A war of ideas where you have the wrong starting assumptions is going to be a costly war. — thaddeus e. grugq (@thegrugq) November 18, 2021 Currently I’m reading “War from the ground up” which is about a lot of things, but one concept is that war is not a universal interpretive device on its […]
Iran’s Lame Cyber Aspirations Revealed
A brief discussion of this report from Sky News on some Iranian cyber research reports. https://news.sky.com/story/irans-secret-cyber-files-on-how-cargo-ships-and-petrol-stations-could-be-attacked-12364871 This reports are clearly first stage fact-finding and brainstorming, the very earliest stage of capability development. They reveal only initial cursory preliminary analysis of potential vulnerabilities to exploit for cyber effects operations. Comprehensive actual hands-on testing of the target […]
Regarding the Kaseya Attack, Some Answers
Another spectacular raid by Russian ransom where gangs prompted a series of interesting questions by Catalin. I thought it would be worthwhile to address them. Here is the thread with the questions. I have inlined them below with my responses. Some questions in regards to the Kaseya incident: -How did REvil learn of the VSA […]