Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
That headline intrigued you didn’t it? It’s the title of an essay by Bruce Schneier, whose titles are often intriguing. How about “Click here to kill everybody”, “Data and Goliath” or “Liars and Outliers”? Schneier has a great sense of humour and always gives good value as a speaker too. …
The future of cyber crime is smart contracts on a blockchain with software bugs! Dan Goodin has an article explaining how a bug (flaw) in the code for drafting a blockchain smart contract, by MonoX Finance, allowed a hacker to steal $31million from them. Really stupid “smart contract” bug let …
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This was sent to me by a fellow graduate of the Napier Cybersecurity MSc. Here is the Captain Kirk, Star Trek blog I wrote – just in case you are interested.
This is not really about Spartacus but Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous and secretive father of Bitcoin. Someone has written to Bruce Schneier declaring that Bruce is Satoshi Nakamoto. The article is worth a read. I Am Not Satoshi Nakamoto (Schneier on Security) Bruce has an explanation of the “old forgotten …
I wrote this blog to make some simple suggestions for effective security steps that business owners can take that do not take much time. The title of the blog is a quote from Kurt Vonnegut’s 1959 book The Sirens of Titan. If you look these words up in a dictionary …
