Almost everyone who works in the information security industry today has seen it. Many of you were inspired to get into the field by one seminal Hollywood film: the 1983 smash hit “War Games.” No lesser personage than “The Dark …
Early on the morning of July 16, 2001 Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov left his Las Vegas hotel room with nothing more pressing on his mind than getting a bite to eat before his flight back to Moscow. Instead, he walked …
Let’s face it, hacking is fun. For a lot of cybersecurity professionals as well as black hat hackers, it’s a kind of game, one that pits intellect and skill against unknown adversaries. So for many people who get into cybersecurity, …
The baby started to fear the dark when he was three. It wasn’t an unusual fear or an unusual age for night terrors, so at first his parents went through the usual motions. Don’t be afraid. There’s nothing out there, …
Amazon announced a major expansion of its Amazon Web Services offerings in late November 2017 with the creation of the new Secret Region for secure cloud services and storage for government agencies. The Secret Region will join the 14 public …
A 2017 study found that women in cyber security accounted for 14 percent of the sector’s workforce in North America, and 11 percent globally; and those numbers haven’t changed since 2013 (Global Information Security Workforce Study). According to the US …
The data started trickling out onto the internet in the summer of 2016 and, at first, no one knew quite what to make of it. A Twitter account, which largely went unnoticed, tweeted out links to anonymous public repositories that …
There is a lot of information security work that happens primarily in the brain, outthinking your opponent and designing conceptually safe and reliable systems. In fact, you might argue that a cybersecurity pro’s most valuable tools are in his head: …
Just when you thought it was safe to use wifi again, here we go with another vulnerability in the most popular wifi encryption scheme in use today, WPA2. If you’ve been in the cybersecurity field for a while, you already …