Berto Jongman: Hybrid Conflict Security Pulse

Hybrid Conflict The Global Security Pulse (GSP) tracks emerging security trends and risks worldwide, allowing you to stay ahead in new security developments. This month we present novel developments and must-reads on hybrid conflict. Our research suggests that the international security environment is increasingly characterized by hybrid strategies that fall under military, political, economic, information, and …

Review: [Time-Based Two-Man Detect & React] Analogue Network Security by Winn Schwartau

Winn Schwartau 6 Stars – Foundation for IT & Web 3.0 Security This book is critical to the post-Western Web 3.0 new Internet and should be translated into Chinese and Russian as soon as possible. This is a Nobel-level piece of work that provides everything that Vint Cerf and Tim Berner-Lee failed to plan for. …

Berto Jongman: FBI Crisis — Playing Catch-Up on Cyber

Identity crisis: FBI plays catch-up as cyberthreats escalate Now “every field office has a cyber squad” modeled after lessons learned fighting terrorism, said Ugoretz, speaking earlier this year at a conference in Sea Island, Ga. Some field offices are being assigned as leads for specific attacks or threat actors, she said. There is also a …

Robert Steele: “I Told You So” on Both Russia and Cyber….

Former Assistant Director of Intelligence for the FBI, Kevin  R. Brock, has written an obituary for James Comey that reads very very well. James Comey is in trouble and he knows it In my view, in this order, Brennan, Hayden, Clapper, and Comey could and should legitimately face the hangman’s noose sometime in Donald Trump’s …

DefDog: Senators from Both Parties Lie to America About Russian Hacking and Role of Cyber Command (Also Known as Clown Command) in “Preventing” What Did Not Happen…

Senators from both political parties on Thursday praised the military’s cyber force for helping secure last year’s midterm elections, with one suggesting it was largely due to U.S. Cyber Command that the Russians failed to affect the 2018 vote. From experience, Cyber Command does not know the difference between TCP/IP and UDP….they are not capable …

Berto Jongman: Future IoT Needs Privacy & Security by Design

IoT Future Needs Privacy, Security by Design “A significant number of smart devices, including smart CCTV cameras, thermostats or smart TVs, are insecure by design,” said Petrus. “It’s not even possible to make some of them more secure as they’ve been made with hard-coded account names and passwords that can’t be changed.”

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 …