Intelligence Agency Calculus The “ShadowBrokers” dump of an NSA firewall ops toolkit continues to generate page views and outrage about how national intelligence agencies handle software vulnerabilities. This post won’t address that issue, but rather look at the sort of mind game calculus that goes on between the intelligence services. This international level mind game includes […]
Completely Wrong
Between Lies and Bad Analysis A well respected author with a lot of knowledge of the NSA has written an article for Reuters speculating that the ShadowBrokers “leak” was from “another Snowden.” It was not. Although I respect the work that Mr Bamford has done in the past in analysing the NSA, his Reuter’s article is […]
Cyber Security Motivations Guessing Game
Can we determine what drives infosec and does it matter? There was a discussion on Twitter about what motivates media attention to infosec, and what does it reveal about the industry, countries, markets and players? This talk was sparked by @agelastic asking why media attention to APTs is so one sided via both volume (Western media) […]