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 […]
James Harris, a fresh perspective on the crypto wars
James Harris is a former FBI agent who spent 8 years working to combat child sexual exploitation. He is also a computer guy, he codes, knows his tech, and isn’t ignorant on encryption. Jim wrote an excellent Twitter thread about the “backdoor the encryption, because children” argument. Rather than engage it head on, he contextualises […]
The term “phishing” constraints thinking
The human factor is a major component of every security environment. It is important to understand and reason about how humans can be subverted into acting as malicious agents against themselves. The term “phishing” carries too much baggage, “email” “getting login credentials”. I think to have a broader understanding for reasoning about the human factor, […]