Hackback: Dumb yet apparently still a thing

So the Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act (the “ACDC” Act) is now apparently making the rounds.  The gist is that it would make it legal for someone to attack someone else provided two things are true: 1) that “someone else” is in the process...

Told you so. But pacemakers maybe not the worst of it

In the continuing saga of why the lack of security in biomed will eventually start killing people, we have yesterday the results of a security analysis of a pacemaker where they found apparently 8600 flaws — of which some are potentially deadly.  It’s an...

Where’s the love for smart contracts?

So you may have noticed that Bitcoin is on fire recently.  As I write this, the price of Bitcoin is almost $2500.  Yikes. I continue to be surprised by the escalating price of Bitcoin.  I’m even more surprised by the price of Ethereum.  Bloomberg has an...