After claiming for several years that medical devices need more security and ICT security, and after remembering to everyone that Dick Cheney remote controlled pacemaker has been disabled for all the time he has been US vicepresident, it is nice to see that our perspective is becoming popular (or at…

This question resulted in the definition of the Belfer National Cyber Power Index (NCPI) that measures 30 countries cyber capabilities in the context of 7 national objectives that countries pursue using cyber means. These 7 objectives are: 1. Surveilling and Monitoring Domestic Groups; 2. Strengthening and Enhancing National Cyber Defenses; 3. Controlling…

To explain this concern we can recall that current national and European cyber security legislation classifies the networks that distribute electricity, gas and water as critical infrastructure and requires severe security requirements for the ICT/OT networks that supervise and control these infrastructures. The reason is fairly obvious, a successful attack…

Most OT systems include legacy equipment not designed to be connected to the internet nor defend against malicious cyber activities. This is particularly worrying because more and more utilities, petrochemical installations, factories and so on are remotely managed. Hence, several activities are executed over the web using an IT network…

According to this curve, in 2017 more than 40% of US heterosexual couples met online. This confirms Marc Andreessen prediction that ‘software is eating the world’, and everything we are doing is done by interacting with some piece of code running on some piece of hardware. In most cases, we…

Last month Garmin has been the target of a successful ransomware attack that temporarily took offline most of the company servers. Hence, most of the services it offers have been unavailable. It later claimed it was the victim of a cyberattack without offering specifics about what caused it. …

It is very significant that just when Twitter is targeted by an attack enabled by the stealing of credential of some of its employees, U.S. prosecutors have filed a superseding indictment in federal court against two former Twitter employees for allegedly spying on dissidents on behalf of Saudi Arabia. The…

According to the NYT and to Wired, Graham Ivan Clark, 17, was charge with 30 felonies and arrested in his Tampa home early Friday and two other peoples have been charged because authorities says it ran a scam scheme that targeted the accounts of celebrities, including the accounts of celebrities…

On July 30th, 2020 the EU Commission has imposed restrictive measures against six individuals and three entities responsible for or involved in various cyber-attacks. These attacks include the one against the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and those that are known as ‘WannaCry’, ‘NotPetya’, and ‘Operation Cloud Hopper’. …