Sony, the NSA, and the Next Big Intelligence Failure
"(T)ranslation and analytical errors made by the American SIGINT analysts—errors that convinced the naval task force and national authorities that the North had ordered a second attack on August 4, and...
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A Critical Review of Tom Rid and Ben Buchanan's "Attributing Cyber Attacks"
Thomas Rid and Ben Buchanan recently tackled the problem of attribution in cyber attacks in "Attributing Cyber Attacks", an academic paper published by Taylor & Francis. I don't know Ben Buchanan...
View ArticleFBI Director Comey's Single Point Of Failure on Sony
FBI Director Comey laid his entire agency's credibility on the line today at an FBI sanctioned cybersecurity event in New York City where he provided new information on the Sony hack:“In nearly every...
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Hacker Aids Ukrainian Intelligence Colonel Arrested For Fighting Corruption
Ukraine's revolution isn't easy to understand. Some Russians who live there want the old pro-Russian regime back and have aligned themselves with the Putin government. Most Ukrainians want their...
View ArticleA Ukraine Anti-Corruption Policeman's Appeal For Justice
"I don’t really know, if I have any possibility to appeal to Nation again, if I will be alive, I don’t know, but I beg you to take a chance to change the situation in the country." - Lt. Col. Eogor...
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Mercenary Hacker Crews Offering Espionage-as-a-Service Are On The Rise
We published our new report on Espionage-as-a-Service today. Here's a copy of the press release along with a link to the report itself.MCLEAN, Va., Jan. 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Although the Sony...
View ArticleNSA Docs Show Almost No Access To North Korea Before 2010, And Limited Access...
“We lack uniform agreement on assessing many things in North Korea” - DNI James Clapper (2013)According to the same NSA document released yesterday by Der Spiegel and quoted by the New York Times,...
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I'm Looking For A CEO with Enterprise Sales Experience
As part of our latest funding round (pre-Series A), I need to find a CEO to run our new Herndon, VA office and build a sales and marketing team. The ideal candidate has both startup and enterprise...
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Announcing our 1st Suits and Spooks All Stars event at Soho House NYC (June...
We've held 10 Suits and Spooks events since 2011. Who have been some of your favorite speakers?Beginning July 1, 2015, Soho House, our Suits and Spooks home in NYC, will be closing the Library (our...
View ArticleFormer Sr. Pentagon Official Labels Sony as a Cyberwar Conflict
"Obama Needs A Cyberwar Cabinet" by Todd Rosenblum is one of the worst opinion pieces that I've read in a long time. Rosenblum has a long history in government service (DoD, DHS, Senate Staffer) and...
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The Military Charity Third Party Fundraising Scam: Operation Warrior Support
Operation Warrior Support (OWS) claims to be a third party fundraiser for military 501(c)3 charities but is not itself authorized to collect any funds on behalf of charities by the California Attorney...
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Beauty, Brains, and Bad-Assery: Suits and Spooks All Stars NYC June 19-20
With 12 Suits and Spooks Collision events on the books, I decided it was time to do our very first All Stars event featuring the best of the best of the several hundred speakers that we've had in the...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Premera Blue Cross CEO Jeffrey Roe
22 March 2015Dear Mr. Roe,My wife and I were Premera Blue Cross customers during my tenure with Microsoft. During that time, we both had surgeries done and she has a long history of medical treatments....
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Cyber Security Startup? Pitch Our Attendees At Suits and Spooks NYC.
If you've got a cyber security startup and want ten minutes to pitch 80 influential decision makers in between speakers like Dan Geer, Christofer Hoff, Joe Fitzpatrick and David Kilcullen at our New...
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Regarding FSB, Forget Kaspersky Lab. Check out Group-IB Instead.
Bloomberg's piece on Kaspersky Labs' ties with its own nation's security services is such a non-story that I'm surprised that journalists as good as Michael Riley even ran it. What do you expect from a...
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Cyber Threat Intelligence: More Threat Than Intelligence?
This article proposes that commercial cyber intelligence products have multiple flaws which make it unreliable for use by the U.S. government, and that it falls upon the government to address those...
View ArticleAEI - Norse: Subverting Cyber Security Research For Political Fear-Mongering
"I was recently invited to participate in a cyber security dinner discussion by a few members of a well-known Washington D.C. think tank. The idea was that we could enjoy a fine wine and a delicious...
View ArticleSignature-based Intelligence Resulted In Tragedy: A Lesson For Cyber Intel...
The New York Times reported yesterday that a drone strike mean't to kill four Al Qaeda terrorists also killed two hostages that no one knew were there. This tragedy also revealed that drone operators...
View ArticleDan Geer: What Will Cyber Offense and Defense in 2020 Look Like?
I've commissioned Dr. Daniel Geer, the CISO of In-Q-Tel, to give a one hour talk at Suits and Spooks NYC on June 19 on what cyber offensive and defensive operations of the future might look like in...
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How To Attend Suits and Spooks NYC or DC For Free
Suits and Spooks isn't like any other security conference, which anyone who has attended will tell you. One of the ways that it's different is that you can become a member and receive many of the...
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