Troy
will not be the only security expert taking this position.
Sony,
North Korea and Cyberwarfare on RunAs Radio
It
was the story that got weirder and weirder and will likely remain the
high water mark for impactful security breaches for, well, probably
not very long given this industry! Be that as it may, the Sony saga
was unprecedented in many ways and it provoked some really
interesting discussions.
A
couple of weeks back I suggested that many
of us are working for the next Sony Pictures insofar
as a lot of the atrocious practices they followed being pretty much
par for the course in large enterprises. This to me is one of the
key lessons we should be taking away from all this – you may be
nothing more than one bad employee or one nasty piece of malware away
from your own place of work suffering the same fate.
Last
week I caught up with Richard Campbell and we recorded
a RunAs Radio episode on the hack. Whilst only a half hour can
barely do it justice, we still covered a lot and I hope you find it
interesting listening. Enjoy!
Every
organization suffers from “bureaucrats,” few more than the FBI.
The techies want to be right, the bureaucrats want to be flashy,
fast, and most of all, “newsworthy!”
FBI
may have made embarrassing mistake investigating Sony hack
A
confidential bulletin sent by the FBI to companies across the US
warning of further cyberattacks by the Sony hackers may have been
based on fake posts and messages created by a prankster.
…
But hours after the story published, a journalist who writes about
cybersecurity stepped forward and claimed that he wrote the threat to
CNN as a prank, copying another message that he found online and
simply swapping some of the words.
Mediaite
reports that David Garrett Jr., a writer for
Homeland Security Examiner, took to Twitter and posted screenshots
which appear to show that he was the author of the threat to CNN.
…
But if Garrett is to be believed, then the FBI may have been fooled
by a simple prank. If the FBI published a security bulletin based on
anonymous and unauthenticated internet posts, that's going to make it
more difficult for people to believe its other claims.
Along
with the threat against CNN, the FBI also mentioned another PasteBin
post that mocked the bureau's own investigation. If the prankster is
to be believed, that second post could also be fake.
Some
security experts have
cast doubt on the FBI's claim that North Korea
was behind the hack of Sony Pictures. If the FBI has been fooled by
an online prankster, that could make its claim that North Korea
ordered the hack more difficult to believe.
Perhaps
a project for my Statistics students?
Police
Officer Body-Worn Cameras
Police
Officer Body-Worn Cameras – Assessing the Evidence, by Michael
D. White, PhD – Office of Justice Programs.
“The
majority of this publication reviews the claims made by advocates and
critics regarding body worn camera technology and includes a
discussion of the empirical evidence supporting each claim. Given
the lack of research, there is little evidence to support or refute
many of the claims, and there are outstanding questions
regarding the impact and consequences of body-worn cameras.
Nevertheless, the available studies have provided insight into
several areas, suggesting that additional study of the technology is
warranted. However, police departments should be cautious and
deliberate in their exploration of the technology given the lack of
research.”
Interesting
resource.
Freer
and Sackler Galleries Launch Free HiRes Download of Over 40,000 Works
“Welcome
to Phase 1 of Open F|S, the complete digitized collections of the
Freer and Sackler Galleries and the Freer Study Collection. With
more than 40,000 works being made available for high-resolution
download—expanding regularly with our new
acquisitions—you can explore the Smithsonian’s museums of
Asian art from anywhere in the world, whenever you like. Images
can be used for all non-commercial
purposes, from desktop
wallpapers to artistic gifts for family and friends.”
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