Alex Rudolph

There's always the assumption that defence doesn't have a role when cyber operations are in play.

Canada’s digital software is critical infrastructure. It runs our country, and we depend upon it. Please consider signing my petition, asking for Canada to adopt my secure coding policy.

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Over the last few years there's been increased reporting of threat actors targeting open-source depositories and projects. It's not just North Korea and I don't think the open source community is ready.

Canadian Tech Training Firms Uvaru Inc. & Lighthouse Labs File for Bankruptcy Canadian tech training firms Uvaru Inc. and Lighthouse Labs file for bankruptcy six months after acquisition.

Two major Canadian tech training firms filed for bankruptcy on Friday.

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#canada #bootcamp #training

How did China get Microsoft's zero-day exploits? - Security Conversations Three Buddy Problem – Episode 53: We dig into news of the first-ever arrest of a Chinese intelligence-linked hacker in Italy, unpack the mystery behind […]

Thanks for the extremely kind words on the pod @ryanaraine.bsky.social @jags.bsky.social. My non paid endorsement (feel free to venmo me) is that three buddy is one of my favorite cyber pods, worth a listen every time. securityconversations.com/episode/how-...

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Luxembourg probes reported attack on Huawei tech that caused nationwide telecoms outage Authorities in Luxembourg said a nationwide telecommunications outage in July was caused by a deliberately disruptive cyberattack. Huawei networking products were reportedly the target.

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Likely some of the most intellectually rewarding material I read for my exams, but probably made worse by trying to power through it during the Summer of 2020.

Having flashbacks of reading endless South American Marxist international political economy theory for my comparative comprehensive exam.

Security professionals, academics, governments, everyone who calls about human well being: We need people to take cybersecurity more seriously!

All vendors everywhere: uh oh stinky

A very interesting case. This was just smishing, but could have a lot of other uses.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Mark Carney at a podium, flanked by Canadian flags. Behind him is Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand

Prime Minister Mark Carney announces that Canada will recognize the state of Palestine at the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in September.

Carney says this move comes amid Israeli settlement building in the West Bank and its relentless war on Gaza.

Decent overview.

What I find interesting here is the framing of "spyware" specifically. While Israel has one of the most robust private sector spyware industries in the world, would we call it spyware if the NSA deployed it?

I had a conversation about such deployments with a CAFCYBERCOM official last year.

It's not about the technical work that the National Guard will be doing, what they're good for is manpower to accomplish a lot of work.

Dont need much training to be given a flash drive and run a program.

Top Lawyer for National Security Agency Is Fired

I had so many cloud vendors yelling at me the other week that the US legal system would protect Canada/Canadians from the US Cloud Act in my latest Canadian Cyber in Context article. They could not consider the scenario where we could not trust the US legal system.

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Welcome to the Canadian defence sector

Again, why critical thinking skills are crucial in education. If people are bombarded with a constant stream of algorithmically selected content that engages them emotionally and we aren't equipping them with critical thinking skills from an early age then things like this are the inevitable outcome

This applies so much to Canada that I suspect it might be universal in defence.

It's becoming pretty clear that the CISA personnel and budget costs triggered a bunch of meetings at foreign intel agencies to amp up US operations.

That SharePoint zero-day, possible MAPP leak, sure looks like an assumed risk/move that was too profitable to ignore due to crippled CISA capacity

My personal experience with online safety was my school installing strict internet controls to Protect The Kids™, so I joined a hacking forum to learn bypasses. The users also taught me how to import drugs via the dark web. Then I got arrested by the FBI for computer hacking. It was all very safe.

YouTube video by Booksin5 At The Trough: The Rise of Canada's Corporate Welfare Bums with Laurent Carbonneau (Episode 19)

Great conversation with Books in Five about At the Trough: The Rise and Rise of Canada's Corporate Welfare Bums, my book (available wherever fine books are sold) about the history and practice of business subsidies in Canada www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqKt...

Cellular Starlink Reaches Canada, But With No Mention of SpaceX Canadian mobile carrier Rogers has conspicuously avoided mentioning Starlink or SpaceX in promoting its new satellite-to-phone service, probably to sidestep backlash tied to Elon Musk.

Looks like Rogers doesn't want you to know they're giving lots of money to Starlink

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There was a lot of discussion about why cyber didn't appear to play more of an overt role in the early days of the Russia-Ukraine war but now I think it's clear that any modern prolonged war between cyber powers is going to mean major modern systems occasionally just get wiped.

University of Waterloo computer scientists making headlines

Robert E.T. Lee

Can anyone say they know the General?

I doubt it.

One of the strangest things that's happened with Cdn universities is the belief that the institutions have a corporate identity above and beyond their research and teaching functions.

I'm already hooked. I've already added ~page of material citing the book in my dissertation. I'm going to get a lot of use out of this

Thanks! I am still fairly early in my research and haven't come across this one yet.