On Wednesday, a hacker accessed 130 prominent Twitter accounts including that of Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and the most followed Twitter account on the planet – Barack Obama – to promote a bitcoin scam. This force Twitter to shut down verified Twitter users’ accounts for…
The Russian’s use of social media platforms to influence the 2016 election and the fallout from Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal has triggered calls for regulation of the tech sector, but with no proposals emerging. Earlier this month, former acting-Commerce Secretary Cameron Kerry called for reviving the Obama-era Privacy Bill of Rights. Enter Senate Intelligence Committee…
The National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) advises the Department of Homeland Security on cyber security and infrastructure protection. The NIAC has recently warned that dramatic steps were required to prevent a possible “9/11-level cyber attacks”. On August 21st, seven of the NIAC’s 27 members resigned en masse, claiming President Donald Trump and his administration is not adequately…
NotPetya, Trump and a Cyber Katrina The Dangers of a President Who is AWOL on Cyber Attacks In May the WannaCry ransomware attack hit approximately 400,000 computers in 150 countries. Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts some portion of your computer files, demanding payment by the victim via Bitcoin to regain access. WannaCry was…
Following its call earlier this year for a Digital Geneva Convention, to address the growing threat of state sponsored cyber attacks. Microsoft released a paper about cyber security norms for nation-states and the global information and communications technology (ICT) industry. Of particular note is the paper’s call for the equivalent of an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)…
Microsoft President Brad Smith has called for a Digital Geneva Convention to address the growing threat of state sponsored cyber attacks. The time has come to call on the world’s governments to come together, affirm international cybersecurity norms that have emerged in recent years, adopt new and binding rules and get to work implementing them. In…
In connection with the upcoming Cyber Law & Business Report segment on Russian cyber attacks, below is a timeline of significant Russian-connected cyber attacks. 2007: Estonia Web War I After Estonia moved a Soviet war memorial, in April 2007 Russia launched a three week denial of service attack against one of the most connected countries…
Tonight the film Zero Days premiers at the the Berlin Film Festival and it is already making headlines. As described in the BFF brochures: The new film by Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney explores the phenomenon of Stuxnet, a self-replicating computer virus discovered in 2010 by international IT experts. Evidently commissioned by the US and…
China’s President Xi Jinping State Visit Comes at Critical Moment China’s President Xi Jinping arrives in Seattle tomorrow for the first part of a three-leg U.S. visit. In Seattle, President Xi will deliver a policy address, attend a roundtable of 30 U.S. and Chinese CEOs hosted by the Paulson Institute, visit a Boeing plant, dine with…
Tensions with China Increase With Escalating Evidence of Chinese Army’s Cyber Espionage Over the past two years, the United States has pushed China to be step forward and admit it was engaging in cyber espionage. Despite a flurry of reports detailing the evidence detailed below, the Chinese government has refused to accept any responsibility leading…
PRISM Fallout Edward Snowden’s leak of details of the PRISM program and more have had serious ramifications throughout the internet. Shortly after the Snowden story broEditke, the Daily Online Examiner reported that consumers responded by seeking greater privacy to the expect possible on the web Consider, privacy company Abine says that downloads of its anti-tracking…
WashPost Columnist’s Myopic Call to Repeal the Internet In case you missed it, in his most controversial column since calling for the return of the Pony Express, Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson declared earlier this week that if he could he would repeal the Internet. That is right — repeal the entire World Wide Web…
NEXT ON CLBR: (1) We navigate through the details of the NSA PRISM Program and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as well as the President’s Summit with China on cybersecurity with Dr. Russ Burgos. (see below) (2) Bennet discusses the recent Utah federal court decision in Zoobuh v Better Broadcasting. (see link) (3) We…
Cyber Cold War and Main Street Recent reports of hacking of news organizations such as the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal tied to China, Akamai’s latest threat report showing 1/3 of malicious traffic coming from China and a Mandiant report detailing widespread cyber hacking of US interests linked to a Shanghai…
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