an extra dose of shock and disbelief when he said the agency's hackers can use a mobile phone as a bug even after it’s been turned off . the whistleblower made that eye-opening claim when brian williams of nbc nightly news, holding his iphone aloft during last wednesday's interview ,...
The vast majority of Russians are very proud of their country and it’s getting better by the day. IF the West did not engineer the collapse of the USSR and sucked all the resources out of it, then life of the people wouldn’t have been as bad in the ’90s-early 2000s. And Russia...
However, seeing how these exploits primarily take advantage of vulnerabilities common to the hardware/software used by most of the digital world’s population, the resale/reuse value must be tremendous! Just like the fact that not everyone’s historical data can be analyzed in near-real-time; n...
The solution to defending against hacker threats is called INFOSEC. NSA led the way decades ago to promote and certify systems that were largely impenetrable. They then killed off that entire market by accepting the lowest assurance software and buying little high assurance software. They also rest...
InterviewPlus AI in the infosec world, why CISA should know its place, and more CSO2 months|43 RIP Mark Klein, the engineer who exposed US domestic spying ops after wiring it up AT&T engineer, and the Deep Throat of the network age, dies at 79 ...
The Interview made tens of millions in just a few days I wonder what percentage went to see it because of the media noise, or because of some sense of faux nationalism… or possibly out of gruesome curiosity… For some reason a film widely portraied as about murdering someone in cold blo...