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  • The Who and What of Email Security

    In the days of circuit-switched telephony, when Grandma dialed Grandpa, the phone company could easily determine that the caller’s identity was, in fact, Grandma. Such confidence melted away, however, with TCP/IP and the Internet. That is, when Kahn and Cerf decided to allow senders, instead of the network, to specify their identity, they created a flexible Internet protocol – but also one that required add-on overlays for authentication.

  • HMG Tech News Digest August 9

    Trending News on U.S. Restrictions on Huawei Tech, Pentagon JEDI Cloud Contract Process, and Digital Tech Changing the Way We Eat

  • Chained Breach Simulation

    The first time I saw signatures used to detect attacks more than two decades ago, I knew that intrusion detection systems (IDS) would become a new protection category. It was thrilling to see a new security control come to life, and I give credit to the Air Force Information Warfare Center for leading the way on practical implementation. I became so enthused with IDS that I spent a year writing a textbook on the topic.

  • HMG Tech News Digest August 2

    Trending News on Apple Shares on the Rise, Capital One's Recent Data Breach, and the Fortnite World Cup Competition

  • Tough Love for Israeli Cyber Start-Ups

    There’s an awesome scene in an old Michael J. Fox movie where he’s asked if he’s ever been to Italy. His clever response is this: “Wear the shoes, eat the food, never been.” Such dialogue illustrates what can happen when a country like Italy becomes a stereotypical caricature of its better-known products. Just add olive oil to the shoes and pasta, and for many observers – this is the sum of the entire Italian economy.

  • How China Will Achieve Global Cyber Superiority by 2025

    Daran habe ich gar nicht gedacht. (I did not even think about that). This was Einstein’s reaction when Leó Szilárd explained that a chain reaction in uranium could be used to produce a bomb. A letter was quickly dashed to FDR – and just six years later, the United States would detonate two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Had the President been too busy to heed this warning, German physicists might have altered the course of history.