No electricians obviously can survive if they are indifferent to the opposite effect of ‘In-Series’ versus ‘In-Parallel’ formation, while not a few professionals who were indifferent to the same issue were able to gain global reputations in cybersecurity. Curious to know what kind of people we are talking about? —…

“USAF Official Says He ‘Misspoke’ About AI Drone Killing Human Operator in Simulated Test” https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a33gj/ai-controlled-drone-goes-rogue-kills-human-operator-in-usaf-simulated-test Discussions about ‘artificial intelligence’ are perhaps unnecessarily complicated, confused and heated up because it is called ‘artificial intelligence’, which wrongly gives the public the impression that it is a kind of ‘intelligence’ that Homo sapiens…

Five Organizational Data Privacy Risks Caused by Digital Illiteracy https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/five-organizational-data-privacy-risks-caused-digital-debbie-reynolds Digital Illiteracy is sadly found not just among the public but among the professionals who are teaching cryptography and cybersecurity. In case it is new to you, here is my latest writing on this alarming subject “Renowned Cryptographer Spreading Misguiding…

A number of people have looked to the potential of picture passwords, sadly with a big misunderstanding of their own. There have been basically two types of propositions. A. Selecting several easy-to-remember points on a big image - It is impossible for a human to remember the position of the…

Today’s topic is this article by Cristopher Foulon — https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/diving-ciso-mindmap-christophe-foulon-cissp-gslc-aws-security/ Christophe Foulon — Thanks for binging me to this educative newsletter. I would like to add the following to Current Challenges of Security Operations Resilience. “2+ Too Many Security-Illiterate Professionals; There is a global glut of security-illiterate cybersecurity…

Seriously, boss? You want that stupid password? OK, you get that stupid password https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/29/who_me Whoever wants a stupid password would get the security of a stupid password as indicated in the linked report. Whoever wants to kill the password dead would get the no-password security. Where there is no password…

It is very encouraging to see Prof Bill Buchanan, reputed cryptographer, pick up Identity and Access Management as the most important area of cybersecurity, where we are struggling to not lose in the battle with bad actors. …

I would today like to take up this article by Pia Tesdorf on FTC policy statement on biometrics https://www.linkedin.com/posts/piatesdorf_ftc-policy-statement-on-biometrc-information-activity-7068615031852027904-3U7j I assume that the problem being discussed here is common not only among fingers and eyes but among all the biometrics scans, whether static or behavioural: All the biometrics share the…

When we first came up with the idea of making use of memorable images for identity authentication in 2000, the costs on the users and servicers were much heavier than now in 2023. CPU far slower, bandwidth much narrower and memory chips way more expensive. We nevertheless progressed the development…