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Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Cybercrime deterrence begins with metrics

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The importance of metrics to crime deterrence would appear to be both critical and obvious and yet there is clearly a large cybercrime met...
Friday, August 30, 2019

Potentially malicious use of QR codes and NFC chips

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Like any technology,  QR codes and NFC chips can be abused and misused for selfish or criminal purposes. I was reminded of this by a recen...
Thursday, August 08, 2019

DEFCON III flashback: why hacking sucks

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My session at DEFCON III back in 1995 has lived on as an audio recording (.m4b). Just scroll down this page: DEFCON III Archive . The title...
Monday, August 05, 2019

Experienced vendor-neutral panelist available to talk cybersecurity, cybercrime, data privacy, and more

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Need a panelist who talks well with others? (Updated January, 2024)   You have this great idea for a panel discussion at a conference, but t...
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Friday, July 12, 2019

The big news from where I am, which will soon be somewhere else

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Dateline San Diego, California, July 12 : Today is my last day at ESET , the company that I have worked for since 2011, and from which I am...
Monday, April 15, 2019

Dark markets, threat cumulativity, siegeware, and a cybercrime barometer

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This is an update on five parts of my research and writing so far this year. The first part built on a suggestion from ESET PR Manager  Anna...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

It's official: I'm an award-winning technologist

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Earlier this month I was honored to receive the CompTIA Tech Champion Award, "recognizing leaders focused on driving innovation, job gr...
Saturday, February 16, 2019

Risk assessment and situational awareness: minding the gender gap with the elevator question

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Consider this: a man and a woman get into an elevator. Which one is doing risk assessment? I've been posing this question to random gr...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

How serious is the cybercrime problem in America?

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The short answer to "how serious is the cybercrime problem in America?" is: Way more serious than our government seems to realize....
Sunday, August 12, 2018

What does threat cumulativity mean for the future of digital technology and cybersecurity

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In recent years, most of my presentations about cybersecurity have included a slide titled "Security is cumulative". I made the ...
Sunday, May 06, 2018

Conversation starter for cybersecurity and workforce networking events

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Suppose you work in cybersecurity and/or workforce development and you find yourself talking to other people in those fields, maybe during...
Friday, February 02, 2018

Cybersecurity and data privacy research: a modest eight piece portfolio

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Research that I have done in cybersecurity and data privacy over the last few years has borne fruit in a number of different places so I w...
Thursday, December 21, 2017

Cybersecurity, risk perceptions, predictions and trends for 2018

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A quick update on research into Americans' perception of risks related to digital technology, as well as some predictions for cybersecur...
Saturday, September 09, 2017

Steps to take now Equifax breach has affected almost half of adults in US

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The Equifax security breach, in which "identity theft enabling data" was stolen from a company that sells identity theft protect...
Sunday, July 09, 2017

US-Russia cybersecurity talks: right script, wrong actors?

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Should the US and Russia hold talks on cybersecurity? A lot of people are shouting "No!" and I think I understand why, but in my o...
Saturday, May 27, 2017

Malware prophecy realized: WannaCry, NSA EternalBlue, CIA Athena, and more

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You probably noticed massive news coverage of the recent outbreak of malicious code called WannaCryptor, WannaCry, Wcry, and other var...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

WannaCry ransomware: mayhem, money, scenarios, hypotheses, and implications

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I think my ESET colleague Michael Aguilar had the best opening for an article on Friday's epic WannaCry ransomware outbreak: "Tha...