Cyber attacks have taken on a new and dangerous dimension. The goal of these attacks is to manipulate people to believe a certain thing, increasingly identify with that belief, and ultimately to take actions based on that belief.

On July 21, 1969 the first human walked on another world. On December 14, 1972 the last human walked on another world. Will we reach a time when no living human has walked on another world?

A second live action version of “The Jungle Book” is coming out just 2 years after the last live action version.

Streaming analytics for analyzing endpoints and users for intrusive behavior has been around for about a quarter century, probably most heavily promoted by SRI with their extensive publications on their NIDES intrusion detection system. These 1998 notes show how I made SRI's statistics more understandable to me.

1998 notes on streaming analytics with an obvious handwritten "typo"

While the Bloomberg title and much of the article focuses on fingerprints of professional hackers, I want to highlight two other aspects of the story - the differences in rewards and experience between the executive staff and the IT and cyber security staff.

My entire career has been based on developing new cyber security technologies and products, and I would love to sell everyone the latest & greatest tech. But first, any potential user or customer should take care of many of the basic (and often cheap or free) things.

On September 7 Equifax announced it had suffered a major breach exposing very sensitive information (names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and, in some instances, driver's license numbers) on almost all Americans who participate in the economy. Unlike passwords or credit cards, this is information that cannot be changed.