A Suits and Spooks Collision in Washington DC
No, President Obama didn't authorize a CIA direct action against House Tea Party members who are keeping the government closed. The "Collision" that I'm talking about is the Suits and Spooks event that...
View ArticleWho's Spear-Phishing the CEO of Mandiant?
According to this Foreign Policy article, someone spear-phished Kevin Mandia, CEO of the information security firm Mandiant, using one or more fake invoices from the company which provides his limo...
View ArticleHuawei Claims Transparency But These Facts Say Otherwise
"(A)s the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Huawei and the Chairman of the Global Cyber Security Committee of Huawei, I would like to make our company’s position clear. We can confirm that we have never...
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Carmen Medina to teach Workshop on Analytic Methods and Critical Thinking at...
As the rush to the Cloud and the aggregation of data in amounts here-to-for unheard of accelerates, the one area that continues to suffer from lack of attention is the use of analytic methods designed...
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Germany's BND Caught Spying on Afghan Minister's Emails (2008)
In light of the current tensions between German Chancellor Merkel and President Obama over alleged NSA spying, I found this Der Speigel article in the bookmarks that I keep on nation state...
View ArticleLevel 3 Communications, the NSA, and the end of the Physical-Digital Divide....
The Level 3 Communications (NYSE: LVLT) blog recently published an article entitled "Say Goodbye to the Physical-Digital Divide." It's a light-hearted, upbeat corporate feel-good piece about how...
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Russian Venture Capital (RVC): A Report on Funding Priorities and RF...
Taia Global regularly produces custom reports on foreign research and development activities in Russia and China. Our most recent report examines Russian Venture Capital (RVC), an Open Joint Stock...
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Navy SEAL Charity Fraud Graham Ware's Latest Scam
Graham Ware, a Scottsdale, AZ native who was outed (here and here) for running a fake Navy SEAL charity website has moved on to the Search Engine Optimization game. His new scam is complete with a fake...
View ArticleThe Questionable Value and Ethics of TrustedSec's Pen Test of the...
Yesterday, Rep. Lamar Smith, the Republican Chairman of the House Committee on Space, Science and Technology had four cyber security experts testify about the poor security of healthcare.gov's website....
View ArticleU.S. Gov Employee Responds to TrustedSec's Review of Healthcare.gov
After I wrote yesterday's article "The Questionable Value and Ethics of TrustedSec's Pen Test of the HealthCare.gov Website", I received an email from a well-respected employee of a large government...
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In OSINT, All Sources Aren't Created Equal
"In evaluating open-source documents, collectors and analysts must be careful to determine the origin of the document and the possibilities of inherent biases contained within the document."- FM2-22.3:...
View ArticleWhat Does Huawei's Announcement of Exiting the U.S. Market Really Mean?
Last night, my Google Alert for Huawei captured an intriguing headline: "Huawei exiting US market: CEO". The article appeared in Global Times, a Chinese paper that's part of Peoples Daily. Here's the...
View ArticleThree Suits and Spooks Courses taught by 3 World-Renowned Experts: Limited...
At Suits and Spooks events, we always have world-class speakers. But for 2014, I wanted to offer world-class training as well. For example, in January we're featuring:CARMEN MEDINA: Specialist leader...
View ArticleIf You Missed Suits and Spooks NY, Here It Is On Video
O'Reilly Media, the publisher of my book Inside Cyber Warfare, has produced a video compilation of our Suits and Spooks event. I'm proud to say that this is the first non-O'Reilly conference that they...
View ArticleJudge Leon's Three Key Findings Against the NSA that Prompted those...
“He’s very passionate; he uses a lot of italics and exclamation points,” Orin S. Kerr, a professor at the George Washington University Law School and a defender of the N.S.A.’s surveillance programs...
View ArticleWho's Defending U.S. Military Networks if the NSA and FIS are Breaking Them?
According to Der Spiegel, the NSA has been developing tools to compromise software, hardware, and firmware made by multinational corporations in the U.S. and overseas. U.S. companies affected include...
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Joining Mikko in Protest, I've Cancelled My Talk at RSA
Granted, I'm no Mikko Hyponnen and my talk was a mere 20 minutes on the last day of the RSA conference, but I think it's vitally important that those of us who profoundly object to RSA's $10 million...
View ArticleNSA's $10M RSA Contract: Origins
"For almost 10 years, I've been going toe to toe with these people at Fort Meade. The success of this company (RSA) is the worst thing that can happen to them. To them, we're the real enemy, we're the...
View ArticleNSA Limericks, Jim Bidzos' Threats, and the 1st RSA Conference
I found some illuminating and very funny quotes that depict the adversarial relationship that existed between the NSA and RSA before the controversial $10M contract deal of 2004:"There is a group at...
View ArticleRSA Boycott or Not? 3 Questions To Help You Decide.
1. Did Joseph Menn's Reuters article contain sufficient information to raise your suspicion that RSA may have collaborated with the NSA for $10M in exchange for using NSA's preferred encryption...
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