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SolarWind, enough with the password already!

2021-02-28 by grugq Leave a Comment

This is a much delayed discussion on the complexity and nuance of the SolarWind hack. The simplistic and wrong messaging from some quarters of the infosec community has resulted in an atrocious misunderstanding of the hack in the public sphere. This has extended into the policy world as these bad takes are treated as cogent […]

Filed Under: cyber, espionage Tagged With: cybersecurity, information security

Why Backdoor the Golden Goose?

2021-01-20 by grugq Leave a Comment

Why I don’t think Huawei will install back doors in 5G telco equipment — it would be a forced error when they are poised to achieve a win that will give them a strategic advantage for years and maybe decades to come. I don’t think they want to backdoor everything. That’s a sort of crude […]

Filed Under: cyber, cyber warfare, espionage Tagged With: cyber, geopolitics, Security, strategy

On Pre Op Hackers

2020-12-23 by grugq Leave a Comment

Proper Planning and Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Penetrations I was asked for good references on pre-operation phases of hacking. I recommended Matt Monte’s “network attacks and exploitation: a framework”, and Bill McRaven’s “Spec Ops: Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare: Theory and Practice”.  The Monte book is the best book on cyber written so far. […]

Filed Under: cyber, cyber warfare, espionage, OPSEC Tagged With: counterintelligence, cyber, cybersecurity, hackers, human factor, Operational Security, Security

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