Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Update

Amazon Update List Only Amazon Brands: Generally Duds Why the NYC Queens’ Disintegrated Preparing for the Amazon Revolution uDroppy Picks Up AWS Speed Sisense: A Cyber Intel and Analytics Vendor Joins the Amazon Bandwagon Amazon: Squeezing Elastic Pinterest Spend at AWS AWS Embraces Nvidia Server Chips Read full report.

Stephen E. Arnold: Industrial Catastrophic Sabotage Via the Cloud?

Juicy Target: Big Cloudy Agglomerations of Virtual and Tangible Gizmos What’s the implication? Forget Go to My PC vulnerabilities. Old news. The bad actors may have the opportunity to derail certain industrial and manufacturing processes. What happens when a chemical plant gets the wrong instructions. Remember the Port of Texas City mishap? A tragic failure. …

Stephen E. Arnold: UK Report on Facebook as “Digital Gangster”

UK Report about Facebook, the Digital Gangster The hot read this morning is the UK’s report about a highly successful US company, Facebook. You can obtain a copy of the report at this link. Coverage of the report is extensive, and DarkCyber anticipates more analyses, explanations, and Twitterverse excitement as the report diffuses. Here are …

Stephen E. Arnold: Deep Fake News Videos Can Tip Election, Spark Violence …

Deep Fakes: A Tough Nut to Crack If you are in the media or intelligence business, you undoubtedly already know about the potential of deep fakes or “deepfake” videos. Clips that utilize AI technology to create realistic and completely fake videos using existing footage. The catch is that they are getting more and more convincing…and …

Stephen E. Arnold: Videos on Amazon

Ignoring Amazon is risky and short-sighted. It is particularly noteworthy that Amazon is dominating the cloud and amassing a global  to local set of digital databases that can be cross-correlated in a manner that would delight any police state. Below are a four-part short video series.

Berto Jongman: Has General Vincent Stewart, USMC, Figured Out that US Has Cyber All Wrong? BRAVO ZULU!

Is the Defense Department’s entire vision of cybersecurity wrong? “What if the way we’ve structured Cyber Command and our thinking about this space, what if it’s wrong?” Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, deputy commander of U.S. Cyber Command, said during a keynote presentation at the CyCon U.S. conference in Washington Nov. 14. Cyber Command’s latest command …

Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Police State Stuff….

Amazon Police State Stuff, employees rebel, some good news (Amazon misrepresents…) I have been following the Amazon response to employee demands to cut off the US government. Put that facial recognition technology on “ice.” The issue is an intriguing one; for example, Rekognition plugs into DeepLens. DeepLens connects with Sagemaker. The construct allows some interesting …