The Security Ledger

JULY 10, 2018

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ForAllSecure

MAY 12, 2020

As a young professor, I spent 4 weeks every summer visiting these sites as part of the (unremarkably named) Computer Science Study Group , a research program run by DARPA and the Institute for Defense Analysis. Did I also mention that they let me take MILAIR (Military Aircraft Transportation)? The B2 bomber. Special operations command.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 12, 2020

As a young professor, I spent 4 weeks every summer visiting these sites as part of the (unremarkably named) Computer Science Study Group , a research program run by DARPA and the Institute for Defense Analysis. Did I also mention that they let me take MILAIR (Military Aircraft Transportation)? The B2 bomber. Special operations command.

Marketing 52

Marketing Cybersecurity Computer and Electronics e-Discovery 52

ForAllSecure

MAY 12, 2020

As a young professor, I spent 4 weeks every summer visiting these sites as part of the (unremarkably named) Computer Science Study Group , a research program run by DARPA and the Institute for Defense Analysis. Did I also mention that they let me take MILAIR (Military Aircraft Transportation)? The B2 bomber. Special operations command.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 4, 2022

He told her he really wanted to create faster planes so that he could sell them to the US military. By the end of 1940, the two inventors sent their rudimentary sketches to the National Inventors Council, the Clearinghouse for Military and defense invention submitted by civilians, the council encouraged them to continue their work.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Our computers are vulnerable, and increasingly so are our cars, our refrigerators, our home thermostats and many other useful things in our orbits. Personal devices connected to the internet—and countries where they are in high use, such as the United States—are especially at risk. Targets are everywhere.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2020

Russian military accessed Chancellor Angela Merkel’s emails in 2015 hack (unknown). Students and children at risk after Mathway credentials stolen (25 million). Advanced Computer Software Group exposed data of 190 law firms (10,000). Tesla has been getting rid of computers without wiping the hard drives (unknown).

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

CBS: A computer security researcher was kept off a plane for suggesting on social media that he could hack into the planes control system. One of the biggest risks is physical access to an airplane. The airline industry wrote it off as an unlikely scenario. So one security researcher decided to poke the tiger. Here’s CBS news.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 21, 2024

With Google’s WPS, a wireless device submits a list of nearby Wi-Fi access point BSSIDs and their signal strengths — via an application programming interface (API) request to Google — whose WPS responds with the device’s computed position. UMD Associate Professor David Levin and Ph.D

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2018

-based tech firm to secretly embed tiny computer chips into electronic devices purchased and used by almost 30 different companies. The chips were alleged to have spied on users of the devices and sent unspecified data back to the Chinese military. In a nutshell, the Bloomberg story claims that San Jose, Calif.

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Data Matters

MAY 29, 2018

should understand that “the costs to them… will be so high that they will simply consign all their cyberwarfare plans to their computer memories to gather electronic dust.”. Consistent with his background in arms control and military affairs, this op-ed reflects a focus on the national security aspects of cybersecurity.

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