Critical ThinkingHackers stole 40 million cards from Target through the login of its heating and cooling contractor, and Target's own alarms went unanswered. Part eleven of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
GhostwritingIoT expertise is invisible by design, and invisible expertise wins nothing. Here is what an IoT book can be about, how ghostwriting handles deep technical material and NDAs, and who reads these books once they exist.
Critical ThinkingA poisoned SolarWinds update carried a Russian back door into 18,000 networks, including US agencies, undetected for 14 months. Part ten of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Critical ThinkingA routine Ukrainian software update carried NotPetya, a wiper disguised as ransomware that did ten billion dollars of damage worldwide. Part nine of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Critical ThinkingA USB drive from a parking lot crossed the Pentagon's air gap in 2008 and took 14 months to remove. The cleanup created US Cyber Command. Part eight of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Critical ThinkingMore than 120 countries bought encryption machines from Crypto AG to keep secrets safe. The CIA and West German intelligence secretly owned it and read everything. Part seven of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Critical ThinkingGoing low-tech didn't save Hezbollah, because the devices were the attack. Why supply chain trust is a vulnerability for anyone who buys anything. Part six of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Critical ThinkingHezbollah traded trackable phones for simple pagers to stay safe, and the pagers were the weapon. Part five of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Critical ThinkingOnce Stuxnet escaped, the idea was free. The decade that followed brought Shamoon, the Ukraine grid attacks, and Triton. Part four of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Critical ThinkingNatanz was air-gapped, and Stuxnet crossed it anyway, on USB drives, stolen certificates, and four unknown flaws. Part three of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
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