What I'm Reading 2/25/2020

Books 


Network Forensics Tracking Hackers Through Cyberspace

Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century

Blogs / News

Fifth Domain - How the Energy Department wants to boost cybersecurity education -

Plankey said that the department is going to expand three education programs that it uses to interact with both universities and private industry.

1. making data from its CyberForce competition public
2. expanding CyberStrike to 150 classes / year
3. training up to 2000 people in Consequence Driven Cyber-Enabled Engineering

Reuters -  U.S. Supreme Court rejects Apple appeal in patent fight with VirnetX -

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear Apple Inc’s bid to avoid paying about $440 million in damages for using patent licensing firm VirnetX Inc’s internet security technology without permission in features such as FaceTime video calling. 

 Yahoo - Harvard scientist predicts coronavirus will infect up to 70 percent of humanity -

Harvard University epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch is predicting the coronavirus "will ultimately not be containable" and, within a year, will infect somewhere between 40 and 70 percent of humanity, The Atlantic reports. But don't be too alarmed. Many of those people, Lipsitch clarifies, won't have severe illnesses or even show symptoms at all, which is already the case for many people who have tested positive for the virus.

ZDNet -  Cybersecurity alliance launches first open source messaging framework for security tools -

OpenDXL Ontology, now available, aims to create a common language between cybersecurity tools and systems by removing the need for custom integrations between products that can be most effective when communicating with each other -- such as endpoint systems, firewalls, and behavior monitors -- but suffer from fragmentation and vendor-specific architecture.