SHORT MEMORY:
"As far as I know, this is the first cybersecurity incident that has led to a measurable economic impact on the American population," said Jonathan Reiber, ... chief strategy officer for cyber policy under the Obama administration's @SECDEF"
cnn.com/2021/05/28/tec…
Johnathan Reiber's memory loss is spectacular in its scope because the NSA separately made President Obama's claim:
Johnathan Reiber's memory loss is even *more* spectacular when you realize he claims to have worked for Obama's SECDEF, who implemented a truly aggressive U.S. military reorganization directed by the previous DEPSECDEF because of CYBER ATTACKS:
Yes: that's mine in the photo

I won't be the one buying a round if former @DepSecDef William J. Lynn III slaps his own challenge coin on the table

I invite Johnathan Reiber to call me if he ever again needs help with his poor memory (but I doubt he'll remember to do that)
Johnathan Reiber's memory loss is so bad that his neurons don't carry @CompTIA_PS's 2018 report that predicts the economic damages from cyber crime will top $6 TRILLION this year!
Johnathan Reiber's memory loss is so poor that he doesn't recall the year 1999 when MAJOR CORPORATIONS AROUND THE WORLD SHUT DOWN ALL NETWORK OPERATIONS STRICTLY AS A PRECAUTION -- just like #ColonialPipeline did! -- because problems MIGHT have occurred
Okay, enough misspelling his name 🙃 I had waaaaay too much fun excoriating @jonathanreiber's cerebellum.

Here's the rub:

If he doesn't know of *my* work, then he was an insular Beltway Bandit at a time he claims to have been a thought leader.

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More from @vmyths

29 May
1/7
Let's talk #attribution in cybersecurity.

I downloaded an initial letter from the other driver's insurance that *denied* my claim by asserting I failed to reduce speed to avoid an accident.

In other words: they attributed a car crash to me.

Later, for unknown reasons...
2/7
...someone other than the person who signed that letter dropped me a voicemail saying someone in their dept. requested a "re-review" of my dashcam footage.

They withdrew #attribution pending further consideration.

The next day, a third adjuster left a voicemail saying...
3/7
Okay, so I needed to call in again. A fourth adjuster told me they formally held me 0% liable. Dashcam FTW!

They placed #attribution for the car crash entirely on their client, not me.

So! What does this anecdote have to do with #cybersecurity? Well, I'll tell you...
Read 8 tweets
15 May
1/10
Dear @RobManess,

Some of your followers will remember me from the 1990s "Computer Virus Myths homepage" and 2000s "Vmyths" site.

In this short thread I'll reveal why the #ColonialPipeline "cyberwar attack" is in fact COMPLETE HYSTERIA…
2/10
Both Clinton in 1998 and Obama in 2009 hyped up cyber attacks similar to what we saw with #ColonialPipeline. "[Criminals] extort money by threats to unleash computer viruses…"

Clinton & Obama used their hype to issue flawed executive orders—

—just like Biden.
3/10
And now #ColonialPipeline has openly admitted THEY pinched our nation's feeding tube. No cyber terrorist did it!

They shut down the flow of oil as a #precaution when a cyber-mugger told their Billing dept. to "gimme all your bitcoins":
Read 12 tweets
12 May
Let's talk cybersecurity #hysteria.

1/8
Four days ago, Chris Krebs confirmed cyber terrorists had remotely shut down the east coast's lifeblood.

His tweet is why I fueled my pickup that very day with $140 of diesel at $2.67/gal at Dodge's gas station on Rt 49 in Gulfport MS.
2/8
Cybersecurity #hysteria has done amazing things over the last three decades.

And I do mean "amazing"!

It led us the knee-jerk idea for a "precautionary disconnect," which is when we shut down our operations to prevent a computer attack from shutting down our operations.
3/8
Of course we now know it was #ColonialPipeline who shut down their own operations, not the cyber terrorists--

--because they don't trust their own cyber security team.

And why should they?

I've railed for two decades on the *true* purpose a CISO serves to a company:
Read 9 tweets
31 Mar
1/22
Let's talk about how the 2,000pp "House 2.0 antivirus experiment" was in fact an intelligence report (aka "INTSUM") on the global #antivirus industry.

It began in 1999 after I'd revealed the existence of "EIS," later renamed "ADVEIS." It was an #antivirus rootkit...
2/22
ADVEIS stood for "Antivirus-Dependent Vulnerabilities in Email Infrastructure Security." I developed it in the late 1990s while working at A.G. Edwards & Sons building the U.S. brokerage industry's first SOC.

I gave a public lecture on ADVEIS, then dusted my hands of it.
3/22
But ADVEIS had rankled the #antivirus industry.

This led IBM bigwig David Chess to call my office.

I admit it: Chess is the one man I never beat in a philosophical match.

"So, Rob: you got root access from every AV company's products. What are you going to do *next*?"
Read 23 tweets
26 Nov 20
Let's talk cybersecurity.

1/7
News of COVID19 vaccines' side effects are so wild that rumors are spreading of how many #SickDays you'll burn to get both (repeat: "both") shots.

So let's compare it to the history of #computer antivirus vaccine use...
2/7
Historically, users gleefully installed #computer vaccines when they were released (typically a few days) after a deadly global virus outbreak "that cost millions of computers' lives and billions of dollars in damages."

But then users came to a rumored realization...
3/7
They said "you'll pay a severe penalty for #antivirus vaccines."

Users rumored it made their computers sluggish; that it constantly wasted their time to install vaccine updates every {month | week | day}; that it interfered with important company processes; blah blah blah
Read 7 tweets
8 Nov 20
1/10
Let's talk cybersecurity.

Specifically, let's use #hysteria to snatch the electoral college from Biden so Trump can serve another White House term:

newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
2/10
We can pick ANY blue states here; I'll pick Georgia & Pennsylvania for fun

Again, our goal is to use #hysteria to snatch some electoral college votes from Biden

law360.com/articles/12287…
3/10
El Prez can begin by collecting all the research that WE THE PEOPLE in cybersecurity use to cast our own pall of fear over electronic voting:
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