I spoke on a Docent Institute webinar last night co-hosted by Iowa Illinois IEEE Section – R4 and IEEE Computer Society (Iowa-Illinois Chapter). The title of the talk is, “Navigating Cybersecurity and Systemic Risk in a Rapidly Advancing Technological Landscape”where I discussed #cybersecurity and #systemic_risk. Thanks to Binto George & Michael Umakor, who were co-hosts. Check out the video! You may find the video and slides here:
[November 18, 2024] Docent Institute hosted the 2024 Chicago Security Speakeasy with 60 guests for drinks and dinner at the oldest private club in Chicago. A wonderful venue for a formal pre-holiday party and charity fundraiser. Thanks to my friends for making it possible, as members of this exclusive club!
I was honored to be invited to give a presentation on November 14th in Rockford, IL for the Rock River Valley Section. The turnout was 30+ members and non-members. Click the image above for the PDF.
Docent Institute is hosting a private CISO Dinner & Charity Fundraiser for Docent Institute for Greater Chicago Area security leaders on November 18th, 2024 at The Casino, near the Hancock Building, from 6-9pm. There will be appetizers, fine dining and open bar with special bourbon tasting from NetThunder. [This event has SOLD OUT]
I think of us in some kind of twilight world as transformative AI looks more likely: things are about to change, and I don’t know if it’s about to get a lot darker or a lot brighter.
Increasingly this makes me wonder how I should be raising my kids differently.Read More
The integrity of data keeps us alive – in some circumstances fairly actually. Cybersecurity is a broad field that includes every little thing from securing networks and units to managing consumer access, detecting threats, and responding to attacks. Cryptography is solely one tool in the wider cybersecurity toolbox.
Uneven cryptography and private/public key pairs are used extensively in sensible card authentication, SSH public key authentication, and authenticating the servers of HTTPS-secured online companies. However in practice, robust modern cryptography is extremely troublesome to break utilizing current expertise. That mentioned, future developments, like quantum computers, may demand new cryptographic solutions. Hashing is effective for verifying knowledge integrity and storing sensitive info like passwords securely. By evaluating hashes, systems can quickly verify if knowledge has been altered or verify a user’s password without exposing the precise password. Since there’s just one key concerned within the course of, a secure key trade mechanism is important to make sure third events can’t get maintain of the necessary thing and gain unauthorized access to knowledge.Read More
This introduces random deviation, thereby strengthening the safety of classical cryptography in opposition to more predictable attacks. Quantum cryptography leverages quantum mechanical ideas to ensure safe communication and information safety, forming the basis for quantum-secure blockchain systems. Research have centered on the ideas of quantum bits, quantum entanglement, and safe key technology for cryptographic resilience.
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Not Like conventional web encryption where keys are ephemeral, blockchain addresses with exposed public keys become fastened targets. Google’s analysis identified roughly 6.9 million BTC (roughly 32% of complete supply) sitting in wallets with exposed public keys. For Ethereum, the risk is even more structural, the account-based mannequin means public keys are immediately seen, and the highest 1,000 wallets holding roughly 20.5 million ETH are already exposed.Read More
Cybersecurity practitioners, as defenders of information, benefit from the fact that they are, in some ways, one large team, and the sharing of information and best practices as an industry and a community elevates everyone’s ability to protect their data. The passing of experience and expertise among peers is important, but staying ahead of emerging cyber threats requires recruiting and training the next generation.
Critical Cisco Nexus 9000 Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Remote Attackers Run Code as Root
Cisco has released patches to address a critical security flaw affecting 10 Silicon One-based Nexus 9000 switches that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute code as root,
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Earlier this year, OpenAI found that a group of its AI models broke out of their sandbox environment and hacked third opens source AI platform Hugging Face’s systems.
