Major David Willson is an attorney in the US Army. He has spent more than a decade providing legal advice to the DoD and NSA on information security. Yesterday at the BSides Denver conference Willson presented a paper titled “When does electronic espionage or a cyber Attack become an ‘Act of War’“. The BSides are … Continue reading When does Cyber Attack become War?
Two incredible stories. First the Telegraph reports a pet dog survived four months lost at sea off Australia. It was washed overboard in bad weather near Queensland. To stay alive, the hardy dog swam five nautical miles through stormy seas to St Bees Island. There, she managed to fend off starvation by hunting wild baby … Continue reading The Cost of Survival at Sea
I am amazed by the low-fat marketing movement. People all around me in America seem obsessed with the idea that removing fat from your diet somehow makes you healthy. From a risk management perspective this makes no sense to me. It should be common sense just from observing nature. Take the bear, for example. A … Continue reading Fat is good for us, really
Many hosted WordPress sites were hacked in April and May. GoDaddy in particular had a large number of sites affected. If you believe Slashdot the exploit triggers on traffic referred from Google. No word yet on how exactly attackers are getting into sites, but several blogs such as here, here and here explain how to … Continue reading WordPress Hack and Security Settings