“Threat of cyber war is overhyped”– Bruce Schneier
This month’s Ostrich Award would have to go to Bruce Schneier for his opinion piece on CNN.com. In it, he states that he’s seeing a power struggle in the US government about who’s in charge of Cyber...
View ArticleDutch government to design Cyber Defence doctrine
In the past I’ve always said that the Dutch government needs to do more in the area of Cyber Warfare / Cyber Security because there didn’t seem to be too much going on. Our Defence department didn’t...
View ArticleDebating Cyber Warfare – More Questions from .GOV (Part II)
In continuation of the series I promised you on high-level debates surrounding Cyber Warfare, here is the next article in a series of three. This article will be the longest in the series due to the...
View ArticleCyber – Boundless Nonsense
In the Cyber industry, there is much to gripe about. We have a lot of very vocal experts out there, and roughly the same amount of opinions as there are experts. Most of the times, the differences of...
View ArticleCorrelating and Escalating Cyber
On September 20th, CNet reported on a new wave of malware called ´Mirage´, embedded in PDF´s that were distributed through spear-phishing attacks against a multitude of targets, such as a Philippine...
View ArticleThe Problem with the Universal Right to Online Privacy
(As published on Norse on April 15, 2015) A landmark decision by the UN Human Rights Council was made on March 26th to cover privacy issues arising from the pervasive monitoring by the UK and the US,...
View ArticleThe Right to Strike Back
As published on Norse on June 26, 2015. Last week, at the HiP Conference in Paris, there was a debate on whether or not it should be allowed to strike back when you are being hacked. Currently,...
View ArticleMissing in Action: Cyber Dictionary?
As published on Norse on September 22nd, 2015. I recently stumbled over an old issue that has shown no signs of being resolved: the lack of a normalized lexicon on Cyber Security. We can’t seem to...
View ArticleCyber Cease-Fire: US v. China
As published on Norse on October 6th, 2015 Interesting times indeed, now that the outcome of Chinese president Xi Jinping’s two-day visit to the White House last week has been made public. According...
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