In early August the Senate failed to act on a sensible, bipartisan proposal to improve the nation’s cybersecurity. With the recess days away, and with a heated election set to dominate the final months of the 112th Congress, “A Bill to Enhance the Security and Resiliency of the Cyber and Communications Infrastructure of the United [...]

By Sean Brooks I recently attended a presentation by an old colleague for students headed toward careers in information security. Dave Marcus, Director of Threat Intelligence at Intel’s McAfee, and self-proclaimed “hacker of things” posed the question, “What is hacking?” His presentation suggested that hacking is far more powerful, and valuable, to information security than [...]

By Sean Brooks Mayor Bloomberg’s decision to bar media from the ousting of protestors camping in Zuccotti Park and to restrict media attempting to cover other confrontations between protesters and police is a prime example of police forces acting outside their best interests. Instead of recognizing the inevitability of video coming out of the park [...]

By Sean Brooks Earlier this year, a hacker going by the alias ComodoHacker broke into the internal servers of Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar and stole data that compromises the ability of millions of internet users all over the world to safely access trusted websites. The American response to the attack on DigiNotar highlights a particularly [...]