaCry, NotPetya, and an entourage of related self-propagating ransomware abruptly propelled malware back up the list and highlighted the… Continue reading Get Ready for the First Wave of AI Malware

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UK Online Harms White Paper Released

Joel Harding

Anonymous expert compilation, analysis, and reporting. </end editorial> This comes as no surprise after reading the final report of the UK DCMS Committee on disinformation and fake news. Facebook’s unrepentant attitude toward the Committee was no doubt a factor in this outcome. The challenge the UK legislature will now confront is the wicked problem of… Continue reading UK Online Harms White Paper Released

Information operations · Cybersecurity · cyberwar · Information Warfare · NATO

World´s Largest International Live-Fire Cyber Exercise to be Launched Next Week

Joel Harding

Press release: World´s Largest International Live-Fire Cyber Exercise to be Launched Next Week 4 April 2019  Next week NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) organises Locked Shields 2019, the largest and most advanced international live-fire cyber exercise in the world. The annual exercise is a unique opportunity for national cyber experts to practise… Continue reading World´s Largest International Live-Fire Cyber Exercise to be Launched Next Week

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UAE Used Cyber Super-Weapon To Spy On iPhones Of Foes

Joel Harding

  From this article, I can make a few conclusions.  NSA has tools which can access iPhones NSA is using tools which can access iPhones Others, beside NSA, have access to these tools, they appear to be shared or for sale Individuals, trained by NSA, are for hire Raven, an intelligence gathering group, may or… Continue reading UAE Used Cyber Super-Weapon To Spy On iPhones Of Foes