Finished The Good Shepherd. It was a pretty quick read. I liked it a lot, it felt authentic in a way that's hard to understand - claustraphobic, tiring, running on adrenaline, but feeling like you have to finish. Then at the end there is this relief and you are back to just whatever. It's a really good book.
Network Forensics Tracking Hackers Through Cyberspace
The Ten-Day MBA 4th Ed.: A Step-By-Step Guide To Mastering The Skills Taught In America's Top Business Schools
The Ten-Day MBA 4th Ed.: A Step-By-Step Guide To Mastering The Skills Taught In America's Top Business Schools
About halfway thru now. Talking about quantitative analysis. It's an OK book especially for a business book, but I don't have that much interest in the individual topics so it's dragging.
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
Blogs / News-
Fifth Domain - A key commission recommends federal cyber needs to be reformed -
Other reforms include creating a “cyber state of distress” declaration that would unlock funds from a “Cyber Response and Recovery Fund” for state and local governments. It also recommends creating “Bureau of Cyber Statistics” within the Department of Commerce, similar to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to track frequency and severity of cyberattacks on U.S. government and the “broader marketplace” to improve policymaking.
The current lack of the bureau “limits the ability of the government to evaluate the effectiveness of its cybersecurity programs and prevents private enterprises and insurance providers from being able to adequately price, model, and understand cyber risk,” the report says.
It's the Cyberspace Solarium Commission again, but each one of these articles has a little more detail.
The Verge - To improve the US coronavirus response, Donald Trump should resign -
We are facing a pandemic about which US President Donald Trump appears incapable of telling the truth — assuming he even knows it — and without quick action, a lot of people are going to get sick. Some of them will die. The president’s incoherence has reached a level that is a hazard to public health. The best thing Trump can do for the country, to speed its response to the novel coronavirus, is resign and let someone capable take over.I know I keep saying I am trying to avoid politics and coronavirus, but this was so in your face I had to post it.
Data Breach Today - Google Will Appeal Latest GDPR Fine -
Google will appeal the latest General Data Protection Regulation fine levied against the company. Sweden's Data Protection Authority fined the company 75 million kroner ($7.8 million) for failure to remove search results related to "right-to-be-forgotten" requests under GDPR.ZDNet - Microsoft patches SMBv3 wormable bug that leaked earlier this week -
Microsoft has released today a patch for a vulnerability in the SMBv3 protocol that accidentally leaked online earlier this week during the March 2020 Patch Tuesday preamble.
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Antivirus vendors said the bug could be weaponized to develop self-spreading SMB worms, similar to the capabilities used by the WannaCry and NotPetya ransomware strains in 2017.The Hill - Trump signs law banning use of federal funds to purchase Huawei equipment -
President Trump on Thursday signed into law a bill banning the use of federal funds to purchase equipment from telecom companies deemed a national security threat, such as Chinese telecom group Huawei.
The Secure and Trusted Communications Act, which the Senate passed in February and the House approved last year, will also require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish a $1 billion fund to help small telecom groups remove existing equipment that is deemed to be a threat.LA Times - In one of the last places to likely see coronavirus, disaster prep is a way of life -
Shelley, a town of 4,409 in southeastern Idaho between the Snake River and Blackfoot Mountains, is likely to be among the last places to know the coronavirus. Less than two square miles, the village of potato farmers is hours from the nearest confirmed cases in Washington, Utah and Wyoming. Downtown’s State Street is quiet most days with empty storefronts. It’s rare to have a visitor from another part of the country, let alone another part of the world.
But this is also the center of Mormon country, a community where nearly every resident is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in a state also long-known as a haven for survivalists. For Mormons, preparation for disaster has been part of the faith since the 1850s, when church leader Brigham Young told followers to store wheat to avoid winter starvation after settlers colonized the rough Utah desert.
Today, the church advises members to have between a three-month and one-year supply of food, water and cash. And it runs bulk warehouses that sell items at cost to help.
Mormons believe in self-reliance, with the church encouraging “the ability, commitment, and effort to provide the necessities of life for self and family.” The tradition comes in part from the fact that Mormons for much of their history faced persecution for their belief in prophets they say came after Jesus and, for a time, in polygamy. The practice is banned today in the faith of 16 million people, fewer than half of whom live in the U.S.The Verge - Tim Cook’s trick for making iPhones is now at risk from the pandemic -
To make a more resilient system, a lot of companies may have to rethink just-in-time manufacturing. “The sky high cost of fragility built into Just-In-Time inventory and trans-national supply chains is something too infrequently discussed,” Eric Weinstein, a managing director at Thiel Capital, said on Twitter. Resilience doesn’t show up as clearly on balance sheets as cost reduction, but it’s crucial for surviving disruptive events. Lowering costs by creating economies of scale and volume looks good most of the time, but once there’s a failure, companies don’t have many options, Köse points out. “You put yourself into a very difficult situation by believing the economics of scale are the best option for the most competitive pricing,” Köse says.
Köse doesn’t think this will be the last time we see disruptions in the supply chain unless manufacturers are willing to invest in resilience and multisource strategies
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