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Jake Williams @MalwareJake
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I'm torn on how to read this. There is absolutely nothing the National Guard "cyber forces" can do on election day to deal with an issue. They lack the authority to respond by force and state law enforcement would have to investigate in most cases. 1/n
zdnet.com/article/states…
I understand why governors want to do this. First, it shows the governors are serious about protecting their state elections. I honestly believe that many (most) governors want to protect their elections but feel powerless to do so. But the National Guard is not the answer. 2/n
State law enforcement is a better option for investigation. For countermeasures, we really need national level response (DHS/CYBERCOM). National Guard simply lacks the authority to do anything meaningful here. 3/3
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Twas the night before Christmas and all over the ‘net,
Not a creature was stirring except China hacking Tibet.

The IPS were strung by the egress with care,
In hopes that St WannaCry soon would be stopped there.
1/n
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While IoT devices mined the dreams from their heads.

Mama with her EDR and I with my IDS
Were ready to tackle an infosec mess.

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This thing had better work, it cost so much cash.
But gosh darnit, I can’t use it until I update Adobe Flash…

Pondering the alarms I thought “Oh heck no!”
That’s because the threshold for alerting was configured so low.
3/n
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I certainly don't agree with everything in this thread, but it is very thought provoking nonetheless. I tell clients regularly that cyber security IS warfare if APT is in your threat model. We often fight nation state hackers with nearly infinite resources by deploying a CEH. 1/n
This obviously doesn't work. When you step back and look at resources that APT groups have, it's obvious they can comrpomise almost any organization. My favorite example is the China/Bit9 example. Picture being an attacker who can't get into a top tier target. 2/n
Now imagine that you think "Bit 9 is standing in our way, so we'll 'just' go comrpomise them." Um, that's a moonshot. Ask yourself:
1. What kind of organization dedicates resources to moonshots?
2. How many moonshots do we not know about?
3. How valuable was that target?
3/n
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I'm writing a new blog post but I need some help. We have a problem in the tech industry with consent vs. informed consent. Problems with confusing the two are not unique to infosec. Medicine has been practiced for millennia, but informed consent is at best ~50 years old. 1/n
Legalese terms of service can't be comprehended by a large percentage of a user base. Even if you understand what is being collected, do you understand how it will be used? A patient can't give informed consent without a discussion of risk. 2/n
Doctors don't routinely downplay risk in a procedure. This comes from two sources:
1. Liability
2. In most cases (electives are a counter-example), the doctor has a product (the procedure) the patient needs

These do not hold true in the technology field. 3/n
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