Tuesday was the official publication date of A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend them Back. It broke into the 2000s on the Amazon best-seller list. Reviews in the New York Times, Cory Doctorow’s blog, Science, and the Associated Press. I wrote essays related to the book for CNN […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsThe latest iteration of the document is now analyzing activity by the Maui and H0lyGh0st groups
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsThe latest iteration of the document is now analyzing activity by the Maui and H0lyGh0st groups
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsA Dallas state agency has admitted to paying $170,000 to hackers after it suffered an attack from the Royal ransomware group. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsThe tax code isn’t software. It doesn’t run on a computer. But it’s still code. It’s a series of algorithms that takes an input—financial information for the year—and produces an output: the amount of tax owed. It’s incredibly complex code; there are a bazillion details and exceptions and special cases. It consists of government laws, […]
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State-backed hackers from North Korea are conducting ransomware attacks against healthcare and critical infrastructure facilities to fund illicit activities, U.S. and South Korean cybersecurity and intelligence agencies warned in a joint advisory. The attacks, which demand cryptocurrency ransoms in exchange for recovering access to encrypted files, are designed to support North Korea’s
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsThe tax code isn’t software. It doesn’t run on a computer. But it’s still code. It’s a series of algorithms that takes an input—financial information for the year—and produces an output: the amount of tax owed. It’s incredibly complex code; there are a bazillion details and exceptions and special cases. It consists of government laws, […]
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