Facebook’s Election-Week War on Accountability is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
A legacy of the 2016 U.S. election is the controversy about the role played by paid, targeted political ads, particularly…
The Last Smash and Grab at the Federal Communications Commission
AT&T and Verizon secured arguably one of the biggest regulatory benefits from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with the agency…
SC Media: Here’s a five-step security plan for industrial environments
Here’s a five-step security plan for industrial environments https://www.scmagazine.com/perspectives/heres-a-five-step-cybersecurity-plan-for-industrial-environments/ I covered the current state of industrial cybersecurity for SC Media.
About Cybersecurity Management and Expectations
A few days ago, I was contacted by a young person at the beginning of their career in infosec. Without…
Election phishing, without hook, but with line and sinker? Data breaches, and the importance of prompt disclosure. Misplaced hacktivist sympathy.
EI-ISAC reports a curious election-related phishing campaign, widespread, but indifferently coordinated and without an obvious motive. Nitro discloses a “low…
F-35 ‘Overwhelmed’ By Pilot Attempts To Save It /Corrected/
An unstable approach, a misaligned helmet and an “overwhelmed'' flight control system led to the crash of an Air Force…
Airport Hackings by Russian Group Raise Election Alarm
Nicole Perlroth, *The New York Times*, 24 Oct 2020 The group known as Dragonfly and Energetic Bear has breached the…
Tesla Putting ‘Self-Driving’ in the Hands of Drivers, Amid Criticism the Tech Is Not Ready
Faiz Siddiqui, *The Washington Post*, 21 Oct 2020 via ACM TechNews, Friday, October 23, 2020 Electric automaker Tesla has selected…
14 minutes in a “Full Self Driving” #Tesla beta test results in *6* different problems
https://twitter.com/GretaMusk/status/1320499722788999169
UK national police computer down for 10 hours after engineer pulled the plug
British police forces were plunged into chaos when the Police National Computer (PNC) went down for more than 10 hours…