In the days following the latest Facebook scandal, in which we learned that Cambridge Analytica collected and misused the personal data of potentially 50 million American Facebook users, we have seen: A large social media […]
GitHub Hit with Largest DDoS in History
On February 28th, 2018, GitHub reported that it experienced the largest DDoS attack on record, with a maximum volume of 1.35Tbps. The GitHub Attack Process Many applications use a memory caching system called “memcached“. Administrators […]
Using Google Street View to Infer Population Demographics
Researchers at Stanford recently published a paper exploring the harvesting of demographic information from an unlikely source: Google Street View. By using a method of deep learning called “Convolutional Neural Networks”, the researchers successfully determined […]
Extreme Weather, Cyber Attacks: Are You Ready?
Extreme Weather WILL happen. Cyber Attacks WILL happen. WILL You be Prepared WHEN they strike?? In this blog, I compare cyber threats and natural disasters to explain why a cybersecurity strategy is an important component […]