Differing Perspectives on Cyber Threats Ransomware is a hot topic pretty much all the time in information security circles. It is (I believe) one of the stronger drivers for better security decisions at companies (“here is public proof on an existential threat for failure”). Ransomware is also pretty uninspiring as an attack, there is no […]
Archives for October 2019
FSB deploys cyber units inside Europe (for years)
The cyber is coming from inside the EU Czech counterintelligence (BIS) rolled up forward deployed FSB controlled hackers. The hackers were ethnic Russians and ethnic Russians with Czech citizenship. They ran two companies selling IT supplies as covers for their offensive cyber espionage activities. BIS had them under surveillance for several years, during which they […]
Cyber Deterrence
Part of the “total cyber warfare” series I see deterrence against cyber is basically: cyber, diplomatic, kinetic cyber: only works if both sides have similar exposures and vulnerabilities to a cyber attack. It is hard to do a proportionate Cyber response to Laos, for example. diplomatic: all of the usual international levers of coercion, like […]