A seventy-five-cent accounting error at Berkeley in 1986 led Clifford Stoll to a KGB-linked intruder. The founding text of intrusion investigation, and still the best argument against ignoring small anomalies.
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August 1, 2023
Joel Brenner, a former NSA inspector general and head of US counterintelligence, argues in “Glass Houses” that cyber exposure is structural rather than a failure of controls: the networks that carry commercial, governmental and personal life were built for reachability, not confidentiality.
February 23, 2023
Phishing and pretexting work because they target people rather than systems — and the people they target most successfully are the ones with authority to move money or grant access. No amount of security spending closes a gap that opens when someone helpful is asked a plausible question. This piece covers the main forms these attacks take, what they cost, and the defenses that hold up in practice.